Is Egypt Still Safe for Tourists? 

One of the many things that makes my job among the absolute best in the world is that I get to meet so many amazing people like this and spend time with them and see their reactions to experiencing bucket-list sites and having once-in-a-lifetime experiences all over Egypt. Two weeks was way too short and I hope to see you all again soon in Egypt, the US, the moon or anywhere!!

Good points, but a few small corrections... there are a few very small Western military bases in Egypt over in the eastern Siani that help enforce the peace treaty under UN mandate. But you make a very good point that Egypt doesn't have the same active Islamist movements like other countries in the region. And although I would suspect that many Egyptians do consider themselves Arabs too, you also make a good point here again that Egypt is indeed a very diverse country and many Egyptians do consider themselves ethnically descendant from the ancient inhabitants of Kemet, especially the huge Coptic community, as well as many ethnically Balkan, Turkish, Armenians who have been here for many many centuries. Most people who come here as tourists just think that Egypt is like all other countries in the region and don't realized how diverse and mixed it really is, and Egyptians are very proud of that heritage.

That's correct, thank you

I hope you're here now and have been enjoying your vacation. I've seen so many people here this month and last month who have said they were so thankful that they didn't buy into the fake hype that the whole region is all the same and all unsafe. It's complete bull. Have fun!!

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She will be perfectly fine traveling to Egypt. All tourists just have to exercise the same level of vigilance that they would in any foreign country and in any large city for the sake of personal safety.

Hey, Dena. Not only that, but things are 100% normal on the ground here since then. Not a single protest or incident or demonstration that I've seen or heard of since then and just business as usually all day, every day here in Cairo and all over the country.

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Hey, Malia. Thanks so much for the kind words!!! I was just in the US for a quick visit the other week when all of this mess started, so I was seeing first-hand what was showing on tv there 24/7 and felt compelled to make a video about this phenomenon that happens all the time when something happens somewhere in the Middle East. Usually it's not even in Egypt, but the media makes it look like the whole region is on fire. LOL I'm glad that you and your sister are not deterred from coming here and enjoying the trip of a lifetime. Can't wait to meet you both!!

Thanks!!!

That's very very true. It's great that you went there multiple times and could see and judge for yourself what Egypt and the Egyptian people are really like. It sounds like your experience there with people being warm and hospitable and friendly and welcoming was very typical. It's always wise to take the narrative portrayed in for-profit media channels with a grain of salt because they have a huge incentive to maximize watch time and clicks, which they do through fear-mongering and playing into stereotypes. No news channel in the world wants to report that everything is safe, calm, and normal because that's not profitable.

It's been here for 5000+ years and it will be here for another 5000+ for sure. So whenever you can finally make it here, you'll certainly enjoy the trip of a lifetime!!

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You're very welcome.

All quiet on the Egyptian front 🥱

Just got back from Egypt less than a week ago; was there for about two weeks. Egypt is safe and welcoming and will be happy to see you in late January. You will love your trip.

Hi, Daniel. Fair point. Yes, this video was published on October 25th and was put together in the days leading up to the publication date. However, things have become even MORE normal since then. I haven't seen or heard of a single protest here again, nor have there been any incidents at all that I know of here in Egypt. In fact, 1.3 million tourists visited Egypt in October from 80 different countries, which was an 8% increase over last year despite the conflict in neighboring countries. It's literally just live and business as usual here on the ground in Egypt.

Thank you for your respond. I will be checking back.@@TheEgyptTravelChannel

Not if you do your homework and your research and know how to avoid the scammers. That's the whole purpose of the first 10 episodes or so of The Egypt Travel Podcast series here - the original one.

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Connie, since you're from the United States, I can pretty much guarantee that you're MUCH closer to civil unrest than any Egyptian is. How many murders, robberies, rapes, muggings, and other attacks or violent crimes occurred in your state (which is what?) in the past week, month, year? You'd be much safer getting on a plane and coming to Egypt than you would be staying in your own home in the United States.

@@TheEgyptTravelChannel very True Israel and the United States has Fox news on they do everything in their power to divide countries, we had 35,000 shootings and 400 mass shootings in 2023 , the far right supremacists love their guns and they have far right extremists in Israel too including Benjamin Netanyahu

You literally just contradicted yourself multiple times in the same paragraph, sentence after sentence. I'm happy if nonsensical people stop following me because we don't need to waste the time of those who read comments to engage and learn with this type of contradictory nonsense. You started off saying "there's no one in the square because they are banned from protesting." Then you go on to say "There HAVE been protest in Cairo..." If they're banned, there wouldn't have been any. Despite this first mindless contradiction, protests were not banned. They did occur in some controlled spaces and situations, and I most certainly did talk about that, which you conveniently left out in your next contradiction where command that I should have done as you say and "acknowledged that there were some protests." However, I not only did that, but I showed video of them and talked about them and the nuances behind them in depth. And I'm not "pretending" anything... I'm showing what everyone else here in Egypt - Egyptians and non-Egyptians alike - area all saying because we are actually here on the ground, not making assumptions from afar and relying on what's on TV to come online and post nonsensical rants. Take that garbage elsewhere. I have zero patience for deranged trolling.

Unauthorized public protest are banned in Egypt and specifically in Tahrir square. To stand in Tahrir Square and say look there’s no protest seems inaccurate to me since protests are not allowed there in the first place. Everything that came after that comment became suspect. I’m not trolling you, I went out of my to find a video of yours that I watched a few weeks ago in order to subscribe hoping you would post something about what’s going on on the ground. I get your point, you’re on the ground telling everyone it’s fine and I’m saying I don’t believe it, yep, I need to work on that. Have the government taken additional measures to protect the tourists, have the hotels, the travel companies taken additional measures? Is there more security on the sites? Is it your observation that the measures currently in place are adequate and that there’s nothing extraordinary happening on the ground to warrant extra protection?

Thanks, Asem.

Safer than virtually all countries in the West. You're not going to get mugged or shot or robbed walking down the street here in Egypt. In North American and Europe, the chances of that happening go up 1000x.

Hurghada is fine for safety. Getting over 30c on some days.

Yes, Hurghada is a major tourist area and all of the major tourist areas in Egypt are very well protected within an advanced "security bubble" that the government invests a lot of money in maintaining. The areas that are not safe are places that you are not allowed to go anyway (very remote areas out in the desert or mountain wilderness). The government concentrates its security resources on protecting and securing popular areas so that tourists can relax and enjoy their visits.

Yes, for sure. You'll be safe as long as you do everything legally and don't let anyone scam you into taking you out into areas of the desert that are off limits for tourists. The government of Egypt makes it illegal for foreigners to go into unsecure areas anyway, so as long as you're doing everything legally, you'll be perfectly safe. Enjoy your trip!!

No it's safe

Hi John, wanted to know your thoughts on this.

Hey there. You're correct that incidents like these occurred a number of years ago. I don't remember the exact years but I remember the incidents you're talking about because they too were widely misreported on in western media. From what I remember, some foreign visitors were accidentally injured and/or killed when they got caught up in the crossfire of what was essentially criminal gang or clan violence activity that had spiked at the time. In other words, they were very unfortunate to have been in the path of that, but they were not targeted for being tourists. I recall a bus carrying some tourists going through a very local poor neighborhood (no clue why they took that route because we usually take the highways) and getting hit by some sort of homemade explosive that was intended for another car. And I don't remember what was ultimately found to be the cause of the other one, but I remember that one occurring closer to the construction site of the GEM so people thought tourists were being targeted. But that area of western Giza used to be a lot rougher than it is now. I've personally been out shopping for custom metal pieces in a local ironworkers neighborhood before when a fight broke out and I saw someone crack someone else's skull with some kind of metal brick. Violence between humans and groups of humans is everywhere in the world and in every country and city. But if we only went to places with no fights, no robberies, no muggings, and no murders, we'd be sitting at home for our whole lives. While that type of inter-clan warfare was mostly relegated to the more rural areas of middle Egypt where tourists were not even allowed to go, occasionally it would spill over into the larger cities since family members migrate sometimes and old family vendettas follow them (just like used to be the case in Italy - think mafia warfare - and the US - think "Hatfields and McCoys" or google it if it's unfamiliar). But luckily those types of inter-family and inter-clan "wars" are a) rare and b) fading out, if not already faded out. I haven't heard of anything like that in Cairo or a major city here since, and honestly I had not seen that spill into the cities here in the 17 or so years before that here either. I honestly think those two episodes in 2018 or 2019 were rare occurrences of rural feuds spilling over into the city, but the government here now is much better at ensuring public order and security than in years and decades past. And honestly, this type of thing occurs more in the US and UK and Italy and Mexico and Brazil and other places in the Americas and Europe than it does here in Egypt... by FAR!! In Egypt, for example, the homicide rate is about 1.3 per 100,000 (and this is local crime, not against foreigners at all, which is virtually 0.0). However, in the US the homicide rate is 7.8 per 100,000, 21.3 in Brazil, 26.1 in Mexico, 31.2 in the Bahamas, and 49.6 in the US Virgin Islands, among other popular tourist destinations around the world. Hopefully that answers your questions and puts them into a bit more perspective.

@@TheEgyptTravelChannelHi John, thanks so much for getting back to me, and thanks for your thoughts! Also wondering about anti Israeli sentiment, as the news reported that Israeli tourists were shot at by a policeman in Alexandria in October this year, wondering what the sentiment is now, and if there is kind of risk? Thank you!

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You're very welcome. I'm glad if this can help ease your mom's stress about you traveling here now. My poor parents had to worry about me living here right after the Iraq War started and during the Arab Spring, so I'm sure Egypt is responsible for all of their grey hair. haha But through all of the ups and downs, I've been fine here for over 20 years of coming and going. Have an amazing visit!! And your other travels look awesome, btw.

It is horrible indeed. This what a military dictatorship looks like.

Or maybe Egyptians just have better things to do and know how to express their support for their causes in more effective ways than ones that harm their own interests.

@prhasn Still trolling?

@@TheEgyptTravelChannel what interest is there when you agree to a genocide happening to your brothers there was a protest there but "things are under control" because they arrested more than 40 people

@@mahmodabdien8186 I’m Egyptian and I consider Hamas to be our enemy. Hamas helped ISIS in Sinai kill Christians and Sufis until the Egyptian military destroyed the Hamas tunnels those terrorists used to attack the Sinai from Gaza.

So your location is not anywhere even remotely close to Egypt (you're in Indonesia), so have you ever even been here? It doesn't seem so, since the first part of what you say is completely not true at all, and the second part of what you say is the same in virtually any country. I think all Egyptians would call complete BS on your claim that Egypt is unsafe. And millions of people pass through Tahrir Square every day, so saying no one can go there is just hilarious. And most all countries require a permit to do professional videography in public areas, including yours. So why can't Egypt require that too? Tourists or citizens filming for personal purposes is completely fine, as is demonstrated in this very video when the police officer came up to me to ask if I was part of a news crew or an individual filming for personal use and then smiled and said "Have a nice time" when he saw that I was an amateur. Don't spread false information online. It's just wrong.

@@TheEgyptTravelChannel I visited Egypt many times and after the military coup you can see the difference on people faces. Your video is like someone going to North Korea and saying how safe it is. Insanity.

You clearly have an agenda. Just got back from Egypt and it is exactly as safe as John's video claims. Also drove through Tahir Square and visited the Egyptian Museum on the square and there are plenty of people there.@@prhasn

You are either a Muslim brotherhood member or a sympathizer. We know the Muslim brotherhood has opened offices in Malaysia and Indonesia. You should vote for them to rule your country.

@prhasn Lol. I duuno what Egypt are you talking about XD.

Hey, Adam. I'm really glad you found this video helpful. I totally understand people's hesitance, and I don't fault anyone for taking the personal decision to postpone a trip for their own comfort. As long as people are fully informed about the reality on the ground here, then the decision from there is a personal one. The pyramids have been here for nearly 5000 years and they'll be here for another 5000 for sure. I think you'll probably end up making it here at some point during that time frame, hopefully. hahaha

You must have watched another video. Donepezil, Rivastigmine, and Galantamine are all approved by the FDA to help with memory loss. Wishing you the best.

Exactly, quite a joke.

No place is completely safe.

Yes.

Also very true.

You're very welcome. You're exactly right on Western media... they show what sells ads, which means they show what keeps people glued to the tv screen with fear and anxiety. Commercial or for-profit news organizations haven't been in the news business for two decades now.

more like a government agent.

Always welcome. Enjoy your trip!

Very true. I always tell people that I feel way safer walking around the back alleys of Cairo at night than I do walking around Washington, DC in broad daylight. People in Egypt are kind and family-oriented and they still believe in manners and hospitality here, which has largely broken down in western societies these days.

@@TheEgyptTravelChannelSorry, I’m here to see if it’s safe, not whether people who want to travel instead of having children will be shunned there too.

1997? it's 2023 dude! Have you heard about the 2012/2013 Egyptian eradication for these Islamic groups? C'mon man

Hello from the future, It seems like your are stuck in 1997~2000 you have to start investing in betcoin when it comes out

Hey @experiencedtraveller9452 - Where are you from and what's your real human name, for starters? What "experience" do you have in traveling? It seems that such experience must have been decades ago and you haven't been anywhere in the last two decades while the world has changed considerably around you. You reference events that took place in 1997 as an "experienced" traveler??? I'd suggest you check the local news in your own country and city (which are what, by the way?) and reference the local murder rate closer to home for comparison. Then maybe you'll realize that Egypt is far safer than the majority of Western countries.

@vegeta5490 Can we both time travel back and get in on this deal with this "experienced" traveler too? LOL

Very good point @Mokhtar22278 MAJOR shifts have happened in many countries and regions since 1997. The smartphone didn't even exist back then. We used paper maps when we traveled (which this "experienced" traveler must remember well). And Pluto was still a planet.

Hi, Michael. There are tens of thousands of tourists still here today and tomorrow and arriving every day. You'll be perfectly fine coming here today or in 2 weeks or 2 months. Don't let the news deter you from having the trip of a lifetime.

How is it? I’ll be there a few days 😅

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Why would I shut up just because a random internet troll suggests it in a childish outburst?

@@TheEgyptTravelChannel man you made your point in 2 minutes. Rest is full of repetition. You say its safe yet police stopped you to check what the hell you are doing. Its not safe. Stop comparing Egypt with western europe. Ridiculous

You clearly did not watch the video. You’re desperately scanning for things to critique without a) even listening to or reading what’s being said, or b) knowing anything about the place you’re talking about at all. Case in point: the police officer came over to ask a question, which the text on the screen clearly explains, then he smiled and walked away. This is a far cry from being evidence for your crazy claim that Egypt is “not safe.” And the “repetition” you’re talking about is in different places, scenarios, and contexts, all of which reinforce the same points which, unfortunately for your uninformed argument, is completely counter to your uninformed argument. Don’t go on online platforms and just spout off at the mouth without knowing what you’re talking about or having experience in a place you’re discussing. That habit contributes to the trollification of the internet, and this channel is a NO TROLLS environment. 🚫

You first.

@@Can-xx2nsHow do you know?