(RECAP) Cairo's oldest street

There are two ways to visit the past, the first one, that everyone knows, is using the time machine, the second one is, what #EgyptTeam discovered, which is visiting Cairo’s oldest street. If you can’t find time machine nearby, so this post is for you because visiting “Almoez Ldin Allah Alfatmi” street will surely take you 1000 years back.

Once you arrive nearby, the old and huge wall of the old town of Cairo will start to appear and the smell of the past will start to invade your nose, so it’s time to park your car and start your trip to the past. “The best place to start your visit is through Al-futuh Gate (Bab al-Futuh) as it’s easy to find parking for the car”

Egypt Google local guides started to gather as planned at 12:30pm in front of Futuh gate and everyone was excited to get behind the walls of the old town of Cairo to discover what is hidden inside.

Once we entered from the gate of al-Futuh we had to talk 750M to arrive at Sultan Qalawoon complex which include mosque, school and hospital, as this is the place from where you get the tickets that allows you to go inside 10 unique places at this splendid street. “please note that there are more places to be visited in the same street with a separate tickets but its not possible to visit all this location in one day”

When you go back in time 1000 years you will notice two things:

  1. Kings, princes and leaders who sued to govern Egypt at this time had some unique type of competition which seems to be charitable one, you will notice tens of mosques built by different key characters of the history of this part of the world and each mosque has schools and student residence and sometimes large hospitals in addition to many guest houses that used to serve water and food for free.
  2. You will also notice sense of perfection and taking care of each small detail; Almost every place we saw in the street has clear finger prints of a very talented artists who used handicrafts techniques.

While walking in this magnificent street, you will have the opportunity to watch some the most rare and delicate handicrafts arts such as engraving on copper,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alshXd26X0I
two artisans making some beautiful art at their work shop.

Before you finish your trip at the past, I would advice you to buy a memory that can remind you, in the future, about this wonderful trip. but take care because bargaining is one of the most important rules for shopping from there.

If you would like to see more photo and even some street view photos captured by #TeamEgypt so press here.

Do you have any idea about the oldest street in your town??? why don’t you visit it with your fellow local guides !!! and show us how it looks like.

Last but not least, I would like to express big gratitude to the Egyptian local guides team who came and also contributed with their photos here at this post and at the photo album as well. Many thanks to: @NABILazeez @AhmedLotfy @AbdullazizA @MarwanTawansy @AbdelrahimIsmail @MohamedAhmedAl Kilany

@Mahmoud Mekky @ERFAN_ALSENOSY @AnasMohamed @ShadySalama @samehmostafa @sherifsalem

and all the @TeamEgypt who made it successful meet-up.

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Excellent recap @Abdoado , it gives our LG colleagues from around the world a glimpse about this historical part of Cairo.
Thanks for being part of our great Local Guides team in Egypt!

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Hi @Abdoado ,

Thanks for sharing this great post of Cairo. Do you live there yourself or just visiting? I’ve never been there so it was really interesting to read and I’m sure it will be helpful for those Local Guides who are planning to go there.

What are your favorite places to see in Cairo? When would be the best time to visit with not so many tourists?

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@Abdoado

Wowwwww , amazing recap , well-done.

Thanks for hosting Egypt local guides team 10th meet up.

It was really successful meet up.

Let’s forward to our 11th meet up next month at American Corner at Maadi Public Library ESCD, Cairo, Egypt .

Best regards

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@DanniS you are welcome, I’m happy that you found it useful. in fact this post is about only 1 street of the old and historic town of Cairo, but now Cairo became huge city with more than 20 millions citizens living in it.

my favorite place in Cairo is this street and also the citadel of Saladin. unfortunately you can’t avoid so much tourists but if you avoid visits on Fridays or at least start your visits early in the morning so I’m sure you will enjoy your time.

When you are planning to come to Egypt? and I’m also curious about the oldest street or the historic part of your current town.

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Thank you @ShadySalama . And it’s always pleasure to meet you and all the other members of #TeamEgypt at our meet-ups.

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@NABILazeez I’m happy that you liked this recap. And thank you for your continuous efforts and participations. And I’m sure that the next meet-up will be also very successful.

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@Abdoado

thank you so much

best wishes

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Thank you @Abdoado for this awesome recap

it was enjoyable day with you discovering this historical street of old Egypt.

looking forward to meet with you in our next meet-up next month.

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Nice re-cape, @Abdoado . Structures and the other things looks gorgeous.

Best wishes!

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@AbdullazizA you are welcome, seeing you and the other members of Egypt team really made me happy. Inshallah we meet again and we discover new places.

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Thank you @Tanvir_Hasan . I’m happy that you liked it. And don’t hesitate to come visit Egypt and attend one of our meet-ups.

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@DeniGu did you visit this part of Cairo during your last visit?

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The castle, lighthouse and civilization, had a wonderful and excellent day.

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@AbdelrahimIsmail it was a pleasure to meet you. Hope to see you at every meet-up.

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Hi @Abdoado !

Unfortunately, I didn’t visit this part of Cairo last time, but your description, photos, and videos really convinced me that I should plan a new visit!

The buildings and streets in the old part of the city are really marvellous and so well-preserved. Was there a mosque or another building that your amazing group of Egypt Local Guides liked best? :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you for this great collaborative recap!

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When we visited this place it was a surprise, because I did not know this historical place and I have never visited it before.

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Greetings and I hope to meet with us in all the upcoming meetings.

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@DeniGu Egypt is waiting for you to come back.

In fact we spent longer time at the mosque of Sultan Barqook as the colors there are very beautiful and it seems that the artisans who decorated it were very talented. You could spend 10 minutes just staring at the beautiful ceiling of the mosque.

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I completely agree with you, @Abdoado ! After seeing the photos you shared from the mosque, I feel like I could do the same as you - just stand there and look up at the ceiling for a long time. The whole interior actually is so fascinating! I’m definitely saving this place in my Google Maps for a future visit. :))

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