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It seems that Egyptians everywhere where tourism happens see tourists as walking ATM machines or at least as rich as Ramses II. Everybody wants to sell you incredibly lousy crap. And be even careful with these children who ask you to change the coins of Euros and cents into a 5 € or 10 € bill. The sum of the coins they ask you to change might even be correct but these kids are never alone and while you are busy to count the coins an other may snatch your wallet and run away. There is no need to change the coins into bills because EUR became a second currency in touristic areas in Egypt so there is always enough need for small change and the coins circulate like the bills exactly as in a Euro Zone country.
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lotharlerch Thu Apr 17, 2008 20:11 UTC
The problem is that Egypt itself does not know coins, even the smallest denominations are paper. But if a tourist has to pay for something 7 € and gives a 10 € note the Egyptians would need inevitably € coins to change... That works perfectly in Turkey. | mara235 Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:26 UTC
the locals who want you to change coins to notes or to Egyptian money don't have anywhere to change them. Banks do not take foreign coins.....think of the trouble sending them back to Europe! | globetrott Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:03 UTC
a good start with 7 tips, den Bäcker mach ich dann auch ;-) |
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