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 […]
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 […]
Head down Saad Zaghoul Street in Port Said, past the infamous Stadium, towards rarely frequented beach resorts and the open beach, and you’ll find yourself in a carnival graveyard. A […]
This is only cool for the first ten minutes, but boy are those ten minutes great. The puppeteers successfully recreate the concerts–with precise movements and timings–of the most famous Egyptian […]
A little marble cafe that is dusty and gray with 4 foot tall fake bronze busts of Egypt’s lady’s head, her bejeweled sunglasses, and really unattractive paintings of her singing. […]
If David Lynch had wanted to set a movie in Egypt, he would have picked the Virginian for all the smoky bar scenes. But more importantly, this cafe has the […]
I don’t know where she gets ’em, but “The glasses lady” is sweet and jolly, and always knows exactly what funky, plastic frames will look good on your face (and […]
I generally sum up this place in four words: happy people, sad animals. It’s fun to see hundreds of families having picnics, letting their kids run around and get their […]
Behind the Panorama, is Egypt’s best bowling alley. Featuring neon lights, stained carpet, and cheap pizza, it mimics the American suburban version. If you’re lucky, you might get to meet […]
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 […]
The National Military Museum takes up the former palace of Muhammad Ali, widely seen as the founder of modern Egypt, whose dynasty lasted from 1805 until 1952. The museum was […]