Back to three weeks ago......our second day in Cairo faired much better than the first. We woke up early and met our tour guide and driver. The guide was a young female around our age who spoke english pretty well. She was cheerful and happy and was a native of Cairo. We had a private mini van for the 3 of us plus the guide and driver.
Our first stop was in Dahshur. Here was saw our first pyramid! It was the Red Pyramid and it was 7000 years old. We crawled inside the pyramid and explored 2 chambers. It's really really hot inside the pyramid. The other pyramid here was the Bent pyramid. We couldn't go inside so we walked around. The special thing about this pyramid was that it still had some of it's orginal coating on it. Most of the coating has fallen off the rest of the pyramids. Apparently, there are 99 pyrmaids in Egypt (finished and non).
Next stop, Memphis Museum. Here we saw a lying down statue of King Ramses II and the second largest spinx in Egypt, which, compared to the largest is quite small.
Next was Saqqara and the museum where Irene fell asleep during the documentary. Here is also where the step pyramid is found. It is the oldest pyramid and a precursor to all the others.
Final destination- Giaza and the great pyramids. It interesting here because the pyramids are actually situated pretty close to town. When taking pictures, you can see the town in the backdrop. We decided to climb into the biggest of the pyramids. This was quite the feat.....lots and lots of stairs. It's pretty cramped inside and you have to climb hunched over. I hit my head on the ceiling so many times. We climbed into Kufu/Chehop's tomb. We also saw the great spinx. At sunset, Irene and I rode a camel, which Dave rode a donkey in the dessert, around the pyramids. It was amazing!
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