Hey everybody? If you seriously feel the need to leave the country (as I do) then

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44. Just to be fair, here are the bad things about Egypt I noticed.

You are expected to give a small tip (less than a dollar if you don’t have more to give) to anyone who helps you, whether a guide or doorman or toilet attendant.

As a woman, you get unwanted attention from men when you are out and about, especially in Western clothing. Egyptian women report the same problem.

I have had men call after me, “cleopatra, your eyes are beautiful…” but never been groped or harmed. The catcalls were unwanted but never vulgar or threatening. (At least, I did not feel threatened.). And tbh I had that happen, and worse, in the US.

The small flies in Egypt, especially the Sinai, are truly from Satan. Lord of the flies. Tiny flies that will land on your face, walk in your eyes, on your lips, to the extent you can sit there and swat them away constantly and still have them land. By the end of my tour there I gave up and let them crawl all over me.

It is the desert, so not much green scenery, except an oasis or right by the Nile River. With irrigation from the river, Egypt has an incredible growing season. Great farmland. Grow stuff year round.

Poverty. It’s hard to witness poverty on the level we are not used to here in the U.S.

Police with rifles. They never bothered me or made me feel unsafe, but some people really are upset by seeing that.

The traffic in places like Cairo is insane. I would never try to drive in Cairo, I have no idea how people do it.

The air pollution etc. in places like Cairo is bad.

I have heard the insulation in buildings in Egypt is not good.

Things imported from overseas, the US etc, are more expensive actually than what you would pay in the U.S.

Local stuff is shockingly affordable, but imports, whoo boy.