Saqqara and Dashur
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Saqqara and Dashur
Armed with travel books and a lot of pre-trip research, we always travel independently. But occasionally, there are those places where a guide is totally worth it. ...What do you recommend for Saqqara and Dashur - guide or no guide? Thanks.
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Saqqara is a much more extensive site than Dahshur, and a guide would be helpful. That said, there are areas where your guide may leave you for "free time", and the baksheesh of guards and "docents" who will offer to show you tombs, take your picture, etc.. Dahshur does not necessitate a guide.
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I'd take a guide to both as, like Binthair said, Sakkara really is huge and a guide will increase your enjoyment and understanding of it a great deal, and if you've taken a guide there, why do Dashure another day without a guide? The cost difference will be nothing if you have to pay for a car and driver to take you clear out to Dashure on a whole separate trip to avoid having a guide with you there. I think your enjoyment of Dashure will be increased by having someone that knows about it there with you to explain what you are looking at.
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I would get a guide and driver for sure.
You can contact Debbie at [email protected] she lives in Cairo and is very good.
You can contact Debbie at [email protected] she lives in Cairo and is very good.
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These are wonderful sites. You have made a good choice to see them in one day. That will allow a good amount of time at each. I will always have these two in mind when I think of our trip to Egypt.
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