← Challenges · Cairo and the Pyramids
ADVANCEDThe Rim of the City
≈ 6,000 steps + 45 mi by car2.8 mi on foot · 1 day or moreAdvanced II · 8 stops · 800 credGetting there is not the hard part.Two days and a car, working the outer ring of Greater Cairo from the desert canyon in the south-east to the barrages where the Nile splits in two. A protectorate, a Mamluk sultan's mosque, a Belgian baron's suburb and the dams that made year-round farming possible. Eight stops across roughly sixty kilometres of driving.
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