Saturday, January 8, 2011

Day 3 - Dahshur & Giza (The Great Pyramids)

We started our official tour on Day 3. It was too foggy to see the pyramids near our hotel, so we headed to Dahshur instead to see the 'older' pyramids. Then after lunch, we went back to the Great Pyramids and saw the Sphinx.

Highlight of the day...the Solar Boat. A wooden boat found disassembled and in a vault covered by giant stones, buried outside the largest pyramid. It took archeologists years to figure out how to piece it together. All the pieces were well preserved, the only thing they had to replace was the rope which held everything together.

Oh yeah, and I rode a camel...
For the rest of the days photos...


Photos are shown in reverse chronological order (if anyone can help fix this...please let me know, in Photobucket they are in the right order)

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