Wandeling door Oud-Caïro met gids: geschiedenis, cultuur en streetfood

Het uitgebreide programma hieronder is in het Engels; de gids spreekt op de dag uw taal.

Al-Muizz is a one-kilometre street with a thousand years of buildings on it, and the best food in Cairo is sold on its side lanes. This walk does both, slowly.

The walk starts at Bab Zuweila, the southern gate of Fatimid Cairo (1092), climbs a minaret for the view over the domes, and enters the tentmakers' covered street. The first bite is ta'ameya (Egyptian falafel made with fava beans) from a stand that has fried it for fifty years.

Al-Muizz Street runs north past the Sultan al-Ghuri complex, the Qalawun complex with its hospital and mausoleum (1285), the Barquq madrasa and Bayt al-Suhaymi, a merchant's house of 1648. Between them: koshari, the national dish of rice, lentils, pasta and fried onions; sugar-cane juice; feteer, the layered pastry, sweet or savoury.

The walk ends at Khan El Khalili with a coffee or mint tea at El Fishawy and a plate of basbousa or konafa. Lunch is unnecessary afterwards. Your guide points out the honest shops if you want to buy spices or lanterns. Drop-off at your hotel, or stay on in the bazaar.