Are you looking forward to a long-awaited holiday in Egypt and wondering how to spice up your stay at a resort by the Red Sea? As tempting as the vision of a week spent in the comfort of a beach chair may seem, it would be a great pity to visit the land of the pharaohs and not to see the iconic pyramids in Cairo. However, the largest metropolis on the African continent will attract many other historical gems, which you would not even expect deep in the bowels of the noisy city of fifteen million. So what to see in Cairo?