While my week in Egypt was filled with amazing historical sights I would never ever go again.

I was in Tunisia for two weeks, many years ago, and people were extremely friendly. I avoided tourist spots and traveled on my own through the country. They were surprised to see an un-accompanied young woman in the street.

Sorry about your trip there.
We went to the Cairo area about 5 yrs ago. We got a good tour guide at the airport. He took us all around for a couple days. Stuck with us picking us up and dropping us off . Egypt was surprisingly very secure, more than other countries. We saw a lot he communicated as well as he could using translation through his phone with my wifes phone when we couldn't understand him. Yes vendors did bug us and he told us to keep walking and ignore and say no.
It was a great trip. Structure of the city and country is bad, driving scary, and garbage all over. An awesome museum and scenery, educational and a good guide. Guide did love my wife too which may have helped.
His female helper was nice too.

Were you at least aware you might have to deal with these experiences beforehand?

I loved Egypt. We stayed in great hotels, the food was excellent, the people were friendly and I enjoyed haggling for prices. Luckily this wasn’t my experience at all. I would go again.

I have been to Egypt. Luxor is a very beautiful place, my favorite place there.

Egyptians like the rest of Eastern Europe have had at least 3000 years of experience trading and bartering. It’s a very interesting and challenging country to travel through. I also found that there is 3 different prices that can be paid for bottled water that you buy from any vendor, there is the tourists price which is the top price then there is the back packers price which is in the middle and then the last of all and cheapest of all is the price locals pay for bottled water. If you can work out what the locals pay for it and haggle them down to that price you know you are wining.
The other challenge with traveling through Egypt is that literally EVERYTHING is a bartering experience which becomes exhausting after a while.

I didn’t expect bad food in Egypt, I got that in Israel before I got to Egypt. It was brutal.

i loved Egypt. one of my favorite trips. yes the locals are desperate but i pushed right back.

That sounds like a common experience in Egypt. The pharaoh curse especially. 😬

I would just be happy to be on my dream vacation there and not complain. Perhaps you chose the wrong area of Egypt to vacation in. And the pyramids and the Valley of Kings and the sphinx, etc., would more than make up for harassing locals.

It could've been worse- customs could have had a make believe grievance with you 😅

Anyone wishing visit Egypt , dm me . I will give you 50 tips , plus personal contacts . Not everyone there is bad.

It’s such a shame, but I’ve heard a lot of people say the same.

Sorry very sorry to hear that.... Any good points you have to share ? Or any ideas regarding precautions...

You should have checked the reviews before going. I've heard numerous terrible stories regarding vacations in Egypt, ranging from catcalling to scamming to food sickness, among other things.

Unfortunately Egypt is known for their scammers especially at tourist sights.

One time when my sister was in Egypt , a guy sold her a bag of bread saying he will donate the bread she buys to the poor. He ended up gathering the bread after he disturbed it and doing the scam again to another person.
This is a result of poverty and lack of proper application of laws towards scammers.



“I’ll stick to the U.K. and Europe.”

There are many developed safe and beautiful places outside of UK and Europe
Some are much safer than many European nations
But if you deliberately go to places known for food poisoning and scammers like India and Egypt
What do you expect ?😅

Very sorry to hear that. I’m sure it’s a place on many bucket lists. Did you go on a group tour?

I'm so sorry you had such an awful time. That's a terrible way to be treated when you're minding your own business trying to enjoy yourselves. Very disrespectful. I'm glad neither of you were injured..

Probably because you failed to walk like an Egyptian.

Not my favourite part of the world...😷

I suggest you stay clear of the whole Middle East, it's the same any where there

I was told not to eat veggies in Egypt bc they use human feces as fertilizer . But I did drink tea made w Nile River water and didn’t get sick .

Land of scammers, 😂

I don't blame you. That was terrible! 😠😠😠 Do you have any pictures of the pyramids you can post for us?