“You are welcome in Egypt!” Shouted nearly everyone to me when I was there last week. I was in the country for about 10 days, traveling around with my godson. He’s a tall, sandy-haired American guy — all smiles and radiating a warm openness — so maybe that’s what inspired the welcome greetings.
Either way, Egypt is a friendly place where people are genuinely happy to see you, especially if you’re a tall, blond American.
It’s also a very cheap place. The Egyptian pound is a nice round 50 to the dollar — it was a lot stronger two years ago, the last time I was in Cairo — and the cost of getting around is so low I often felt compelled to do the math
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