Giza, Egypt Travel Blogs

Cairo to Alexandria
Mar 20, 2008

... beautiful.  They have really made an effort.  There are lots of colorful tile mosaiics and water fountains. As we got further into the town, there are alot of older buildings but it still looks so much cleaner than other places in Egypt. 

Pyramids of Giza
Mar 10, 2008 (12 photos)

... card.  A bit spooky though as I was taking a photo at the same spot where Kelly's camera stuffed up when we in Egypt last time.  The hasslers haven't changed at all but boy does it make a difference being able to speak a few words of Arabic ...

Getting into the swing of things
Jun 27, 2007

... I tagged along on this adventure with a few of my hostel-mates, Willem and Wendy who work and live in Africa on holiday in Egypt.  After seeing the limited view we made our way back to the stable and walked to buy many entry tickets (expensive) into ...

The pyramids....without a camel!
Jun 14, 2008 (51 photos)

... I was looking forward to seeing the most on this trip.  I told him the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids in Egypt.  I've always had a thing for Egypt and it was pretty amazing to be here at last. Our guidebook matter-of-factly mentions that ...

On the Roof of the Stable
Oct 30, 2008 (3 photos)

... building of the pyramids and the history of the pharoahs. Tears ran down Blink Blink's cheeks as she looked at the pyramids, thinking about fulfilling her lifelong dream, the wonderful time we've had in Egypt, and having to leave Cairo the next morning.

PYRAMIDS
Jul 13, 2008 (90 photos)

... prominent monuments at Giza, the site has actually been a Necropolis almost since the beginning of Pharaonic Egypt. A tomb just on the outskirts of the Giza site dates from the reign of the First Dynast Pharaoh Wadj (Djet), and jar sealings discovered in ...

Papyrus Museum and Carpet School
Oct 28, 2008 (7 photos)

... driving by and snapping pictures. The Saqqara pyramid was built for King Zoser, and it is the first pyramid in Egypt, predating the Giza trio and illustrating the progression of pyramid architecture. We had to speed out of Saqqara in a hurry because a ...

Welcome to Alaska
Oct 28, 2008 (14 photos)

... packed on this trip were my long twill skirts (see blog entry where I talk about the need for loose clothing on women in Egypt). Oh dear. As I type this, my palms are bruised from gripping the pommel of the camel saddle all day, my biceps are pulled from ...

Back to Cairo - in need of pampering!
Jun 18, 2007 (11 photos)

... spotted the bright green and yellow insignia on some trucks. We found it! Or so we thought.....The man at the door of the elusive Egypt Post took one look at our bag and pointed up and across the street. We had no choice but to head that way....his finger ...

Living the Life of Luxury in Giza!
Jun 19, 2007

6-19-07 Living the life of luxury in Giza.... This morning we awoke in our luxurious, comfy bed at the Pyramid Park Intercontinental. In the U.S., the hotel itself is probably about the equivalent of a nice Holiday Inn, but this bed is to DIE FOR. I ...

Pyramids
Nov 24, 2003 (12 photos)

... grey smog blanket hovering just above the city. Look straight ahead and standing before me are nine pyramids, Cheops being the largest in Egypt. As I gazed up up up I wondered how on earth...and then I wondered why on earth? I was a bit annoyed when I ...

Down a dark shaft and into oblivion
Jun 8, 2007 (29 photos)

... and you can go in a tomb and a building to see some nice carvings... Third:  We hit the tourist hotspot of Giza which was, not so surpirsingly, filled with tourists... We saw the Sphinx and the Pyramids and got offered many things to buy (that's ...

Memphis, El-Sultan Carpet School, Saqqara and Giza
Mar 4, 2007 (43 photos)

... Islamic Cairo you can see an Egyptian Tourism Police (ETP) riding a camel. These folks are responsible for protecting Egypt's historical sites as well as protecting the numerous tourist who visit these sites everyday. The ETP took on the additional ...

Pyramids
Nov 4, 2004 (16 photos)

Finally made it to the pyramids. It was great but fairly expensive by Egypt standards. We went inside the giant Pyramid. I did not appreciate what heat was until I was in that 6000 year old structure that's filled with dead air. The climb to the main ...

Giza Pyramids
Feb 10, 2007 (18 photos)

Giza Pyramids

Musings
Jul 24, 2009

Well, at this point of the journey I am finding Egypt a magnificently interesting and historical place, I love that there is stuff from BC, and you can sit on ruins and touch things from so long ago. Our trip has been magnified in it's sucess with a ...

Bad Case of Lovin' You
Oct 23, 2009

... long 11 1/2-hour travel day to Cairo via Nairobi and Khartoum (Sudan). Many in central and southern Africa do not consider Egypt to be part of Africa, possibly because its culture and history are dominated by middle eastern influences.  We have over ...

Pyramids Day!!
Nov 18, 2007 (40 photos)

... trinkets. On the way to Sakara (the bent pyramid complex, but also one of the two beers that they sell in Egypt), we passed numerous carpet "schools" and papyrus "museums, basically gimmicksto sell more crap to tourists.  I had been approached in ...

The Sights - Pyramids, Mosques, Etcetera
Sep 2, 2007 (19 photos)

... engineering explorations. It feels, in my memory and my experience, like most of the world learns a ton of things about ancient Egypt and remembers this much: there was papyrus, there was Nubia and Egypt and they got united, and there was the Sphinx and ...

Pyramids...
Oct 9, 2007 (4 photos)

... the back of my mind that was where it was located but it felt at that point we had now finished our tour of Egypt.  When we return the picturs everyone will expect to see were taken in the first day! This was another monument that was covered ...

Arrival to Cairo, Egypt
Mar 3, 2007 (7 photos)

... bank but they were having problems with their machine that connected to the Cairo Bank. As the lastest scam in Egypt was forged Traveler's Cheques, they were very unwilling to cash the cheques without this verification system. Well, this was the ...

Pyramids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jul 22, 2009

Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids...today was the day of visiting the Great pyramids of Giza Up at 6.30am for a 7.30am bright and early departure..out into the haze we went in search of pyramids. First of all was the Great Pyramid of Cheops, pretty darned ...

Giza!
Jan 13, 2006 (5 photos)

The second day we are in Egypt, we awake at 330AM to head for a sunrise camel ride by the pyramids! Camels are fun and the landscape is incredible! Later during the day we check out the pyramids themselves, as well as the Sphinx!

The Great Pyramids
Sep 5, 2007 (13 photos)

We traveled to the great pyramids.  Again one of the amazing American University in Cairo students helped us out and hooked us up with a free guide who took a half day of work from the Ministry of Antiquities to come show us around.

The Khan el Khalili
May 6, 2009 (13 photos)

Another early morning. I always get anxious in new towns, cities, areas, countries...wherever "home" isn't. i springboard out of bed before 90% of the locals (around 6am) and grab my shoulder pack equipped with all my electronic goodies. I'm not exactly ...

Ancient Sites in Cairo!
Aug 6, 2009 (30 photos)

... while we were in the complexes, but not entry fees.  The first site we hit was Saqqara with the first pyramid in Egypt, the Step Pyramid made by Imhotep.  The complex is very vast and is only 30 pounds for students which is quite awesome.  ...

The Pyramids
May 31, 2006 (37 photos)

... his new duties as king of the dead. If this did not happen the cycle would be broken and disaster would befall Egypt. The oldest pyramid in Giza and the largest in Egypt is the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops). It was built around 2550 BC. The height of ...

EGYPT and LONDON pics
May 21, 2006 (18 photos)

ok, here are some select pics from Egypt and London.

Behold... the Great Pyramids of Giza
Jun 29, 2005

The picture is like something out of a dream. I can't believe I am actually here.

Egypt Stopover: Meet the Sphinx
Jun 21, 2004 (17 photos)

On our way back from Saudi Arabia we had a 6 hour stopover in Egypt. As soon as we arrived we went straight to a flight desk to see if we could leave the airport and maybe get to the pyramids and back. They checked our tickets and although we had economy ...