The Pyramid of Giza

Pyramid of Giza -> Egypt Museum -> Overnight train ride to Aswan (12 hours)


After 5 days of adventures to Amsterdam, Alexandria and Cairo by ourselves, we finally joined our tour group today to visit the Pyramid of Giza. It was my biggest pleasure to see the only one left of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. They are so huge that we can see the Pyramids from a far distance away. Pyramid of Khufu is the biggest pyramid of all and was built for King Khufu in 2589-2566BC. This pyramid only allows 100 people to go inside every day to better preserve the monument. The small 2 are Pyramid of Khafre (Khufu’s son) and the pyramid of Mycerinus( Khufu successor). Mr.S and I are very fortunate to be able to go inside the Pyramid of Khafre.

I was a little nervous before going inside the Pyramid because I was worried the slope would be too steep to walk or too dark to see. Apparently, when the pyramids are built, they built in passage ways for workers to go in and out of the pyramid. The surfaces of each stones are so smooth that every single rock is tight sealed. After walking down of the passage way for around 10 minutes, we went up for around 10 minutes. The air was getting stuffy and finally we reached the King’s Chamber. The King Chamber is a small room, with a small air shaft on the top of one of the walls. Lay on one side of the room is the sarcophagus. It was nothing much to see in the chamber, but it was amazing to be able to go inside of a pyramid.


After visiting the pyramids, we moved onto see the Sphinx. It was a shame that the Sphinx was fenced so we are unable to go closer but it is still a very incredible to see the Sphinx still exist since it is built of soft sandstone.



Later the day, we visited the Egyptian museum. This museum was built in 1863 and was very different from other museums because it seemed like the Pharaonic antiquities that they have are so much that they run out of space to put them. The most amazing part of the museum is the Mummy room and King Tutankhamun’s collections. The mummy room cost US$20 more to go in, but it definitely worth it. You can see some of the most famous pharaoh mummies including Ramses II. For King Tut’s collections, the tomb was found intact and the only one in the world was saved from tomb robbers. Looking at the gold mask of Tutankhamen, its like looking at the King himself. They also displayed the gold coffins of King Tut. Our tour guide said just days before our tour started, the archeologist suggested King Tut probably wasn’t murdered at age 19, instead probably he died due to generation of incest within his ancestry.

After a long day of seeing some of the most amazing things in the world, we took an over night train to head down to Aswan.

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