Egypt: Hawkers Fenced Out of Giza Pyramids

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | August 13th, 2008 | Trackback

In an ongoing seven-year effort to modernize tourism to the Giza Pyramids, authorities have completed a 12-mile fence that encloses the plateau on which the archaeological wonders stand, complete with alarms, motion sensors and a high-tech security system to be monitored around the clock. The hawkers who have made the site a scene of barely controlled chaos for years are being phased out and soon tourists will no longer run the gauntlet of “guides” insisting on providing their services. Rather, visitors will enter through a central security building holding metal detectors and X-ray machines. Tourists will find fewer hassles but it is uncertain how the hawkers and self-appointed guides who prey on them will make ends meet.

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