Sphinx

Welcome to my travelogue experience of Egypt. This is a trip packed with some of the top sites Egypt has to offer, I will be travelling with a professional tour operator, unlike my usual spur of the moment trips like Norway which was fantastic. The ...

... crazy traffic on our way to the ruins at Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt in the times of Pharo. We saw "The Alabaster Sphinx" which was just awesome, and a gigantic statue of Ramses II so big, they left it lying down when they found it and built ...

... once more. oh no tyhere was a giant thing in my throut. gag gag then a nose came out. ohhhhhhh it was the nose from the sphinx. i stood up and hopped on the cow. all the animals followed us to somewhere in the desert. i saw an oasis. i staggered for it ...

... streets that lie between the myriad of blocks of flats which intrude right up to the perimeter of the Pyramids and Sphinx….An artist called David Roberts painted many atmospheric pictures of the ancient sites in Egypt in the 1800s which captures a ...

... top platform where it was already packed with tourists and locals trying to sell souvenirs.  Standing on a plateau with the Sphinx in the background, Michel proceeded taking various pictures of me kissing the Sphinx.  It was great fun in which ...

... and drove us a short distance to see the sphinx. I thought the sphinx was actually much more impressive than the pyramids. A sphinx is a mythological creature of a female lion with a human head. Unlike the pyramids the sphinx is actually one piece of ...

... many never ending repairs plus the pollution, the humidity and the wind. By walking through a series of chambers inside the Sphinx Temple followed by steps to climb, this brought us a causeway and closer to the monument so that ...

Day trip to amazing Cairo Pyramids, Sphinx, Sahara desert, camels, cruising the Nile, King Tutankhamun's treasures, Cairo bazaar, noisy streets. Ahhh Cairo - so much history, so much life. What an amazing experience. Early wake up at 6:20am. But too ...

... hard to get the village people to move because all of their activity so close to the ancient site is causing some erosion of the Sphinx and threatens its long-term survival. After that we walked over to the camel farm and decided to get on board for this ...