The first day in Egypt was booked for the biggest and probably the most famous ancient sight, Giza and pyramids! We drove by bus (a luxury one with air condition and all) from the hotel we had stayed over night to the Citadel mosque area first. The place was beautiful but crowded. In Egypt it's possible to visit inside the mosque and it's allowed even for women although you happen to be infidel.
 

Simple purchase in an Egyptian bazaar is something too complicated to a simple European person. You can never know what the price is if you want to buy something. You have to ask the price and you will hear some astronomical amount of money, like 150 LE (Egyptian pounds). Dickering is an essential part of commerce. You have to negotiate about the price long and poor your whole soul into it. You can offer 5 LE at first. The salesman will come down to 100 LE, you offer 10 LE, salesman 50 and so on. Finally the price can be 15 LE and you shake hands. The deal is done. If the salesman smiles, you paid too much. If he looks sad, you did good purchase. When I bought nice stone scarabs, I was smiling but the salesman wasn't. When I bought local clothes to our oriental party, the salesman was smiling very wide! Sometimes if the trade is good, the seller can serve a cup of tea, but I didn't see any tea cups after the cloth salesman (figuratively) robbed me. One of our groups sold his winter jacket, or in fact he swapped it for scarves. He smiled wide, the jacket was old and not so valuable. When you travel to the places where tourists have travelled many years, you will see shocking things like this text "HaLVaT hinnaT Tässä LiiKKassä". It's written in Finnish with a small spelling error, "cheap prices in this shop". Everybody knew one Finnish word, "terve - hello", but English was the language I used with them.