This is where you go to haggle over trinkets and look at all of the stuff for sale. You can find statues, clothes, water pipes, and food. Our guide showed us the entrance to the bazaar and waited in a tea house for us to finish shopping. Almost immediately, I noticed someone following us. After two or three shops, we immediately went back to the tea house and asked the guide what was going on. The guide explained, the follower was part of the tour and they do this since the blast a few weeks ago.
Blast? What blast? We thought Cairo was one of the safest cities in Africa. We introduced ourselves to the guard and had a good time wandering the streets of the bazaar. It was weird having someone follow you. After a while, you do get used to it.
Later in the day, we asked our guide more about the guard. The guard was an employee of the Egyptian government. Since the N1H1 virus and the blast, Egypt is working to ensure nothing else happens to the tourists. Our earlier understandings were correct. The Egyptian economy is based on tourism. If bad things happen to tourists, bad things happen to the Egyptian economy.
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