Giza to Sakkara
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Back at the Camel Tours Place in Giza....
After a great time seeing the Pyramids and Sphynx.....
And travelling all around on a camel of course....
Another photo on the wall at my Camel rental place.....
This is of Muhamed Ali....(the Boxer)....when he visited Giza....
This is the Camel Rental place he used to travel the Plateau too...
Giza, Egypt......May 2009
This place was rather fun....
A guy took a piece of papyrus stalk.....
Rolled it, pressed it, dried it, etc. showed me how it was done....
I did buy a Papyrus wall painting......
It is of a Ankh.....The Egyptian Key of Life....
The Nile used to be much closer to the Complex....
Now there is the Aswan Dam and the High Dam....
Both in Aswan.....about 2 miles apart....
Awesome View....from the high dam....photos soon....
In the ancient times the Nile came up to where the Plateau starts and there is a ancient dock still intact (mostly) where they off-loaded blocks floated in on the Nile for the Pyramids....
The Crumbly remains of one the oldest pyramids anywhere....
The Pyramid of Userkaf..... Sakkara, Egypt.....
A Stepped Pyramid.....
The first pyramid design....
This one is the oldest in the world.....
Sakkara, Egypt..... May 2009
This is called the Djoser Funerary Complex.....
It is the entrance to the Sakkara Pyramids and Plateau....
A Great looking building in the desert at Sakkara....
BIG OLD EGYPT FUN....
The Djoser Stepped Pyramid......
The oldest Pyramid in the world......
Cheops at Giza is the Biggest......
We have already been there....
Into the Sakkara Funerary Complex....
Sakkara, Egypt...... May 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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