"I customize my tours to suit the guest rather than offer predetermined itineraries that the customer must accept," says Debbie Senters, owner and operator of Casual Cairo detours, which was established in 2000. Debbie, an American in her mid-40s, visited Cairo for the first time in the mid-1990s and fell in love with "a different world." Neither an Egyptologist nor a historian, Debbie has a love for this exotic country she wants to share with others.

Casual Cairo detours will provide an Egyptologist to accompany you to the Egyptian Museum or to pharaonic sites at your request.

Drivers can be hired by the trip, the day, or for several days. Casual Cairo detours recommends drivers on request.

Casual Cairo detours does not book hotel rooms, but is happy to provide recommendations in all price categories.

Debbie serves as a volunteer expert on Egypt for two Q&A websites on the Internet, Allexperts.com and worldsurface.com, a site dedicated to sustainable tourism for backpackers and independent travelers. She contributes to the Weissmann Travel Reports, used by American and Canadian travel agencies and writes a monthly column on the hidden pleasures of Egypt for the British Community Association magazine.