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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3192829, member: 87200&quot;]It is true that there are large leavened loaves for sale at a price of 1 pound (100 piastres) but these are infrequently seen, and not common in Upper Egypt. The average everyday Egyptian walks over to the local bakery in the morning and purchases 5 loaves of pita or flatbread for 25 piastres. The bakers take them directly from the oven and throw them in front of you on the counter, so you need a bag or you will burn your hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>I traveled around Egypt for four months a few years back and relied on a diet of flatbread, hummus, fuul (mashed fava beans), falafel, koshari, and occasional fried fish or roast chicken. The food never set me back much as it was very inexpensive. I procured lodging at local hotels (not expensive tourist hotels charging the equivalent of $200 per night) so I typically spent about 30 pounds per evening (the equivalent at the time of $6).</p><p><br /></p><p>I managed to get around the country by rail (stops in most small towns in the Nile Valley), donkey, camel, bus (to Mt. Sinai from Cairo) and from Alexandria to Siwa Oasis, and service taxi on occasion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ended up with more money when I finished the trip then when I started out, so if you are a frugal traveler it is kind of a paradise especially considering all of the living history of Pharaonic times, Ptolemaic times, the Roman and Byzantine era, and of course Islamic times) you can witness in the towns, temples, churches, mosques, fortresses and other locales. By the time I left my Arabic had improved greatly...</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, a side story to this excellent thread...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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