Lonely Planet Cairo

by Andrew Humphreys

Book Overview

This guide to Cairo includes in-depth coverage of Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic and modern sights, including itineraries and walking tours. There are illustrated sections on ancient Egyptian gods,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864425481
• ISBN13: 9780864425485
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Don't Leave Home Without It

We had five travel books going into a one week trip to Cairo last month. After one day we realized the quality of this guide and tossed the others back in the bag. We stayed in the heart of Islamic Cairo, so the detailed information on that part of the city was especially helpful. There are even several walking paths that the author maps out to help you make the most out of your sight seeing. Other guides might have a lot of colorful pictures, but the quality of information is not even comparable. Several pages started falling out of the guide by the end of our trip because of overuse!p.s. I think we had the 2nd edition.

Great guide

This guide is excellent. I lived in Cairo for a year and this book gives you a lot of "inside" information for anyone who wants to thoroughly explore the city.

Good to have, but not as your only guide

During our recent trip to Egypt, we found this guide to be extremely helpful. Its information on lodgings, restaurants, and sights is unmatched by other guides. We found it had slightly more information than Lonely Planet Egypt, but we could easily have gotten by with the latter. It *is* nice to have the smaller volume to carry around in Cario, though. If you get only one guide, make it the Lonely Planet Egypt (unless your plans only include Cairo). If you are spending significant time in Cairo, it's probably worth springing for the smaller volume, too.

This is the best travel guide I have ever used.

This guide is the most accurate and well-written travel book that I have ever purchased. I took it everywhere. It honestly told me what to expect - good and bad. I am certain that my positive travelling experience would have been different without it. Please buy this book over its rivals it is indispensible!