marky No.1 wrote:Peter wrote:once you're sucked in you might have to pay a bob-or-two for a young local to get you out.
Did'nt know you had it in you Peter
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I haven't.
It's Doris. She's always saying "...come on love, let's just go round the next corner!"
Bit like when I was in the RN.
I led from the front. My lads always followed me, but apparantly only out of curiosity
Once embedded in the souqs there are something like 12 exits, but about 600 dead-ends. The deeper you get the more authentic it gets, but by then you'll have lost the comfort of the company of other tourists, and feel slightly unnerved, and lost!
So it's best to hire a guide.
On the subjects of guides, there are good ones and crap ones.
Try and work out what sort of things you want to see, and make sure the guide understands what you want and expect - you are paying for it.
Otherwise you could spend half of your 3 hour tour in his cousins carpet shop!
I've got an house full of wonderful momentos of getting lost in Saudi Arabia
My middle name should be Hindsight