Take Egypt Home
The best thing you bring back shouldn't be bought at the airport
Four things Egypt makes properly, arranged before you arrive and ready during your trip — with your name, your face or your fitting in them.
Most Egypt souvenirs are bought in the last hour of a trip, from whatever happens to be near the hotel. The good ones are made to order and take time — which is exactly the thing a traveller never has and a travel company always does. We know your dates. That is the whole idea.
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Four collections
How it works
Two ways in, depending on where you are
Before you arrive
Made while you pack
- 1Choose
- 2Personalise
- 3We confirm the price
- 4It gets made
- 5Collect on your trip
Already in Egypt
Seen, tried, chosen
- 1Tell us your dates
- 2We check what's there
- 3We book the appointment
- 4Visit and try
- 5Take it with you
Best for clothing and fragrance, where fit and scent are not screen decisions.
Gifts
The ones you bring back for other people
A cartouche carries a name, so it is the rare gift that cannot be bought for the wrong person. A papyrus can hold a family that never came on the trip. An oil is small enough to bring six of. If you tell us who they are for, we will tell you which of the four actually suits them.
Start with a nameNot sure what to buy in Egypt at all?
We wrote a guide to the things worth bringing home and the things that are not, independent of whether you buy them from us.
Souvenirs worth bringing home →Questions
Before you ask
Not quite. There is no cart and nothing is charged here. You tell us what you are after, we come back with the specification, the price and the date it can be ready, and you decide then. It works the way the rest of Egypt Eye works — a conversation with a person, not a checkout.
Because anything personalised takes time to make, and the alternative is spending an afternoon of a short trip trying to arrange it from a hotel lobby. Telling us your arrival date is the whole trick: the piece is made while you are still at home, so it is finished rather than started when you land.
Say so and we will tell you honestly what is possible in the days you have left. For clothing and fragrance being here is an advantage rather than a problem — both are better chosen in person, and we arrange the appointment.
No. This is open to anyone travelling to Egypt. It is more useful if we are already arranging your trip, because we know your dates and where you will be, but it is not a condition.
That is agreed with you when we confirm the piece, because it depends on where you are staying and how your itinerary runs. It is one of the things the reply covers, rather than something we decide for you in advance.
Ask. This section is built around collection during a trip, which is what makes it different from ordering online from home, so shipping is handled case by case rather than promised on this page.