Via http://thesixtrees.com/: With more than its fair share of traffic, overpopulation and pollution, Cairo can be an overwhelming and exhausting place to visit. The city has a shortage of open spaces so when Al-Azhar opened in 2005 it must have come as a huge relief for the city’s inhabitants and visitors.
The site of this 74-acre park was, incredibly, once a garbage dump. Its transformation was funded by His Highness Aga Khan IV who, after seeing piles of garbage from his hotel balcony, decided to intervene and offer the new park as a gift to the people of Cairo. 80,000 truckloads of garbage were removed from the site in the process.
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