City of the Dead (Northern Cemetery) Cairo

Today's my final day in Cairo. Tomorrow morning I fly out of Cairo to Aswan which is in the south of Egypt for a 3 night cruise and site seeing up the Nile. It's a crying shame about the political unrest here in Egypt and it's going to get worse before it gets better. For anyone interested in ancient civilisations, old world pharaonic, Coptic or …

... , but it was really delicious. Said takes care of us! Bellies pleasantly full of koshary, Said drove us past the City of the Dead. This is a vast Muslim cemetary in which, according to the guidebook, three million people live in such poverty that ...

... taking pictures. It was awesome, we even had lunch at place for 20 cents. After leaving garbage city.. We found the city of the dead. This place is a massive grave yard that has 300 million people buried there. They say each person gets 18cm of space. ...

... Dynasty Pharaoh Ninetjer. But it was the Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) who placed Giza forever at the heart of funerary devotion, a city of the dead that dwarfed the cities of the living nearby. In order to build his complex, he had to ...

... you from" phrase. One went so far as to call Ray a "seniorita"... We took an even further walk to the City of the Dead, which is a cemetary that people started squatting in - people even started living in tombs - and now little huts and buildings ...

... people face east to Mecca (ya think...I learned that in 5th grade).  He then asked me if I wanted to have a tour of the City of the Dead, a cemetary/slum area, and I assured him no.  When I gave him 2 Egyptian Pounds (just for perspective, you ...

... at 8 and the streets are still pretty quite. So we manage to get to the Citadel without too much trouble. We pass the city of the Dead along the way where an estimated 2 million live among the tombs. The citadel is a large area but there is nothing in ...

... just to complected it has nice areas and bad areas and areas that are called garbage city and others called city of the dead (people moved into a dumb and live off it and another they moved into the cemetery.  Its got long lost ...

... in... I have so many things I want to do in Cairo, I will have to wait until we are actually there: the Museum, the City of the Dead, & Khan al-Khalili Market... Hotel: The Pyramid View Hotel Well, here we are in Cairo and I am actually able ...

... mosques, and finally visited an old market called "Hana Khalili" where we drank tea in the oldest Cafe in Cairo. We drove through the "City of the dead" on the way back to Gezira, the neighborhood where my hotel is located. I can't wait to come back to ...

... Bond movie "The Spy who Loved Me" were filmed here.   Next, we drove through greater Cairo, past the City of the Dead.  It's essentially a giant mausoleum, with a hodgepodge of single-story buildings containing the graves of the people ...