Cairo, he said, was “boundless in multitude of buildings, peerless in beauty and splendour, the meeting - place of comer and goer, the halting - place of feeble and mighty, whose throngs surge as the waves of the sea. ”
Ибн Батута бил крајно одушевен од бродовите, градините, пазарите, верските објекти и обичаите во овој величествен град.