Cairo travel guides & articles
All 6 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Cairo — newest first.
The Pigeon Towers of Cairo: The Rooftop Hamam Tradition
Above Cairo's rooftops, wooden dovecotes still hold working flocks — here's where to watch them fly, where their keepers buy and sell birds, and where hamam mahshi ends up on the plate.
The Nile felucca at dusk — Cairo's lateen-rigged sailboats and the captains who've worked the river for generations
An hour on the water at golden hour, from the flag-it-down Corniche docks to the fixed-price operators and the one crossing that isn't a tourist product at all.
The City of the Dead: Living Among the Tombs in Cairo's Necropolis
Inside Cairo's Northern and Southern Cemeteries, where Mamluk sultans built tombs meant to be lived in - and generations of Cairenes still do.
Parliament of the Ahwa: Inside Cairo's Coffeehouse Life
From Naguib Mahfouz's 18th-century alley to the downtown passages where revolutions were argued into being — how to read, order and belong in Cairo's coffeehouses in 2026.
The Art of the Haggle: A Local's Guide to Khan el-Khalili
How to read Cairo's 700-year-old bazaar, price a copper lantern, and know which stalls reward a hard bargain and which don't — with the tea stops, kebab houses and timings to plan a full day around.
The Best Desert Adventures in Cairo
From quad convoys below the Great Pyramid to the White Desert's chalk under the stars — a calm, honest map of every desert trip worth taking from Cairo in 2026.