CAIRO – Egypt [HD]

Video and photos in HD I have made during my trip to El Cairo in Egypt in 2010. The video includes the following highlights: Pyramids of Giza, the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), Pyramid of Khafre (Chephren), Cheops Boat Museum, entering the Great Pyramid, Pyramid of Menkaura (Mycerinus), climbing a pyramid of Giza, Queens Pyramids, the Sphinx, Egyptian Museum, Cairo streets, Citadel Mohammed Ali Mosque, El Naser Mosque, Madrasa of Sultan Hassan, Al Rifai Mosque, Khan El Khalili Bazaars, Coptic Cairo, the Hanging Church, Roman Tower, the Nile. As always thank you for watching and for your great comments! Roberto from Switzerland (founder of the Swiss Travel Channel) If you enjoyed the video, why not subscribe and/or like the video? ;) Thank you for your support! More videos to come! Link to my channel: /c/SwissTravelChannel SwissTravelChannel is a YouTube channel of my holiday’s trips videos, taken all around the world since 2008. Some are for pure tourism and others are more of an adventure. The videos usually show the top best tourist attractions, the top things to do and top places to see. The goal is to inspire others on their next vacations. The videos can also be seen as a guide to have an idea of the main highlights and places to explore. I love to take pictures of the nature, traditions and different cultures, to search the must-see spots and show the essentials in my videos, for this reason I always try to create the perfect vacation. Traveling is more than a hobby for me, is a way of life. Photocamera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T99 Editing program: Magix Movie Edit Soundtracks: 1. Varoius soundtracks from the movie “The Mummy” (1999) 2. Varoius soundtracks from the movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) 3. Varoius soundtracks from the PC videogame “Pharaoh” (1999) CAIRO (source Wikipedia): Cairo (Al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt. The city's metropolitan area is the largest in the Middle East and the Arab world, and the 15th-largest in the world, and is associated with ancient Egypt, as the famous Giza pyramid complex and the ancient city of Memphis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, modern Cairo was founded in 969 CE by the Fatimid dynasty, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo has long been a center of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture. Cairo is considered a World City with a "Beta +" classification according to GaWC. Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab world, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, Al-Azhar University. Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city; the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence. With a population of 6.76 million spread over 453 square kilometers (175 sq mi), Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt. An additional 9.5 million inhabitants live in close proximity to the city. Cairo, like many other megacities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic. Cairo's metro, one of two in Africa (the other being in Algiers, Algeria), ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1 billion annual passenger rides. The economy of Cairo was ranked first in the Middle East in 2005, and 43rd globally on Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Cities Index. PYRAMIDS OF GIZA (source Wikipedia): The Giza pyramid complex is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramid complexes known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex. It is located in the Western Desert, approximately 9 km (5 mi) west of the Nile river at the old town of Giza, and about 13 km (8 mi) southwest of Cairo city centre. The pyramids, which have historically been common as emblems of ancient Egypt in the Western imagination, were popularised in Hellenistic times, when the Great Pyramid was listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is by far the oldest of the ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence.

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