Built during the 26th century BCE, one cannot help but marvel at the engineering feat. To this day it is still not obvious how they were built. Why did they stop building them? While Thebes (Luxor) was more stylistic and artistic, had they lost the ability to build pyramids then? Egypt has been in decline for four and half milenia?! Even during Roman times, Egypt was Rome's "rice bowl," today Egypt is the biggest wheat importer in the world.
Note to fellow travellers: we metroed to Giza station then minibused to the Pyramids (Great Pyramid entrance - there is another entrance by the Great Sphinx). It was rather easy.
Riding the Cairo Metro to Giza Station.
It's pretty easy to catch a minibus from Giza Station to an intersection about 500 meters from the Pyramids. From minibus dropoff it's a slight uphill walk through a security checkpoint, and past a junkyard, to the ticket booth and entrance.
Awesome! Exciting!
Khufu (Great Pyramid)
The Pyramid of Khafre still has some of is casing at the top. Video 2nd below or click this link.
From the Pyramid of Khafre we walked down the Sacred Way to the Sphinx, fending off several touts offering camel and horse cart rides.
But not even pushy, surly, touts can dampen our spirits.
The Great Sphinx.
From the Great Sphinx we set off walking across the sands to the so-called Alignment Panorama. It was an uphill slog but we were rewarded with a view of the pyramids in a line, Cairo in the distance, and camel trains of tourists.
Some final shots.
4 comments:
It looks amazing!
Love the photo of John, arms stretched outward, standing on the stones allowing an estimate of their size.
probably a change of their religious belief resulted in stop building new pyramids?
@WQ, That would be like when we choose to stop building nuclear power plants?
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