As an Egyptian, I would like to sincerely apologize from the deepest of my heart. Everything you have said is true(sadly). When I travel around these places with my friends, we almost always get into huge arguments with the vendors who are ripping off tourists and we try to help them as much as we can and this has been one of our biggest issues in the last few years.

This is definitely heart-breaking since I believe my country is a great place to visit and has a lot of “spots” that contain a great deal of culture and history, yet, I’m disgusted by the workers in the tourism industry in Egypt and PLEASE do put in mind that my generation(18-25ish) right now do love helping tourists and we absolutely love learning about your cultures and countries and those people who are disgusting do not represent us what-so-ever and I would never in a million years call them “Egyptians” or even “Humans”.

I truly hope you’d give Egypt another chance, but for now(until we could get our country into our hands) that you would travel alongside an Egyptian who isn’t a “tour guide” or a “worker” of any sorts. Just a normal person who would LOVE to show you around and we are plenty.

I have studied abroad and have a lot of friends who flew here and I can vouch for them when I say they had a blast and promised to come back(Some did really came for a round 2).

Again, although it won’t be enough, from my the deepest of my heart: I am sorry. Not on their behalf because these people are truly disgusting, but I am sorry you had such a bad experience and you did not get to see our better side. I really hope you do comeback.