Trips To Cairo is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Edinburgh and Dubai.
What this site is trying to be
Cairo is written about as pyramids with a city attached. It is in fact five cities stacked on each other, four of which most visitors never see.
This site is as interested in the fact that Ibn Tulun’s courtyard from 879 is nearly always empty, that the working half of Khan el-Khalili is four minutes’ walk from the tourist half and a fraction of the price, and that the single most useful skill here is knowing how to say no without engaging.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
That caution matters more in Egypt than anywhere else in this network. The pound has been devalued repeatedly, most severely in March 2024, and monument prices have been raised to keep pace. Treat every figure as an indication and check at source.
Sites also close and reopen with little notice — the Grand Egyptian Museum opened in phases over years of revised dates, and collections are still being redistributed between it, Tahrir and the NMEC.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, guide, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the pyramids entry sets out exactly what you get for the extra ticket to go inside, and why the sound and light show is not recommended.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — a price, an opening time, a closure — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].