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

From the second we arrived my wife and I were harassed and occasionally successfully scammed by the locals. And seeing my wife be pushed and shoved by people trying to sell her tacky trinkets - it’s the closest I’ve come to punching a stranger in many years.

And if that wasn’t bad enough we both had varying degrees of food poisoning the entire time.

I’ll stick to the U.K. and Europe. I didnt save money for a year to be treated like a cash cow and disrespected for a week, and no amount of ancient temples is going to change my mind.

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justanothername · 56-60, M

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.

Anniedlr · 31-35, F

@justanothername I could have sworn that Egypt was in North East Africa not Europe 😂😂

WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M

@justanothername

Egyptians like the rest of Eastern Europe

Egypt is in North Africa…