GOLDEN HOTEL CAIRO, EGYPT -- 14

3-Star Hotel that Offers 10-Star Service at Backpacker Prices

I ate chicken shawarma – the best I’ve ever had, both on a pita and baguette – for a couple bucks at FelFela next door. 

I brought home fine baked goods – Arabic nut/honey-based and fine European chocolate torts – from historic El Abd Patisserie‎ just up Talaat Harb.

I smoked the sisha till my head was light, balancing puffs with lukewarm bottled water and endless hot mint tea—at a popular haunt that had usurped an alleyway just footsteps from the Golden.

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