Cairo

Cairo: A city of extremes (1826 words)
by steerpyke - written on 08.01.06 (Very useful, 209 readings)
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How can I attempt to sum up the unique qualities of a city like Cairo within the confines of a short review? Well the answer is I can't, not to the degree that I would like, but if this brief snap shot gives you some idea of the glorious diversity of this wonderful city then that is a worthy enough goal. It is a city that sits with one foot in the modern cosmopolitan world and the other in a timeless past and the two seem to co-exist and merge in a truly remarkable way. It is heaving with life, volatile, polluted and boisterous, with an intensity that both exhausts and invigorates the visitor. As I spent only a few days in the city I can only attempt to whet your ...

The less glamerous side of Cairo (714 words)
by livelifeandsmile - written on 25.07.02 (Very useful, 45 readings)
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Once again I went travelling in 2001 as part of a charity group. This meant that I was able to see a little more than the average tourist does of the real Cairo and that area. Although I feel sure we only scratched the surface of life out there this is what I experienced. Attached to Cairo are three 'villages' Mottamdia, Macattum and Helwan. A mixture of badly built brick homes and corrigated iron huts, these places are the homes of the rubbish collectors of Cairo. The majority of the polutaion of these places is coptic. This is a type of orthodox Christian and becuase of their religion these people did not used to be able to work. So they ...

Cairo: Just a Bunch of Bricks (1467 words)
by Jon V - written on 21.01.02 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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Think of Egypt and it conjurs up an image of the Great Pyramids. A spectacular testament to the ability of mankind. Steeped in history, they are the most revered and recognized Wonder of the Ancient World and have for centuries baffled countless numbers of tourists, archaeologists and scientists courtesy of their sheer being. I had been looking forward to visiting Cairo months beforehand and the journey itself was far from being without incident. I stayed in the southern Egyptian city of Hurghada. A relatively new resort quite isolated from the tourist areas of Luxor and Cairo, Hurghada draws tourists primarily for the coral reef located closely ...