Indiana Jones and the Pyraminds of Giza

The Great Pyramid
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We took the night train from Luxor...yippee.  The trip up was a little better than the trip down thankfully.  Though we still were not able to sleep much, so after we got to the hotel we slept most of the day.

The next day we got up very early and headed out to see the pyramids in Giza and Dashur.  They are truly amazing.  One second you are just driving through the city and the next thing you know there they are, these giant pyramids.  They are in the middle of town, surrounded by houses, shops, what have you.  The Sphinx looks directly across the street at a Pizza Hut.  It does not however take away from the grandeur of the place.  We were two of the lucky first 150 peolpe that day to get tickets to enter the Great Pyramid.  They only allow 150 people in per day to help regulate the humidity.

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So we put on our Indiana Jones hats and entered the pyramid.  It was surreal to get to walk through.  Unfortunately, they took our camera at the entrance...sorry.  We were however able to take some pictures with our camera phone!  Take that Giza guards!  Inside the pyramid was very disorienting, as they planned it.  You have to crawl through passageways, and then climb bent in half up a very steep slope to one of the chambers with a broke down sarcophogus.  It is so hot and stuffy shannon had a bit of a claustrophobic issue, but worked through it.  (This is Carrie typing...the internet here is free, so it does not matter how fast we type, though Shannon is a bit twitchy)

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We spent the rest of our time there walking around the complex, which include two other pyramids and the sphinx.  All the police were on pretty white camels...fun.

Then we headed 35km south to the Dashur pyramids.  One of the pyramids here  changes angle half way up.  It is very strange.  Thes pyramids were just as impressive as the ones in Giza, but are not visited much at all.  There were probably only about a dozen other people there.  These are found outside a town called Dashur and are in the middle of the desert, a bit down the road from an oil refinery.

We made our way back to Cairo for some Pizza Hut.  Oh yeah.  We even had desert.  It has been really difficult to eat in any kind of healthy manner here...they really like meat, not only that, they hate vegetables.

The next day, we headed out to the bazaar.  All in all, a pleasant experience beside the bug that Shannon had, which causes her stomach to cramp up whenever she consumed anything.  When we were finished there, we ran a couple of errands, grabbed some kushari and headed to the airport for our 1:30 am flight.  We were on our way to Spain!

Your clapping is working...don´t give up now!  Carrie´s mom got a phone call from a Captain Jacque sailing his vessel down the Red Sea.  He claims to have Carries bag!  He is a lovely man.  He is sending Carrie´s bag on to Cyprus and then on to the US.  He felt he could not send it from Egypt because someone would steal it, thus the Cyprus route.  He invited us onto his vessel on the Red Sea to get the bag...So sweet he is.  So, although Carrie will be wearing the same outfit for the next 3 weeks she will hopefully not have lost all of her possessions in the process.  How her bag ended up with Captain Jacque on the Red Sea on a boat no less, I´m afraid we will never know. So, keep clapping and we´ll let you know when to stop.