Well here we are in Cairo. Set on the Nile River, Egypt’s sprawling capital stretches out in front of us. At its heart is Tahrir Square and the vast Egyptian Museum, a trove of antiquities including royal mummies and gilded King Tutankhamun artifacts. Nearby, Giza is the site of the iconic pyramids and Great Sphinx, dating back to the 26th century BC.
The Pyramids of Giza, near Memphis, stand at the southwestern edge of the metropolis, and an obelisk in the northeast marks the site of Heliopolis, where Plato once studied.
First port of call is the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. The Egyptian Museum, is home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world. It has 136,000 items on display, including the Tutankhamun collection. Now relocated in 2020 to the new Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza.
After lunch at the Hyatt Pyramids hotel we will visit the Giza Plateau to see the Great Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure and the Sphinx. There is a really good view from this hotel of the pyramids on the Giza plateau, highly recomended if your thinking of staying in Cairo overnight.
The Giza plateau is well known as the home to a world-famous necropolis, the Giza Pyramids Complex. The necropolis revolves around several elements:
The funeral complex of Khufu
The funeral complex of Khafra
The Funeral Complex of Menkaure
The Great Sphinx
The village of workers
The other cemeteries
Must be one of the greatest places to have your photograph taken, now i join Ceaser, Mark Anthony, Napoleon Bonaparte and even Alexander the Great.
The temperature is reaching 45C as i explore to the best of my ability (to hot for me).
Its extremly hot. Should of retreated from the sun earlier than i did, but i managed to get my image recorded for posterity at least. What i need now is a long cool drink, maybe i should of stayed on the terrace at the Hyatt.
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