Egyptian Museum · photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0

Self-guided walking tour of Cairo

116 sights · Egypt · capital

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Cairo, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

• Architecture (76)
• Museums (20)
• History (14)
• Parks & green (3)
• Art & sculpture (3)
• Squares & streets (2)
• Views (1)

3-hour walk past the highlights of Cairo

8 stops · 4.3 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

1. Photo: R Prazeres, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 7 min walkAqsunqur Mosque
2. Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0
   🚶 13 min walkCairo Citadel
3. Photo: Thebigape at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
   🚶 1 min walkAl-Nasir Muhammad Mosque
4. Photo: Mohamed abdelzaher, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 2 min walkMuhammad Ali Mosque
5. Photo: GD-EG-Citadelle_du_Caire-map.png:…, CC BY-SA 2.5
   🚶 1 min walkAl-Gawhara Palace
6. Photo: Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0
   🚶 15 min walkGayer-Anderson Museum
7. Photo: User:Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0
   🚶 2 min walkMosque of Ibn Tulun
8. Photo: Batoul Khalifa, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 13 min walkMosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan

More well-known sights in Cairo

1. Egyptian Museum
2. Tahrir Square
3. al-Azhar Mosque
4. Mosque of Amr ibn al-As
5. Rhoda Island
6. Cairo Tower
7. Hanging Church
8. Al-Hakim Mosque
9. Al-Hussein Mosque
10. Gezira Island
11. Coptic Museum
12. Ben Ezra Synagogue
13. Museum of Islamic Art
14. 6th October Bridge

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