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Cairo | Annabel Skinner | Egypt, Cairo and Giza, Cairo

The head of the boy at my side only came up to my shoulder, but his bright eyes and confident persistence were helplessly engaging. "My friend, follow me..."

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The Grand Tour: Style on the Nile | John Borthwick | Egypt, Cairo and Giza, Cairo

Teeing off from, or even climbing, the pyramids is no longer permitted, but the Giza circus that swirls around them hasn't abated a jot since the Duke of Windsor's day, if not the pharaoh's

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Those Other Pyramids of Egypt | Graham Simmons | Egypt, Cairo and Giza, Cairo

"Baksheesh!" demands the guide at the Tomb of the Doctors, after leading me up a spiral staircase from the catacombs far below the ground. On the way back up we climb no fewer than 119 steps, seemingly twice the number as on the way down.

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Up the Nile on the Golden One - Dahibiya | Barnaby Rogerson | Egypt, Cairo and Giza, Cairo

Cairo cannot disappoint, most especially when you arrive during the last two nights of Ramadan

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When in Cairo... belly dance | Anthony Sattin | Egypt, Cairo and Giza, Cairo

Madame Fifi, self-crowned Queen of the Nile, caught in a single spotlight, feted by a fanfare from her 30-member band. She is tall and solid, a rounded Egyptian beauty in diaphanous red robe and sequined bikini

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