Lindsay and Ryan Do the World 2008/09

We had a very busy day yesterday!  Our day started at 8:30am when our private driver picked us up from the hotel.  Our first stop was the small village of Memphis, where the Rameses II museum is.  It was a great start to the day.  It had a huge statue of the king and then some other aritfacts in the court yard, including a small Syphinx and sarcophagus from 1200-1300 B.c.!

Then we headed to the Saquara Pyramids and Titi’s Tomb.  These pyramids are smaller than the Giza ones but still huge!  We walked around the ruins here and touched the real heiroglyphics that they are uncovering right now!  If this was back home we woud not even get close to it!  We then went down into Titi’s tomb.  We had to walk down this long, very narrow and steep tunnel down into the tomb!  It was so slippery too with sand.  Not much was down there just an empty sarcophogus (coffin).  It looked like it was made out of marble.

We made a couple quick stops at a carpet school and Papyrus paper factory.  We were only brought there to buy something, but we couldn’t.  Not in the budget.  I don’t think they were very happy with us. Oh well.

While we were driving along this small dirty river I saw two dead cows rotting in it! It was like from a movie.  And then these two guys were in a small paddle boat rowing with 2×4’s as paddles!  What the heck?!! LOL

We stopped for lunch at this 5 star restaurant called the Queen Cleopatra Restaurant.  It was a buffet lunch, so delicious.

Our last stop of the day was the Great Pyramids of Giza!!  The driver saved the best for last I guess! 🙂  We stopped at this stable and we had to barter with the guy to get a good price for a camel ride to the pyramids.  At first he was saying 200 EP each! We couldn’t afford that so we started to leave and then he said he would do it for 100 EP each!  So of course we did it for that price.  We are definitely paying the price today though!  Our whole bodies hurt.  Riding a camel is quite a workout!  We started heading towards the pyramids.  The guide took us to the top of this sand dune where it looked out to the pyramids.  There were some great picture oppurtunities from up there.  You could see all three pyramids.  One is made from granite, alabaster and limestone.  Then we headed to the biggest pyramid to TOUCH IT!  The regular tours are not allowed to touch it but with this guide he paid the police officer there and we were allowed to touch it quickly.  It supposedly gives you good luck!  That was AWESOME!  Then we headed to the Syphinx.  We didn’t get to get too close to the Syphinx but still were able to get some good pictures.  We are going back tomorrow night for a light and sound show there anyways, so its ok. 

We got back to the hotel around 530p.m. and went to bed at 10pm. We were exhausted. 

This was by far the best day trip we have ever been on!  Its a once in a lifetime thing that we will remember forever.  It was just so amazing.  We couldn’t believe we were in the Sahara desert, on a camel, on our way to the Giza Pyramids! OMG!

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