You’d have to be living under a rock to not know that the Giza Pyramids are in Egypt.
What I found most striking about Giza wasn’t the pyramids themselves, but just how much Cairo suburbia encroached onto the pharaoh’s place of permanent rest.
Judging by the numerous clichéd photos of Giza showing three pointy edifices surrounded by endless sand, I’d always assumed the Pyramids were located in an isolated section of the Sahara, not as an almost token mausoleum part of Cairo’s outskirts.
Here’s the proof: This is the view looking out from the Giza Pyramids.
The travel brochure photographers obviously used the correct angles ensuring grimy slums don’t spoil the ridiculous tributes to the pharaohs.
Or the photos were 20 years old.
Or both.
But as a final photograph of proof, here is a painfully obvious photo of how much the Giza Pyramids have turned into a Tourist Trap:
There you go!
If you haven’t yet visited the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza, sorry for spoiling your image of them!
I guess you could still marvel at Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs.
