03 Nov 2021
We had such a fantastic time on this tour. Reflections Travel was incredibly easy to work with. They were willing to customize our experience based on our timing and interests. All of our guides arranged by Reflections were top notch. In Upper Egypt, ask for Roshdy Khodary to be your guide if you can. He is immensely knowledgeable about the area and its culture and history and will go out of his way to make sure you have a once in a lifetime experience. Roshdy knows how to navigate unruly crowds of tourists and crazy Egyptian traffic and who to talk to maximize your limited time in the area.
Our family rarely hires guides, instead preferring to use guide books and figure things out on our own. In this case, planning our trip through Reflections and trusting their guides was absolutely the right decision. I am confident that our trip to Egypt would not have been nearly as fulfilling without him. We certainly would have been taken advantage of as clumsy tourists without expert guidance. Roshdy in particular truly went above and beyond for us. He gave us honest advice on the experiences we couldn't miss and the experiences that were less important. He was full of laughs, easy-going and constantly working behind the scenes for us (he also knows the perfect places to take pictures).