If you want to get off the beaten track a bit in the Cairo area then Casual Cairo Detours will help you do exactly that.
The tours they organise give a unique insight into Egypt as they use local guides and drivers along with their expat English-speaking guide who accompanies each trip.
Their tours allow you to see and experience parts of Egypt that most travellers would find very difficult to access on their own.
They are really friendly and offer the perfect way of seeing more of Cairo and the delta area.

www.casualcairodetours.com/
+2(02) 2415 2726

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Beware of tourist traps:

Me and a group of friends got goaded into taking a camel and horse ride around the pyramids. It was all very cheesy but the pyramids looked great. After half an hour, we were all getting a bit bored and so the young Egyptian lad at the front of the camel caravan decided to slap the back of the lead camel, we went charging through the desert, the horse that I was on was clearly agitated by all of this and bit the rump of the horse in front. The horse in front responded by kicking back at the horse that I was on and clipped me on the shin. Bloody hell, it hurt! When we got back to the stable I had blood running all down my shin. The owner took me into the toilet (reminiscent of the Trainspotting toilet) and applied purple lotion onto my leg - I limped off and sulked behind the sphinx.

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