Aswan Shopping Tips by Rachelynn

After we checked out of the cruise ship at about 1pm at Aswan, we put up at Marhaba Hotel for a few hours as our flight to Cairo were at 10pm at night!

So we wandered around the streets of Aswan and Bingo! We came across this colourful bazaar at Saad Zaghlool St.

What To Buy: This bazaar sells everything, silver, cartouches, vegetables ( gosh, their cabbages are HUGE!), perfume bottles, scarves, all sorts of souvenirs and the colourful sand bottles, bags, spices of course! & tea leaves.

What To Pay: We paid

- 3 of us paid 40 Egyptian Pound each for a silver cartouche, with our names engraved.
- 5 of us paid 40 egyptian pound for a box of 5 large perfume bottles
- 2 of us paid 15 Egyptian pound for a A4 size bag od peppermint tea leaves.

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Address: Saad Zaghlool St
Directions: About 2 streets behind Marhaba Hotel & the Tourism Ministry

For tea lovers, remember to buy back some tea leaves from Aswan, if you happen to be at the bazaar that was mentioned in my shopping tip.

The peppermint and hibiscus tea leaves i brought back are fantastic! The flavour is very strong and it's simple the best! My mum love it and is lamenting that how could i buy so few!!!

It cost me 15 EP for one big bag of peppermint tea leaves, but i paid more for hibiscus at 45 EP. A big Bag too.

A tip though, for peppermint tea leaves, try to ask the shop owner not to give you those with too many stems.



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