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EGYPT I |
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We arrived in Egypt in October/2000 for a three days stay in Cairo and one day in Luxor. Just like 99,9% of the tourists, the "Great Pyramids of Giza" (18km from downtown Cairo) was the first place we visited in "Great Cairo Area". |
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This "complex" is composed by the Pyramid of Cheops (the biggest one), Chephren and Mycerinus (the smallest one), who were father, son and grandson and the imposing figure of the Sphinx. The Great Pyramids of Giza are so impressive that, to have an idea of its hugeness, Napoleon estimated that there would be enough stones in these three main pyramids to build a wall, three meters high, all around France!!!
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Cairo/Egypt - October/2000 |
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Cairo/Egypt - October/2000 |
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We had the chance to enter into the Pyramid of Cheops and... perhaps, we may say that our experience inside it was a deception. Besides the narrow corridors we had to go through (some of them with only 1.30m high and one meter wide, the suffocating atmosphere, an unbearable heat and an awful musty smell, there is nothing to see inside! All the richness of it was taken to the Cairo National Museum. Anyway, only 200 persons per day are allowed to enter this Pyramid so, we felt lucky as we arrived there and were told that we could visit it inside. Well, we may consider that as part of the "Egyptian experience". |
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go to Egypt II |
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Cairo/Egypt - October/2000 |
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