Good sensible advice.

Don’t pay for a show you can’t get to see.  For the day trip around Petra we needed transport, so how would we suddenly manage without transport in the pitch-black cold night?  The agency knew we required transport help, but still loaded the bill with entrance to a Son et Lumiere show we would never be able to reach.

Don’t:

• engage in conversation with vendors if you don’t want to buy anything.
• ask the price of anything unless you want to bargain the price
• believe someone who says “there is nothing at all in that direction”
• answer any approaches like “hello, welcome to Egypt, where do you come from”
• expect to see any women in a street cafe anywhere outside Cairo