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Flights to Cairo are increasingly popular for travellers who want to savour the distinct hospitality and world-class infrastructure that this captivating city offers. Choose Etihad Airways, the National Airline of the United Arab Emirates, for flights to Cairo on which you will be travelling in comfort and style. Watch this video (opens in new window) and find out why we won the esteemed World's Leading Airline Award at the 2009 and 2010 World Travel Awards.
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Cairo information
Cairo is located in northern Egypt, known as Lower Egypt, south of the Mediterranean Sea and west of the Gulf of Suez and Suez Canal. The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region. Although the Cairo metropolis extends away from the Nile in all directions, the city of Cairo resides only on the east bank of the river and two islands within it.
Over the ages, and as far back as four thousand years, Egypt stood as the land where civilizations have always met. The Pharaohs together with the Greeks and the Romans have left their imprints here. Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula introduced Islam into Egypt. Khedive Mohammad Ali, with his Albanian family roots, put Egypt on the road to modernity. If anything, the cultural mix in this country is natural, given its heritage. Egypt can be likened to an open museum with monuments of the different historical periods on display everywhere.
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Cairo attractions
The Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian Museum's collection includes over 120,000 items.One of the major highlights is the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamen tomb collection on the museum's upper floor. The tomb of Tutankhamen was found remarkably intact by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in 1923. Artifacts on display include the gold funerary mask and sarcophagus, four huge gilded boxes that fit inside each other, an ancient trumpet, thrones, and even a royal toilet seat. Also upstairs is the royal Mummy Room, which houses 11 royal mummies from pharaonic times.
Old Cairo
The Coptic Cairo is the oldest part of the city and was once known as the Roman stronghold of Babylon. It is the ancient heart of the Coptic Christian community and although only five of the original 20 churches remain they are interesting to visit, along with the first mosque built in Egypt and the oldest synagogue, a representation of three of the major religions of the modern world. It is a peaceful place to wander around and a respite from the busy city centre. |
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Flights to Cairo
You can book flights to Cairo online with Etihad Airways by selecting the date option from the booking engine on the right hand side of this page. For more information on specific routes to Cairo, please see the list below:
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