Giza

I didn’t expect all of the pollution, the pyramids didn’t appear until late afternoon. The sphinx looked amazing though and despite the pollution and the hawkers it is a must see.

Egypt, where the grandeur of ancient vastly outshines the frustration of modern. Like most tourists to Egypt, I was drawn to the Pyramids and the Pharaohs. Some 5,000 years ago, the first empire emerged in the Nile river valley, and from that great empire some of the world’s greatest advances emerged: writing, paper, permanent stone monuments. But alas, present day Egypt is overcrowded, polluted and frustrating. continue: http://blog.730steps.com/egypt-tips-and-impression.html

To see the Great Pyramids and Sphynx

In 1972, we saw the Sound and Light Show here. Wow! What a taste of history.

I went here making a documentary about The Private Lives of the Pharaohs for Channel 4 in the UK. It is one of the most stunning places I have ever been to and I was actually paid to go into the pyramids.
( Just been lookin through some of my photos of this place, but this one from Google Earth will do.)
No words can really do it justice, one can’t get a sense of perpsective from photos either, you just have to go.

It involves loads of walking around as the sight is huge and stretches over km’s, If you get up close to the pyramids, you lose a sense of what they are as they are HUGE.
I was very fortunate to get up into some of the rooms above the galleries and crawled into the 3 relief chamber above the Kings Chamber where there is a cartouche indicating the pyramid ( may have )belonged to Khufu.
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid3.htm

It is an amazing site, but Giza town is rapidly encrouching on the site.

There is an old proverb which basically states Beware, Egypt should never build on the Western side of the Nile towards the Pyramids…

Go and visit. Take strong shoes as the ground is hot and rough, and you will walk all day, take water and toilet paper ( best of all dont want to use one at all…)
Its very hot in the summer and hot in the winter, get there early and getting into the Chambers is bearable, just.

A Big J on Kheops’s pyramid.
It did not wake him up….

It was a wild trip. The pyramids are right near the city, but they don’t usually show the city in the pictures. It’s quite a contrast. If I spent a little more time there, I could have gotten invited to a wedding – that sounds like a good way to go. A nice Egyptian tried to take me under his wing and show me around, but – yikes – the poverty. One fun thing I did was to rent a horse and ride through the desert with a guide. But be prepared for a crazy mix of experiences.

How can you travel and not want to see the great Pyramids. They are one of the things the imagination craves to see verfied in reality.

Awesome vacation, but be ready – its reallllly hot and sanitation is, well, not so great.

not much to see in the pyramids, but awesome to look at.the museum in cairo is very good
tip> dont take no pics in the museum or you will have armed gaurds on you at once. gift shop very reasonable