Pyramid Tower

... Guangxi cuisine still offers several great delicacies, including the Guilin rice-flour noodles with horse meat (Marou mifen), "zongzi" - pyramid shaped meat dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves, and "fried earthworm-shaped" noodles. Guangxi cuisine is light, ...

... and check out Mona first. We're both not too big on art, but I can definitely tell when a painting looks nice... The Louvre Pyramid Anyway, the Louvre is simply huge (warning: sensory overload), but even if you live in a cave, you must know it is ...

... readjust.  Stepping out onto the hard rock of the Giza Plateau you are completely aware of your diminutive size. The Great Pyramid towers over everything. The city of Cairo is just moments away but here it is the Pyramid that takes your breath ...

... -through pyramid. This is what makes the Louvre so famous. It was built by I.M. Pei. Just like the Eiffel Tower, the French thought that the pyramid would be an eyesore, but that was proven wrong, just like with the Eiffel Tower. You could spend months in ...

... to be as many people down here as what we were expecting.  Saw the site that was quite exciting, a big glass upside down pyramid - I didn’t realise that there were many pyramids, not just one big main one. It was early, we were there for the ...

... several times, so I was pretty sure what the building was. A short walk around the bend and there it was, the famous Pyramid and museum. It looks magnificent at night, just like in the movies. The symmetry of the Pyramid and the way its reflection ...

... afterall!  It was actually an entrance to an underground mall type of a place that lead to the entrance under the big pyramid (which had a huge line outside).  We just skipped the big ol' line! Once inside we tried to take our time and see ...

... how we like it. The driver drops you at a tour company, which if you don't want to indulge can be walked away from (the Pyramid entrance is very close by).  We however did indulge and found it to be more than worth the extra dollars we parted with ...

... of rock steps which was higher than the Castillo at Chichen Itza.  It is 42 meters tall (138 feet) and the tallest pyramid in the yucatan.   We have already climbed some steps of tall architectures both in Uxmal and Ek Balam, i ...

... day (on the handy dandy tour) that there was a less known entrance to the Louvre, that would also take you by the inverted pyramid. We wandered over to the "secret" staircase, showed our passports with our German student visas in them (which got us in for ...

... as Matthew hates museums) Opposite The Lourve The Lourve The Lourve itself was impressive. From the glass pyramid outside, to the intricately painted ceilings. Then there was the sculptures, statues, paintings and ...

... . By the time we got to the bottom it was time to head over to the Musée du Louvre and meet our friend Shelley at the Pyramid. We stopped for a quick lunch and had a great pizza and beer of course and then decided to head to the Arc de Triomphe for a ...

... and went to the Eiffel Tower one more time. The Louvre was huge, but the outside was really cool with the pyramid and all. We then went back to the Eiffel Tower. I love just looking at it. It is so amazing - I think I took like 50 pictures of that ...

... Paris!!!! We headed down through the park towards the Louvre. An amazing series of buildings with the addition of the Glass Pyramid - made famous in a recent movie. There were tourists everywhere - even a wedding party having photos taken with the Louvre ...

... Rup. From the top, the flat, jungle-covered countryside stretched in all directions. To the north, I could pick out another stone pyramid tower that looked like the rebel base from “Star Wars.” (I almost mistyped that as “Star ...

... of the temple. The most striking aspect of the temple was the intricate carvings which adorned the walls of the white marble pyramid tower, including scenes from Hindu mythology and the entire Kama Sutra! I was sorry to leave this pretty lake city among ...

... to go to the Louvre by myself- which was ideal.  I walked through the Touillieres Gardens and entered the Louvre through the pyramid.  Throughout my Paris trip I was REALLY wishing I had a copy of the "DaVinci Code" with me, and going through ...

... down to the other end of the strip, which is a surprising 4 miles long.  We had a look around the Egyptian pyramid-themed Luxor and bought tickets for the very well done Titanic artefact exhibition before taking a  walk past the absolutely over ...

... worth going on a Tuesday night. He recommend the Luxor and we had no reason to argue so there we went. Into the famous pyramid again opened up yet another enormous floor filled to the brim with fruit machines, betting tables and any other form of betting ...

... like Dwayne Dibly.  We agreed to try and see a Cirque de Soleil show, so headed off towards the Luxor – a Pyramid hotel/casino where the performances were taking place.  Quick aside:  Whilst waiting for the green man at a crossing, I ...