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Just out of Cairo Airport, here's a surprising shot of a suburb on the ground. A lot of large apartment blocks with few signs of street life. Egypt has toyed with the idea of building new desert cities to take residents away from the Nile - and this could be New Cairo, an area that was meant to attract several million but only hosts a few hundred thousand residents. The problem is that one needs a car to live there, and most Egyptians can't afford them.
Alternatively, is this part of the purpose-built new capital city announced at Sharm al-Sheikh in 2015? Egypt's president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi unveiled a mosque there in January 2019, although no one lives in the city yet. It's being built 45 kilometres east of Cairo in an area halfway to Suez, a 700 square km zone bigger than Singapore, able to house 6.5 million people - the 'new New Cairo'!
Wherever it is, it's just seconds after liftoff from Cairo Airport. The map location is my best guess...
We had all flown back from Aswan that morning, except Shaban, our guide. We had said our goodbyes to him at the airport as he was flying home for a few days before his next job. Upon arriving back in Cairo another rep had met us and Vicky and I said goodbye to the rest of the group. Rather than spend the next 7 hours in an airport hotel bar and departure lounge as they were about to do, we had already decided and booked to stay an extra day and night back at the Crowne Plaza in West Cairo. This would give us an afternoon around the rooftop pool, a nice evening meal together and a chance for Vicky to visit two more Pyramids the next morning. These were out at Dharshur on the edge of the Western Desert, not far from Saqqara and hadn't been on the Jules Verne Itinerary. After a very intense 8 days this would be a nice way to unwind.
So this is the view of West Cairo from the rooftop pool. The concrete line across the middle of the photo is the new Monorail. Opening October 6th 2025, it wasn't yet half finished and it currently has no opening date. (HS2 Anyone?) Next to the GEM, it was the 'other' grand engineering project going on in Cairo at the time. 2 lines, The East and West Nile lines, 33 stations and 60 miles of track. When it is finished the views from it should be amazing and will be a fantastic way to see and get around the city.
Cairo, Egypt.
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The Mosque of Sultan Hassan is a massive mosque located in the Old city of Cairo, it was built during the Mamluk Islamic era in Egypt. Its construction began 757 AH/1356 CE with work ending three years later.At the time of construction the mosque was considered remarkable for its fantastic size and innovative architectural components.
Today we are helping some of the kids in the slums of Cairo. Even a simple paper airplane can brighten up the most difficult situations
Built in 1912, this Renaissance Revival-style building was constructed to house the Cairo Board of Trade and various other commercial tenants in the then-thriving city of Cairo, Illinois. The building is characterized by its red brick exterior, orange brick accents, recessed window bays on the front facade flanking a wide three-story bay window clad in pressed metal at the center of the front facade, a decaying metal cornice with brackets and dentils, paired one-over-one double-hung windows with terra cotta sills, a rusticated first floor, and large bays on the first floor that once contained multiple commercial storefronts, flanking the entrance to the building’s lobby, which provided access to office space on the second, third, and fourth floors. The building is a contributing structure in the Cairo Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Today, the building, like many of the remaining structures in Downtown Cairo, is abandoned and decaying, with the front bay window having lost many pieces of its pressed metal spandrels, the side and rear facades becoming overgrown with vegetation, and vegetation beginning to emerge from the building’s parapet. The building, located at 218 7th Street, is a common photographic subject used to represent the decay of Cairo, and is colloquially known as the "Special Offer" building after a hand-painted sign on the lower portion of the facade.