The Postal Museum
Hands down, my favorite museum in Cairo. Located in the main Post Office Building in Ataba, this museum chronicles not only the history of the Egyptian Post, but also the […]
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The Denshawai Museum
Why would we put a closed museum, hours from anywhere else, on our list of places to go in Egypt? Because the experience is worth it. This is a huge […]
October War Panorama
In 1983, President Hosni Mubarak visited Pyongyang in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He met Kim Il-Sung, and the Korean leader agreed to furnish the artists who would depict […]
Sound and Light Spectacular from Pizza Hut
The Sphinx (played by no other than Alec Guinness) narrates the fantastic, florescent story of the pharaohs. His wise voice echoes throughout Giza as the pyramids are illuminated in purple, […]
Dr. Ragab’s Pharaonic Village
Why visit the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings when you can take a step back in time and experience them as they really were? Why read about ancient […]
Mummified Crocodile Museum
Opened in 2011, this is not only an amazing place to see numerous, massive crocodiles unwrapped in a glass room like a contemporary art museum oddity, and a set of […]
The Museum of Agriculture
Built in the late 1950s during the time of the short lived United Arab Republic, when Egypt and Syria were one country, this is, by far, the largest, dustiest, most […]
