SOUVENIR SHOPPING IN EGYPT

The shoppers, Chantal, Ilona and I

I think in the last posts about my holidays at the Red Sea in Egypt, I wrote a lot about the wonderful things you could buy there for very cheap prices. To give you an overlook about what we have seen and also sometimes bought I put pictures together in a slideshow.

Of course all items were made for the tourist industry but with real stones (or so they said) but with Ilona we had no problem she knows every precious and semi precious stone and nobody could cheat her. She had created jewelery in the past.

These are the stones which were used to create jewelery :


Statues and vases and other decoration items were made mostly out of alabaster or onyx. The prices started for scarabs, cats, bracelets and collars from less than 1 € to maximum 8 €. in the big Supermarket which was located just besides our hotel. There you didn't even have to haggle, the prices were fix and written on the item. In the Alabaster factory you had to haggle of course as usually everywhere.