Lonely Planet Cairo City Guide

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Discover the best places to see, shop, eat, drink and sleep in the city labelled “the mother of the world” with Lonely Planet’s Cairo City Guide on your iPhone. The Pyramids of Giza, resplendent mosques and mausoleums built at the pinnacle of the Islamic empire, 19th-century palaces and grand avenues – they’re all at your fingertips!

Features

Imagine taking the world's favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the world's favourite guidebook has just arrived on the world's favourite phone.

EASY TO USE – swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music' or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

PERSONALISATION – tailor your City Guide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

OVER 50 CITY GUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo and many more