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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Outdoorfreedom · 56-60, M

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.