Let’s Go Shopping: Egyptian Style!

Nine days in Egypt provided us with many opportunities to spend our dollars $$$. Every day as we entered the bus, children and adults kept saying “dallar, dallar!” Our guide gave us advice of whether the item is good or excellent. ( our secret code)

Our first stop was to help us prepare for our special dinner on the ship. Several purchased jibaahs, turbans, galabiyas that will be appropriate for this Egyptian dinner.

All dressed up for the party!

Egypt is know for four special products, Alabaster, Papyrus, Hand made Egyptian Rugs and Essential Oils,. We were able to visit the best for each item.

Alabaster shop that makes and sell beautiful items.
Three friends from the last century finally meet again in Egypt in the Alabaster Shop! Milligan connections and for Ellen and Kathy, Milligan and First Christian Church, Erwin, Tennessee!
Abu Simbel Papyrus: A demonstration of how the papyrus is made and beautiful images to take home. I purchased a smaller version of the geese in the bottom right, from a 4th Dynasty tomb (original at the Egyptian Museum) A water color facsimile from the 1890’s is one of my favorite items at the Metropolitan Museum in New York by Charles Wilkerson.
First floor is the rug school, second floor the showroom! Rug at the right is $7,000.
Mikah takes a lesson on how to tie a knot at the Rug School
Rugs, rug, and more rugs!
Essential Oil from al Fayed Perfumes
Nubian Spices
Walk through all sites to the sales pitch of “dallar, dallar”
Bazaar in Old Cairo. This building went on forever!
On the way to and from the Felucca ride.
What would you give for an Egyptian tablecloth?

Some very enterprising sales men were those that attached their small boat to our ship and sold items to those onboard. They wrapped the item in plastic with a packet for the buyer to send down his $$. Watching the bargaining was fun!

However the Number 1 Salesman Award goes to this young man who walked through the evening traffic jam with 16 lanes of traffic offering flowers to take home at the end of the day!

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I am the retired Department Chair of Family & Child Studies at Appalachian State University. I retired in 2017 after 23 years at the University.

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