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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Moon3624 · 22-25, F

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 ?😅

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@Moon3624 his next trip to Nigeria is already planned. Hahaha