private tour guide in Cairo after the coronavirus
private tour guide in Cairo after the coronavirus
Back to work as a private tour guide in Cairo was a great pleasure for me after this long period of staying home because of coronavirus which had disadvantages and advantages, economic disadvantages. Many people were obliged to stay at home without being paid, others, are already homeless, in addition to the fear of hearing about the number of deaths and infected patients.
On the other hand, the advantages for some people were having the time to reorganize their lives, improve their professional skills, and eat healthy food at home.
This time, I would like to tell you about my recent experience to practice my job as a private tour guide in Cairo after the coronavirus pandemic.
It started when my cell phone rang, I answered, it was a gentleman who spoke French he asked me if I was a private tour guide in Cairo, I answered yes, then he asked about my availability the next day to accompany him as a tour guide to visit the Giza plateau, I answered yes and of course, it was with great pleasure and then, I asked him how he had come to Egypt, as I thought there were no flights to carry tourists? He replied that he was not a tourist and that he came because he works in Egypt.
The next day, I went to meet him in front of the Marriott Mena House hotel because he had his own driver.
The site was quite empty, there were almost no tourists. After visiting the Giza plateau, we stopped for lunch in a restaurant in downtown and then, we went to visit the citadel of Saladin with its two mosques, of Mohamed Ali (alabaster mosque) which dates back to the nineteenth century and that of Sultan ibn Qalawun mosque, that dates back to the Mamluk era in the thirteenth century then we stopped for a panoramic photo from the terrace of the citadel. The next visit was old Cairo (Coptic area) where we visited the Hanging Church. We ended up with a stop at El Moqattam hill to see the Fatimid Cairo from the top.
Working and seeing the people who work in the tourist sites that I have always known and met, going out to work and of course earning money for me, was a great pleasure.
In conclusion; working as a private tour guide in Cairo for me is a return to work and a return to life.
