12 Oct 2021
Our tour guide Manar and driver Abdallah took us on a whirlwind tour of popular Cairo cuisine. Manar is an incredibly friendly and personable tour guide. I highly recommend this tour if you want a nice sample of what the locals eat and access to see some parts of the city tourists usually wouldn't know about. Abdallah is an extraordinary driver too - something you can only appreciate once you've seen Cairo traffic. We went to five different restaurants around the city trying a different delicious local favorite at each one. By the end of the tour we were full, and had a few left-overs to take back to the hotel. As an added bonus, Manar took us to a papyrus art shop where we learned how papyrus paper is made and got some fascinating Egyptian art history. Manar also took us to an scented oil shop where we got to sample many locally produced oils and got an interesting lesson on how perfumes and essential oils are made. Manar also did a great job of telling us about various points of interest as we drove through the city.