Great Overview of Cairo! - My friend and I had a wonderful time on our private tour with our friendly and very knowledgable guide, Dhalia. We visited the Khan El Khalili bazaar, did some shopping and took in the magical sights of Old Cairo. We also visited Coptic Cairo and explored inside the many beautiful churches there. For lunch we had Koshary at the best Koshary spot in the area. It was so delicious! Thank you Dhalia, for a truly great day!

Bizarre and a bit unsettling! - This market is crowded around a working mosque with narrow streets where cars and buses force their way through - watch your feet! You need haggle hard to get a good bargain and the sellers are way too persistent when you say La, La (no) - even with a stern face! Did not say you will come back to a shop - they will come looking for you! It is a great though and there are some cafes for drinks.

Shopping tour to milk tourists - This tour is pretty useless unless you know where exactly you want to be. We went to the bazaar for less than 10 minutes then he asked where we wanted to go or what we wanted to buy. I told him that we wanted the tour we had booked. We don’t know the city and wanted him to show us around and show us the area. The driver and tour guide seemed to just think of random things to do instead of having a planned tour. He then took us around to different shops where we were pressured to buy stuff we didn’t want. If we didn’t buy something they asked why and kept asking us to look at more stuff even when I kept saying I wasn’t interested. At one shop we were sitting around bored so went to a papyrus shop that was close and he got annoyed and asked us why we went there. I told him we were looking because we were bored and we didn’t want any papyrus anyway. He then took us to another papyrus shop which we also left and went to an oil shop close by. He was fast to follow us and tell the guy there that he had taken us to this shop and wanted his cut from what we bought I wanted to see the mosque- he didn’t even know it was closed until we went there. He suggested henna, a boat trip and a museum which I said yes to but the whole day was wasted on shopping that we didn’t want and we didn’t make it to any of those things but he bought me a henna hair dye to do my own henna at the end of the day after asking for his tip. Complete waste of a day. From about an hour into this tour we were trying to find a nice way to ditch the pair of them. Please stay away from this tour.