If you hire taxi to take you round the sites of the West Bank, you are bound to get dropped off at Albaster factories with their own shop and Papyrus shops. This is fine to see how they are made, but the pressure to buy can be overwhelming, especially when you are the only ones in the shop as we were! Prices in here are high compared to on the East Bank and they will try to tell you that their shop is the only genuine one around! In the Alabaster shop the shop keeper was trying his best to sell me an item for 150 LE, and when I told him I did not have that sort of money on me, he said that they could collect it from my hotel later! Papyrus in one of these shop was 4 or 5 times as much as on the East Bank, as we bought some genuine papyrus for 10LE (with certificate) from a shop on the West Bank, compared to 40-60 LE in these factories/shops.
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At Least Do This: If you don’t want to visit these places, be sure to tell your taxi driver this before you begin your journey!
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on Dec 18, 2004
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