I just came back from Egypt a month ago and I have been to many countries before and this was by far our worst experience as a tourist. It’s not tourist friendly at all. Everyone tries to take advantage of you. This is the one country I can say I will never go back. Very chaotic, my husband and I couldn’t wait to leave the country. Our final straw was airport employees asking for money in every corner of the airport.

Worked at the US Embassy in Cairo for 2 years. I had a diplomatic passport (Vienna Convention…”you can’t look in my bags”) and STILL dealt with the same crap. Cairo has a near zero percent repeat tourism rate for a reason.

I went to Egypt five months ago. At the airport, the police stopped me for three hours, searching through my bags for cameras or drones. When I was leaving the country, they stopped me again for two hours, and a policeman took me to a private room and asked for money to let me catch my flight. It was a horrible experience. People are not smiling or friendly unless they get tips, taxi drivers will rip you off, and there's dust and rubbish everywhere. Expect anything to happen to you.

I stayed in Egypt for only 3 nights and couldn’t wait to leave. I went bc I am fascinated with ancient history, but the museum was heartbreaking, everything was kept in bad condition, the hotel would have us go trough X-ray every time, and the way they treat animals is so sad. I am never going back

i was just there last month. i didn't believe when youtubers say "don't go to egypt" but after my visit, i fully believe it 200%. Pyramids are nice but honestly, it's really not worth the scams and harrasments.

My dad studied in Cairo in the 1960s and swears they were the best of his life. In 2015 he went again and was so disappointed in everything.

As an Egyptian citizen i should advice all foreign people don't come to Egypt lone you must know arab friend or Egyptian friend to help you and don't make you get scammed by a bad persons and government is shit (sorry to all people but this is the truth )❤

Egypt has changed so much. My parents went there twice in the 1990s and found the place safe and welcoming. Tourists were treated well, and everywhere they went, people were polite and curious. The Egyptian military accompanied the tour groups as protection (and for more nefarious reasons, I'm sure, but they were impeccably courteous). My mother never felt unsafe or disrespected. But these days it's an absolute catastrophe. Chaos, corruption, crime.

The fact that you guys still pulled through with this stuff and manage to put out content about food is what makes you guys indeed, the Best Ever Food Review Show. keep them videos coming.

My friends were there. A young couple with their two little children. Airports staff went through their stuff and stole valuable from them, poor hospitality.

I will say it endlessly and I’m so happy to see this video because Egypt was easily the worst place I’ve ever visited in my life.

"It's a nightmare" Could not summarize my experience in Egypt any better than that. I actually never felt this way after visiting any country before, everybody lies, cheats, manipulates, threatens and rob you in broad day light. If you don't take all these warnings and still want to go there because you THINK you are a traveller.. then be warned, the moment you leave the airport or trainstation, you are going to get robbed, cheated, scammed etc. The taxi drivers will quote you a price and then change the meter half way through the ride and will go crazy if you question it and threaten to drop you off in middle of nowhere (which is worse than it sounds as you are like a steak in a tank of piranhas if you are not with locals you can trust - baring in mind you can not trust ANYBODY). Can't even enjoy the historical places because everybody harasses/threatens you. Worst experience of my life. I should have stayed at home and watched egyptian landmarks on KZfaq, would have been 1 trillion times better, enjoyable, educational (and safer).

This might not be that interesting but I've been to Egypt with my friends this summer and after 5th day I started feeling very emotionaly unstable. We were treated as walking ATMs and people inflated prices to us all the time. Nevertheless, we decided to go outside at night on our 6th day (we will be leaving to Serbia on 7th) and we wanted to buy drinks from a local store. The shopkeeper was the first man that showed dignity and honesty towards us and did not buff the prices up. My mind was blown because until that point noone treated us as equal human beings. And don't get me wrong I'm not a stone but that perticual gesture (acting normal) had such impact on me that I started crying. I thanked him so much for being honest and he was also very touched for me explaining why I am crying and even gifted me a small present from his shop. I could not belive how much I could miss the honor and dignity that a man SHOULD posses. If it was me to be asked tommorow - that man saved his country in my eyes. Hurghada - shop right after the new marina fish market.

I agree. If you step out of an expensive chain resort, you will get harassed, scammed, robbed, yelled at, pushed, groped...or worse. Never, ever again.

I was hesitating to go to Egypt for vacation. After watching this, I'm definitely not going. I'm going to Greece 😅

Yep, got robbed by a policeman that marched me to an ATM. Told me to get money and paid $150 US to not get arrested. I was with an organised tour group and moved away from the crowd by 4 metres and that's when I got clipped. Just the absolute worst country.

Yes, I agree 100% because I just came back from Egypt one week ago, I will not go back until it changes for good.

So much for the much lauded Arab hospitality. Egypt was on my bucket list, but my friend and her son went a few years ago, prior to the pandemic, and told me to NOT go to Egypt ever. They were with a group of other tourists, paid a lot of money, only to be harassed and disrespected at every corner. The tour operator apologized, and said they would hold off on any further tour offering, because of the complaints they got from tour groups. So after watching this video and listening to your story, I guess I will be watching documentaries about Egypt and place any plans to go to the country on hold. Thanks for posting.

When I went to Egypt I was on a 5 day Aswan Dam river boat. I was with 3 other Americans all in their 50's. The rest of the 300 passengers were from France. One day after a daytime tour, we went back to the boat for lunch. All the food on the buffet was covered with saran wrap. None of the French passengers had arrived yet for lunch. We were refused (by the crew) to allow us to get food from the buffet; instead, they brought us lunch on plates and then they stood around staring at us. I told my fellow Americans something was up, and not to eat the food. They thought I was paranoid, and proceeded to eat their lunch. Ten minutes later, the French tourists arrived and the buffet line was opened. I got in line and ate my buffet lunch. Later that night, all my American friends got violently ill with food poisoning; later on back in U.S., they found they had been infected with worms found most commonly in dog feces. Thank God for my justifed paranoia. Never go to Egypt as a tourist.

The other thing about Egypt is I experienced more scams there than in any other country 😅 the “pyramid access is closed but I can show you another entrance” trick, the “do you want to come to a local wedding in a rural town as a guest” trick, every scam in the book, to the point where I no longer wanted to talk to anyone or even make eye contact. Tourists are viewed as cash cows, there’s really no integrity when it comes to interacting with tourists. For anyone visiting Egypt, I recommend a full service tour, so you minimize local interaction and chance of getting scammed.

As an Arab who's been there i can tell you %80 of those situations are pure power trip. They love to flaunt any little position of power they get, it's not just the system it's the people.

Fun fact, it's illegal in Egypt to criticize the government

Thanks for the warning! I was thinking of visiting Egypt - now I’m sure I wont. I’ll warn all my friends too.

As an egyptian, i thank you for this video. I hope this video goes viral and change Egypt for the better.

My Experience in Egypt: I went there with 2 friends. We are all muslim and 2 male + 1 female When we arrived some airport employee came to us and checked us (none of us spoke arabic). They spoke arabic in a very aggressive way. Eventually they took our Camera and my 2nd mobile phone. They said I couldnt have it back until we leave the country. It was exactly, how our friend here described. I also had to pay like 100€. At the hotel, we were checked AGAIN and had to w8 about 4-5 hours, just to get to our room! Our rooms was not like it was advertised. Toiletts were disgusting, dirty and dusty beehh. In the streets, many people harassed us, trying to sell us anything and tried to scam us. All the products were soo expensive for us, not for the locals. One after another wanted us to go in their shops, some guys even tried to force us in. When my friend went alone down an alley, he went into a shop and didn't buy anything (because of shitty good). Upon reunification, there was all of sudden a child following us, bringing cops and he told that my friend tried to rape him !! From this hearsay he was arrested and we fought 2 days to death to get him out ! We HAD to give money to officers big sums, which they gladly took from us without doing anything !! If it was not for our embassy (of Ger), he would have rotten there !! And the hell trip wasn't over then. People were following us, harassed our feminime friend by the THOUSANDS because they thought she is a woman, she wants to have sex with all the arabs there. They even touched at in uncomfortable spots. It didn't feel safe. And whats worse, there is in restaurants and shops different pricing for tourists and locals. When we ate at an restaurant, we ordered for like 15€ food, and we had to pay like 50€. When we asked for the menu, it was an entirely different one with higher pricing. When he threatened us with police, we just payed and left. After all this, I wasn't interested anymore to get a taxi to see the pyramides, I didn't wanted to check out any more any culture, other cities or what so ever. We were all physically, emotionally and financially exhausted and totally disppointed by everything what was connected to egypt. In the end we spend more than 2000€ in that shitty country for a trip of 8 days !! All kinds of experiences we made were just negative. Harassments, taking our money and assets, lying and cheating us, stealing and so on. You can't imagine just how these people are !! The final 2 days we just stayed at our hotel. This tour made me hate this country, its authorities, its people (majority was unfriendly and sex-obsessed-men), its culture, its cities (overcrowded, dirty and garbage piled up everywere), its landscape, basically EVERYTHING !! They treated us like enemies !! I feel sorry for people who go there and have a bad time there !! Thank god we made it out of there ALIVE

as an Egyptian i honesty think you described it accurately and i myself hate the fact that i belong to this country

Was planning a two week trip worth several thousand $$$ with the wife and kid and parents. No more. Going to Italy instead.

I can feel the frustration and anxiety just by listening to your experience. My wife went to Egypt last year and she told me that it was horrible, and some of the people that were with the group she was with, had their cameras taken away and never got them back. Horrible!!!

Yes, "I once asked a friend from Sudan if he had been to this country. His immediate response was, 'Why do you want to know?' I told him I was interested in visiting there for a holiday. He then said, 'People go to places to enjoy, not to fight with people and systems over there.'" Watching your video reminded me of that conversation and lucky I did not go there.

I am married to Egyptian man (8 years) we live in USA and have two kids. In 2023 we visited Cairo for the first time… what surprised me that we had to give tips to anyone we talk or got help, it was insane.. Another think their bureaucracy and government buildings are total mess, to get me residency card was a crazy marathon… All the people there had no idea what to do who to ask questions… I love the history of Egypt, museums, food lots of places to visit they have… but they need lots of change in their system…

This guy is one of the most humble men I have met in my life. I’m truly sorry that you and your team had to face this situation in Egypt.

I was there last year. I've never felt so watched in my entire life. I was constantly harassed by the police everywhere I went. I can't tell you how many times I had to show undercover police officers my passport. I lost a whole day because I had to sit in a police station and I finally figured out they just wanted a bribe from me. It's the most corrupt, crazy, and exhausting country I've ever visited and I will not be going back until leadership changes and brings in some reforms. The Egyptian people were nice, a part from the ones who were trying to scam me at the pyramids but I expected that. Note: I followed every law in their book and never did anything I wasn't supposed to.

I just recently returned from a 5-6 day trip to Egypt, and while my experience wasn't quite a bad as yours, it was only marginally better. While there we visited Cairo, Aswan, and Luxor. The corruption in their systems is almost surreal to behold. I was completely unprepared for it. Our guide was our only saving grace as she helped us avoid as many issues as possible. The trip was full of bribes and "tips" that we had to pay along the way just to move within the country. It wasn't just officials but a portion of the citizenry as well that had extortionary systems in place. After enduring this for several days, and while preparing to leave the country, we almost ended up having to call the US Embassy in Cairo after we, a group of 11 US Citizens, were held for our "protection" for several hours under armed guard at the Cairo Airport until we paid the security chief at the airport to let us go 5 minutes up the road to our hotel to sleep for the 2 hours we had remaining before our flight departed. My summation: Egypt is historically beautiful, but systemically appalling.

If anyone watches sailing zatara, when they went landed in Egypt on their catamaran, they had multiple authorities trying to shake them down for money and then began discussing confiscating their million dollar boat. They made the quick decision they would leave the country. Which the did at night to get outside the country limits. That entire country is corrupt AF and dangerous. It is off of MY bucket list.

My GF said we should go to Egypt... I showed her your video.... Her Response " Hell NO we're not going".... Mind Changed ..

i lived in egypt for 7 years , it was everyday some action , brutal fight , it was a scary country to live

Went to Egypt 2 years back, absolute hell on earth. Same deal, had iPad with charger and a camera was asked what it's for, tried to charge me a fine $400, a horrible horrible country, every person I spoke to wanted cash, going through a checkpoint had to pay an official (yeah right) $250, had a coffee which was awful and the bill was $12 just for coffee. Everything about this country is corrupt and horrible, never going back, I think if more people catch on the tourist trade will dry up.

"They're worried I'm talking crap about their country... They've given me a reason to talk crap about the country" Those sentences perfectly encapsulate how a paranoid government bureaucracy that try to prevent people talking shit just makes people talk more shit. Especially foreigners who have the ability to talk shit about any country they want and one with a huge following. If anything, this experience has convinced tourists to steer clear of Egypt.

I am glad you shared that man. Egypt was one of my top visit spots. Now I take it off the list.

Egypt . . . SCRATCHED FROM BUCKET LIST OF TRIPS! Thanks for sharing!

I visited Egypt twice about 20 years ago. Never again. They beg for money EVERYWHERE. Guy in a toilet worked as a toilet paper dispenser and asked for tips, a local jumped into a picture I was taking and then demanded tips for his face in my picture, a guy shook my hand on the street and did not release it for a few minutes demanding I go inside and buy something from his shop, at the pyramids young men offered post cards as a “present” and then demanded money, our group was going through souvenir shops as through a flock of attacking birds, children are taught to ask for money, heck at some place we were surrounded by a group of children offering hashish. Bus drivers decided to have fun on a mountain road and were overturning each over. Not to mention the fact that every time I came back with food poisoning. Egypt is a great place, but its population is uncivilized.

I visited Egypt about 2 months ago and it was the most racist country that I have ever visited. Not just the officials but people too. Kids followed me saying racist stuff and demanding money, shops tried so hard to scam me, restaurants just flat out ignored me when I wanted to order. I have never experienced such racism and I visited over 20 different countries. Sad state of Egypt

Thank you for the warning. Taking Egypt off my bucket list

LoL I really enjoyed the video because your sarcasm lines are so funny 😂 “They deem suspicious based on their complete lack of knowledge of anything” looool “Why would you possibly want to have a walkie-talkie unless you planning to overthrow our government” looool “A police officer telling me what to delete based on what? his feelings“ looool

As Egyptian, I can't agree more! this is the exact reason I had to fled this country. The fear of being thrown any time in jail JUST BECAUSE someone thinks that you should! there's no system, no rules and surviving there is just a matter of luck and/or having some corrupted connections.

You successfully described the daily life of an egyptian. Imagine being an egyptian citizen. As an egyptian I am sorry you had to go through this.

Off my list. I carry a lot of gear and tech devices. So far everywhere ive been has been pretty cool about it but your experience is my nightmare. Thanks dor saving me the money and time.

I did visit Egypt during the lockdowns because there was a lack of destination possibilities. I reserved an adult-only resort and because of low bookings all guest in the adult-only section of the resort were moved to family buildings full of noise and children’s activities without any conversation or regards to the agreed upon travel bookings. It was impossible to explain that had no desire to pass holidays with screaming children everyday. The manager had the audacity to ask ‘Why I did not like children?’ Then I was charged extra for eating in my suite. I had locals harassing me to buy products every-time I stepped out of the door. The staff would intrusively engage me in trivial, tedious & meaningless conversations so that I avoided the pool area all together. The restaurant by the pool was often reserved for the hotel owner’s private family diners making the actual guest feel uncomfortable. I sometimes saw police lights in front of hotel which I am certain were used to calm outraged travelers. Never again! Keep it!

you know it is serious when a jolly and fun person like sonny telling you story like this

I too had a very similar experience. I went there for a conference and stayed there for three nights. Absolute horror. I must, however, say that some of the people I met there were magnificent and really helpful. But there is "no system" out there for "anything at all". Some observations from my side: 1. You have to tip anyone and everyone. I am an Indian - I am used to this behaviour - but never ever have I paid a tip to a person, every time I had to go to the toilet at the Airport. At Cairo Airport, the cleaners in the toilet keep standing at the doors. When you leave, you are supposed to tip them. I had to wait at the airport for 6 hours. It seemed like a never-ending wait. 2. When you go for security checks, there will be people who would take your bag - even if it is a simple backpack, that you can easily put yourself on the belt - and put it on the belt. You will have to tip them for doing so. I was quite adamant not to give a tip to a guy for just putting my laptop bag on the belt. But he kept insisting. There was some white guy behind me in the line, who whispered to me "give him the tip, or else, they'll FIND SOMETHING in your bag". I got his clue and gave him 20 Egyptian Pounds. 3. To avoid travelling, I had booked a room in the same hotel where my conference was scheduled. At the last moment, the conference organisers changed it to a hotel around 20 km from my hotel. I was so furious I had almost made up my mind to not attend it and go back. Fortunately, I met a kind person from Saudi Arabia there, who helped me out in arranging a cab (by speaking to everyone in Arabic on my part), and also cheered me up. But this "no system" part was so true - the organisers did not even apologise for this abrupt change. I stayed right next to the Nile river, and the great pyramids were only 30-40 mins from there. I did not go there. In my mind, it was a kind of protest - I did not want to spend any more money than required in Cairo.

Went to Egypt several years ago and would never go back. Zero infrastructure, it's chaos everywhere. Food was delicious though and people were nice.

I am Egyptian and fled out of that place and not willing to go back there ever! It’s miserable and disastrous in every possible way!

Thank you...I've just taken Egypt off my "Bucket List."

I'm Egyptian and I'm so sorry you had to go through this but I can vouch that all of this is completely accurate and I stopped being a street photographer due to the massive paranoia, stupidity and lack of clear laws/systems

I've been many times to Egypt. I loved Dahab, North coast, Hurghada.... Just amazing experience!

Was in Alexandria Egypt US Navy port call january of 1988 , We had a special chit we carried with us at all times to show what ship we was aboard didnt have to many problems at that time , We were not allowed to eat or drink anything while in country we had 2 packed lunches from the ship captains orders or you would go to captains mast if caught by our shore patrol . Was well worth visiting the Cairo museum and the pyramids at giza for the day , Did a bucket list at 22 years old !

15 of us were planning to have a bachelor party in Egypt ( we are from UK). although they had amazing deals, after watching your video and several others KZfaqrs, we decided to go to Romania instead. Thank you for raising awareness

I agree that it is a nightmare. We visited the Pyramids, and these tour guides made us sit on a camel, and when we were on the camel, they said. "We will not climb down you from the camel unless you pay 40 US dollars". My friend just leaped from the top of a camel during an argument near the pyramids, where there are big stones. And they made me sit there until I handed over the money. It was frightening for me to start crying. I would never recommend anyone go there.

I have always been VERY good at learning from someone else's mistakes/lessons! I'll be SURE to keep this vid in my mental vault! I feel NO NEED to find out for myself! Thanks for the info!!! 😮

Thank you so much for this info 👍 Have changed our travel plans since watching this. YOU'RE AWESOME 👏👏👏

I've been to around 50 countries and lived in 10. Egypt is by far the worst experience I've ever had.

Me and my Wife has been also once to Egypt for a 2 weeks vacation and we will never go back to Egypt for so many reasons. It is honestly one of the worst countries to visit.

The issue with Egypt that you NEED to know someone from Egypt's authorities. It's corruption and nepotism all over the place. I remember traveled there back in 2011, and we had a guide that had connections with army guys as well, and we were allowed to places that tourists never visiting. That being said, the Egyptian hotel manager offered to bring a girl for me as a s*x service, I politely denied. That was... horrible.

My husband HATED it and said never again. Everyone tries to scam you out of money. They are rude and the driving skills are horrendous.

Thanks for this. Just cancelled my $20,000 honeymoon to Egypt thanks to you!

As someone who grew up as a history nerd, Egypt is literally at the top of my bucket list. But because of such well-documented nightmarish experiences like this that you and other travel filmmakers like Lost Leblanc have had, I sadly won't be going there to film anytime soon

I went on holiday to Egypt around 12 years ago. I visited Cairo. It was a guided tour and even then it was crazy! The guide took us to different places, each time dropping a handshake and a little cash to the next person looking after us haha it’s was nuts! The people there are just looking out for themselves, but not in a malicious way! The pyramids were full of tourist traps but what do you expect it’s a tourist destination and each person is looking for the next buck to help them live. Egypt is a place for people to visit once, experience the madness and beauty of it, yes you have to look beyond the craziness of it, but as soon as you accept Egypt for what it is and accept their culture it’s impressive. I won’t return to Cairo, but I’m glad I visited!

I love that you told us what happened there. A lot of social media influencer would hide this and tell you something like “do your own due diligence” and act like they had a good time 😅

My Egyptian horror story, in brief. I had food poisoning on the first day. The first symptoms I noticed was coming out of a coma on Day 5, only to find myself tied to a hospital bed. My family had been told I was unlikely to live. Due to the nature of my family to only people able to travel were women, they were advised by the British Foreign office that as unaccompanied women they would be more at risk than myself. It turns out that 2 days of my coma had been spent lying on the floor of my hotel room, charming. After 2 week in an intensive care, I had to be medically evacuated by a Doctor. The British Consul and the Doctor worked for the best part of 36 hours clearing the paperwork. Despite this every person we had to pass in the airport did his damndest to stop me boarding the flight. The lowest point, among many, was when Egyptian customs insisted the Doctor to put his resuscitation gear in the hold ! When they finally were convinced of the reason , they then tried to stop him taking the batteries for his oxygen generator and it took a twenty minute negotiation so that he could provide enough oxygen for the 5 hour flight. A single battery at a time ! Meanwhile I'm slumped in a rickety wheel chair. The moment I felt the airplane wheels leave the runway I a wave of relief and joy, and swore I would never return to Egypt EVER !

wow! this video completely quashed any interest I had in going to Egypt! Thanks for being a sacrifical lamb for the rest of us! :)

I spent approx 900 USD in a hotel I took a suite room. During my checkout these hotel guys stopped me and asked me to check my bag. One small hand towel was missing. They checked my Bag it was nothing in my bag. I will give an Honest review on this country once I go back to my country

Can’t imagine living here. So sorry for people in Egypt

Very sad that Egypt is self canceling from people's bucket list like this but it is what it is. Thanks for putting the word out.

I’m Chinese, have been in Egypt once in 2017, had experienced nearly losing my passport and finally found in the airport, the taxi driver and police were working together to cheat me for some money for the passport I found by myself, unbelievable country……

Thanks for showing your experiences

After this video I’m crossing this destination off my list, cheers for this video

My grandparents went there before they passed. They visited quite a few different countries in their lifetime but they talked about Egypt like it was absolutely dreadful.

Sadly, this is the most accurate video I have seen about Egypt in years. Even local people get completely uncomfortable around cameras because they either believe what the regime says about "foreigner spies" or because they're terrified of what might happen to them if the police thought they were "cooperating" with a foreigner with a camera... You can see it clearly a few times during the videos.

Horrific food poisoning for me from Cairo. If you go be smart, drink tap water and avoid street food. One of these factors did it in for me.

This needs to go viral, so that future tourists who have never visited the country can be alerted.

I wish I’d seen this video sooner. We went to Egypt (Sharm El-Sheikh) in October 2023. All inclusive with the family in what was billed as a 4 star hotel. Worst holiday of our lives, hotel was dirty, no customer service, everyone after money, whole family got sick, and to top it off, we were involved in a massive crash in our holiday transfer on the way back and all the company cared about was us signing something to say we were ok. When you’re presented with police with machine guns in front of your crying young children, you’ll sign anything. You couldn’t pay me to go back there!

Wow. This is a horrible story. Thank you guys for sharing this experience! At least everyone can now avoid the mess Egypt seems to be!

I visited egypt one time. I paid for a taxi which should have taken me directly to the pyramids. First he took me to a papyrus shop where they tried to sell me ridiculously expensive papyrus pictures, and after that he took me to a tourist office is a slum, where they literally closed the door behind me and didn't let me out until I bought a very expensive tourguide. In the end, the taxi guy asked for a tip. I will never go back.

We lived in Egypt for 3 years and made lots of great lifelong friends and memories BUT anything dealing with government offices is a nightmare and the airport is the absolute worst experience of my life! They took our dogs and we had to pay $500 to get them back . I was bawling in the airport begging them to at least let me see them and make sure they were ok .. nope! This was 3am so it took a whole day of gathering the funds and going from office to office to office to finally get the paper work we needed to pick them up .. also we are very well traveled and we called ahead and did everything they said to bring them in. Like you said their is no system and no 2 people give you the same rules or guidelines. Egypt could be amazing but they really need to clean house!

This is the good thing about KZfaq, now I can cross Egypt off my list of places to go without suffering the personal grief of finding out about it myself. I'm never going to Egypt.

I have never heard good stuff about Egypt from tourists, bad experiences seem to be the common theme

I went to Egypt in 2006, and as a single female traveling alone--I got taken aside and forced to drink tea with a random government official for two hours. I wondered why my friend didnt show up when he was suppose to, they already. had his information--I was confused as to what was actually happening and I felt scared. My friend didnt show up, but a tour guide...a random "tour guide" and an angry security guard who was forced to travel with me at all times with a huge gun under his jacket. I am grateful for my time there, but im never returning.

I’ve lived in Cairo for 9 months now, and I can tell you that Egypt is a very crooked country. You’ll meet some of the most kindest people, but you’ll also encounter some of the most dishonest and unethical human beings who care only about money.

I visited Egypt once, and it was the worst trip of my life. The amount of pressure and harassment is honestly unbearable, they think I’m some sort of a Sheikh or a prince once they know I’m from Arabia, which made me wear local clothes and try fitting in to avoid all that shit. I was relieved once I got to the airport, just to be approached by an airport worker who grabbed my luggage and skipped the whole line and checked my bags in, l knew what was coming. So I told him I had no money and I showed him my wallet, after a long argument, I had to get him off my ass and I gave him the last money I had. I genuinely was so close to a nervous breakdown once I boarded my plane and got the hell outta there.

This was one of most interesting videos I have seen recently. Thanks

Went in 2018 with my two kids (no husband). Was harassed absolutely everywhere I went. Awful place, would never return.

I am Egyptian and I agree with you 100% ! People need to stop visiting there so that things could change after a $$$$ crunch!

I went to egypt once and ill never return. The place is crazy. No systems and everyone just wants to rip everyone else off.

OMG this is very heart breaking to me as an Egyptian, I wish I could do anything to make these people's experiences any better but I guess I will never be able to, I just wish something would change and people and tourists would be able to enjoy their experiences again!

I'm so sorry you had to go through all of this. Such a shame.

Decades ago my family went on vacation to Egypt. We were in the airport in Cairo trying to take a domestic flight to Luxor. The guy behind the check-in counter looked at our tickets but told my father we are not on the flight list. After some discussion, it was decided my father should go behind the counter and look at the screen himself... The screen was turned OFF! My father handed him some money, the screen was turned on, and there we were on the list. Just felt like the scamming was everywhere. Amazing historic sights in Egypt... but....

I'm Australian, my wife kids and myself are extremely well travelled. I agree...don't go to Egypt. The hassle, corruption and vulnerability to travellers is very, very scary.

Thank you for posting.

Always have an SD Card to drop footage and tuck away!