So on the Saturday we went for a BIG tourist day. Jimmy (our Taxi man) picked us up at 8 am and we headed for the Pyramids in Gizza. We booked jimmy for the day and he talked his way through the police at the site so he could chauffer us from site to site. The distance isn't that far but Egyptians don't seem to walk very far. Anyway it was a reasonable price to get in 60LE each the only downside was we couldn't go into a pyramid. Apparently there are 150 tickets at 100LE each that go on sale at 7:30 am, so you need to be keen to get them.
We wandered happily round the pyramids for about 2 hours and were fairly free from incidents with the tourist toutes. One caought us as we came out of a tomb, the no camera sign was down on the way in but up on the way out so Geoff gave him a handful of change. Then on the way round to the funneral boats a camel man got me! He offered to tie my scarf arab style then he wanted to take photos of me with his camel, then he wanted money and tried to give me a sob story baout his five children, I told him that was great I had four. Anyway, in the end I gave him 3LE and moved on. All good fun.
There are 3 intact pyramids and some 6m square bases, as well as some mounds of sand and small temple like structures. You read what you need from guide books, as there didn't appear to be any for sale on the site.
Medium sized and small pyramid
on the pyramid
Down at the sphinx there is a seating area for the light and sound show, there's a different performance times dependent on what language you speak. Another thing to add to out 'to do' list.
So on the Saturday we went for a BIG tourist day. Jimmy (our Taxi man) picked us up at 8 am and we headed for the Pyramids in Gizza. We booked jimmy for the day and he talked his way through the police at the site so he could chauffer us from site to site. The distance isn't that far but Egyptians don't seem to walk very far. Anyway it was a reasonable price to get in 60LE each the only downside was we couldn't go into a pyramid. Apparently there are 150 tickets at 100LE each that go on sale at 7:30 am, so you need to be keen to get them.
We wandered happily round the pyramids for about 2 hours and were fairly free from incidents with the tourist toutes. One caought us as we came out of a tomb, the no camera sign was down on the way in but up on the way out so Geoff gave him a handful of change. Then on the way round to the funneral boats a camel man got me! He offered to tie my scarf arab style then he wanted to take photos of me with his camel, then he wanted money and tried to give me a sob story baout his five children, I told him that was great I had four. Anyway, in the end I gave him 3LE and moved on. All good fun.
There are 3 intact pyramids and some 6m square bases, as well as some mounds of sand and small temple like structures. You read what you need from guide books, as there didn't appear to be any for sale on the site.
Medium sized and small pyramid
on the pyramid
Down at the sphinx there is a seating area for the light and sound show, there's a different performance times dependent on what language you speak. Another thing to add to out 'to do' list.
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