Locals like to Call Cairo „the mother of the World“.
In fact the city is a whirlpool of life and culture on the edge of many worlds.
The warren of bazaars of Khan al-Khalili stepped me into the One Thousand and One Nights. The bazaar grew up organically around a caravanserai built to serve camel-caravans from Persia and China in the 14th century.
Within the maze of winding, narrow alleys, you can find brassware, Bedouin jewellery, carpets, gold, glass, incense, leatherwork, perfumes, papyrus, silver, precious stones, spices and textiles.
No matter how many times you have seen them in films and pictures, at close hand the colossal structures of the pyramids at Giza remain stunningly impressive. There are three giant pyramids at Giza, build with a precision that even today it the envy of engineers.
