Egypt

Trip Start Aug 27, 2004

Trip End Jan 24, 2005

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Cosmopolitan Hotel Cairo

Flag of Egypt Cairo, Egypt
Sunday, October 31, 2004

The City of 1000 Minarets, the Jewel of the Orient, the Melting Pot of Civilizations; al-Qahira, the Victorious City, was founded by invading Arab armies on the East bank of the Nile during a siege of the Fortress of Babylon. Al-Fustat (Arabic for "camp" or "tent"), Cairo's first and oldest quarter, was built on the site where the Arabs camped during the siege.
I stayed in the Cosmopolitan Hotel near Talat Harb square in downtown Cairo. The hotel has seen better days, but the room prices are not too bad. If you want to stay there, do a Google Traveler Review search. The customer reviews that I have read are very accurate.

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Abu Sirr on Eid al-Fitr	Al-Azhar Mosque	Belly Dancing	Cairo from the Citadel
Coptic Church	Eid al-Fitr Feast	Ibn Tulun: Absolution	Mamluk Architecture
Mosque 101	Mosque of Muhammed Ali 2	Perfume Sales at Giza	Playing Pharaoh
Rockin the World Wonders	Sultan Hassan Mosque	Sultan Hassan Mosque Inner Sanctum	Sunset at Saqqara, Eid al-Fitr
Talat Harb Square	The Cairo Museum	The Cosmo	The Death of Anwar Sadat
The Great Pyramid	The Great Pyramid's Demise	The Mosque of Ibn Tulun	The Mosque of Muhammed Ali
The Mosque of Sultan Hassan	The Mosques of Cairo	Wait a Minute, That's Not My Baby	Zozer's Step Pyramid