02-15-2017, 02:52 PM
3d wrote:
I luckily had dark wrap-around style Oakley sunglasses to avoid eye contact. They WERE relentless. Shopkeepers will come out of their stores and "guide" you off the street into their shops and offer you tea for free. Come in have some tea. It's free. Where are you from? Come, have some tea. Riiiiiight.... Fell for it once on my first day. Never again (td)
I enjoy that atmosphere of the middle eastern bazaar, interaction with the locals.
Maybe because I usually hit the areas off the tourist path, the tea/coffee routine is not so pushy.
Maybe because I do make the eye contact.
It is part of the culture...
Go with bilb's recommendation on riot avoidance.
Even just standing at the distance, clearly having nothing to do with it,
as an American you are easy pickings to lay the blame for whatever problem it is....