Reflecting on my tour last week, one of the most interesting things, I think, was the diference between visiting these places with my Turkish classmates as apposed to the other exchange students I went with my first time. There were a few differences, but the one I found the most interesting was how the vendors interacted with us. I made this to contrast the two situations:
When I went to Egypt, my Dad arranged for us to meet up with a brother of one of his graduate students. We were in a taxi going to one of the sites and the taxi driver told the brother he could charge us more for the ride and split the profit with him. The brother informed the taxi driver that we just wanted the locals' rate.
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