Adamantium wrote:I had a similar experience at the Pyramids. A woman jumped in front of me. I informed her there was a queue to which she responded arrogantly. "I am a tour guide."
Scottishtourist wrote:A "tour group"will always come first
I was not aware of this rule.
Scottishtourist wrote:
They're paying big bucks for the trip,the service..and a "hassle"free experience!
Pumping far more into the economy than you as a single traveller ever will, in such a short space of time.
Many tourists won't ever have the chance or financial means to go back again.You have both!
You can go anytime..they can't!
I did not choose to travel all the way to Egypt just to be rushed through the sites, listening to someone screaming in poor German what I of course had read about years before getting the chance to see it for myself.
I do not travel to Edfu to have a tour guide push me away so that he can prepare his Luxor scam where no Egyptians can hear him and not say a word about the relief he pretends to be admiring like I did.
I do not spend the whole day going to Kom Ombo in order to make way for loud passengers in party mood, just out of the shower with fifty fragrances of duty free perfume having a quick before dinner stop at the temple.
I do not fly to Cairo to be ignored by stinking groups straight from perfume palaces who expect you to be aware of them and out of their way at the museum, when I have paid my own ticket and decided what to see while they do not even look where they are going.
I do not know who can afford more or who pumps more money into the economy, it is about common decency and how you represent your own culture! I do not buy second class tickets to the sights. I can visit the Pyramids and Sakkara anytime I want, that is true, but not as cheap and fast as a mass tourist.
PS:
The fact that I no longer share my thoughts at sunrise does not mean that I suddenly sleep at dawn.