The salers are very unrespectful people, not all, but 60% are very annoying people. Very expensive a lot of them. One store tryied to sold a small bag of herbs (total no more than 50grs the 3 herbs) in more than 150 pounds!!!! Next day i went a normal store, and i bought a lot of things, even bee honey (big one), pepper, peanuts, seeds, cocoa, cinammon, really a lot of things and excellent attention and quality and i paid total 130 pounds for ALL THIS. I loved souk before. Now woman cant go alone, and if you only watch, they want force you to buy!!!! Its sad, but i avoid even walk there. I would like the old man there teach and FORCE the youngers to be respectful and dont thing harrasement is funny for woman. Is not. Im not "sweety", "honey", "sister", "asal",...
Read moreIf you want to know what it feels like to be a dying animal with vultures circling your body, this is the perfect place to have such an experience. As a tourist, it is not possible to even glance at the shops to see what might be in them without having 4 or 5 men physically blocking you from walking down the street putting their faces into your personal space and telling you 'come into my shop, no hassle!' - the point is that they are already hassling you by not allowing you to peacefully walk down the street and even look at something without getting in your way. By the end of the street when I had only two men blocking me and telling me that 'this is the end of the market' as if I would like to turn around and go back through the nightmare I just said 'thank...
Read moreLocal souvenir market for getting yourself ripped off. Don't buy anything from there unless you really like something, salesman are very pushy and they will use all dirty sales tricks to sell you stuffs, be very very careful before buying anything from there and if you have to buy bargain hard, not in regular european/american way but in proper asian way i.e you start with the 1/4 of the ask price and close it at half of his ask.
If you don't like something, just say sukran with a smile and keep walking. No need to panic or be under pressure of buying something because you checked-it out or asked the...
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