CAIRO is a pharaonic world, and religious world. Cairo is a teeming city that jars all the senses, all at once. There are thousands of years of history in this city of 18 million people, and that history can be seen in the people themselves: the modern-day ful seller peddling his stewed beans from a decorated cart, the felucca captain guiding his sailboat through the murky Nile, the young man riding a bicycle through traffic with a ladder-sized tray of bread balanced on his head.

These are some of the most important places you should see on you Cairo Layover.