Egypt Shopping Guide | What to buy on your first visit to Egypt

Back and forth to Egypt travel, diving to 4 times, each time will buy a lot of souvenirs back home, the last suitcase overweight 10 pounds, are souvenirs, Egypt's souvenirs really good looking and very distinctive. Introduce some Egyptian souvenirs to your friends:

1️⃣ Egyptian sand and grass paintings
📍 Khalili Market
Sand grass painting is a unique craft in Egypt. Ancient Egyptian sand grass painting can be preserved for thousands of years. The paper made of sand grass is dried and painted on it. The price of sand grass painting is also uneven, according to the size, the popularity of the artist, or the special process (such as gold powder or silver powder, or do the luminous effect) the price is slightly higher, many well-known painters will have a signature of sand grass painting, some do not but also hand-painted, when buying, printing can be seen at a glance, hand-painted traces are obvious. Khalili has a big shop, sell to the Chinese people the price is very high, and the attitude is not very good, Khalili buy advice to find a few more compare the price and then buy!

Find a very beautiful shop that sells papyrus drawings!! Look good!! Various Egyptian elements, then, the point is!! This shop can also DIY, you can write your name in ancient Egyptian script!! Yes, you read that right, it's ancient Egyptian, not Arabic. Yes, the boss wrote it in front of us!! It's our names. Ha, ha, ha, ha. He said it looked festive, suitable for us as newlyweds.


2️⃣ Egyptian hand-made oil bottle

📍 Khalili Market
Egyptian essential oil bottles are really beautiful! The market probably every shop will have, the more delicate the more special the price is higher, the price of a single style is lower, remember to bargain in the market to buy essential oil bottles, the disadvantage is not convenient to check, have to be careful, too easy to break, ready to buy bottles of the little sister, remember to take bubble packaging to Egypt.

It's true that I came all the way back from Egypt. The whole carrying home, because it is the mother asked for, bought a dozen perfume bottles, almost no one is the same, should be handmade random pattern, glass is thinner than paper, accidentally broken. Three of the big ones are for perfume, and the little ones are from the Khalili market, five in a box. The smallest can not express can not be checked, the damage rate is particularly high. Packed four or five layers of foam paper + paper towels, especially to occupy a place, the role of this is to install flavor or when the arts and crafts.


3️⃣ gold jewelry in Egyptian design
📍 Gold stores in major shopping malls
Egypt's handmade silver jewelry, gold jewelry is really beautiful, the style of domestic really can not buy, in Egypt's poison, as a jewelry lover, how can control not to buy it. You can't buy them all, sisters. You can't buy them all. Egyptian gold is mostly 18-karat,The style is very Egyptian, with Egyptian native characteristics. Many styles are inlaid with turquoise, coral, fritillary and so on.

If you are not assured to buy in a small market or shop, you can look at the gold store in the big shopping mall in Cairo, I am in a small gold store in Cairo to buy, the price is acceptable, the boss is quoted according to the number of gold grams, many gold jewelry is inlaid with Egyptian gems, the style is very beautiful, interested in Egyptian culture sisters, you can start.

4️⃣ Egyptian handmade silver jewellery
📍 Khalili Market

In the evening, I went to visit Khalili Bazaar with my friends. I entered this Egyptian 🇪🇬, a jewelry shop with local characteristics made of pure handmade silver. It was really beautiful! I love the key to life! The amulet of the ancient Egyptians! Each symbol has a symbolic meaning behind it, and each one I want to buy!

Egyptian handmade silver jewelry style is special, will use the symbols of ancient Egyptian culture to do decoration, every time to Egypt must buy things, each time can not control to buy a lot, in addition, to shop around, especially in Khalili, many shops are extremely high, before buying 1 gram 170, after meeting other little sister 1 gram 60.70. About, the price difference is outrageous! Many silver jewelry shops in Khaliline, must see more, the lesson of blood, I spent a lot of money

5️⃣ Egyptian refrigerator magnets

📍 Khalili Market

This physical texture is super good, weight, said stone, we do not know, anyway, casually fall, fall not broken. Halili market street, Tao ah Tao, several have to buy this type, a lot of styles, each does not necessarily have the same style, take a fancy to start, otherwise it is easy to get lost, look back at all can not find back, but also like to buy.
Halili market if better, can find a lot of babies, but it is boring, businesses see foreign faces will lion big opening, so the price of refrigerator stickers is also different, be sure to ask a few more!

6️⃣ camel leather bag
📍 Khalili Market

Camel leather bags are not many, ask local businesses where you can buy, the pattern has Egyptian characteristics, to send friends and relatives are excellent products. If you hate haggling, shop around the Egyptian Museum for souvenirs, all of which are clearly priced.

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