Welcome to Cairo-overnight with Mohamed Bahaa

 

 

Cairo (“el Qaheera” in Arabic) is not just the capital city of Egypt , it's also the industrial and commercial heart of this gateway country which lies at the junction of Europe, Africa and Asia .

Though by western standards Egypt and Cairo might seem alien, Women walk the streets without veils if they choose, despite its predominantly Muslim population, own cars and have jobs.

Coptic (eastern orthodox Christian) churches mingle with Arabic neighbourhoods, nestling up against coffee shops, between mosques, and overlooking parks, highways and – to the north of the city –  agricultural areas fertilized since time immemorial by the fertile waters of the Nile .

For the traveller, Cairo is a daunting city at first – the hustle, bustle and sheer noise starts the moment you arrive into the notoriously confusing Cairo Airport and step out onto a street filled with taxi and minibus drivers playing their trade and offering you ‘bargain' rides to wherever you wish to go.

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Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphs as a royal enclosure. It replaced Fustat as the seat of the government. It later came under the Mamluks, was ruled by the Ottomans 1517 to 1798, and briefly occupied by Napoleon. Muhammad Ali of Egypt made Cairo the capital of his independent empire from 1805 to 1882, after which the British took control of it until Egypt attained independence in 1922.

Cairo has a population of about 8 million people, according to the 2006 population census. The number of inhabitants was about a million higher at the time of the census, but this was adjusted downwards on the 17th of April 2008 when the new government of Helwan was created from parts of the old Cairo government. Cairo 's metropolitan has a population of about 17.8 million people

Cairo is  the most populous metropolitan area in Africa .

Cairo became famous with the history that is shown in the Islamic City and Coptic Cairo and for the Pharonic monuments and their history

 You must visit the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx to see the history. And many of the monuments found are located in the Egyptian Museum .

Islamic Cairo consists of the Citadel, Khan el Khalili; mosques and medieval architecture. Old Cairo which includes Coptic Cairo and Fustat is in the southern part of Cairo . Gezira is on the southern part of the main island in the Nile; Zamalek is in the northern part of the main Nile Island . Giza is on the way to the pyramids. Heliopolis and Nasr City are residential areas close to Cairo International Airport still holds on to their old traditions but that doesn't stop it from being a modern and opened society.

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Mohamed Bahaa
Cairo Egypt
cell: +201001759267
m.bahaa2@usa.net
www.cairo-overnight.co.uk