Pyramids + Museum

Blog by Kellie (Monday 5 August, 2019)

Up early at 6am for we are heading to my beloved pyramids.
It’s going to be approx 38 deg so we are heading out early.

First stop breakfast where there is all international cuisine to eat .
Next stop over to the reception area of the Marriott mena to find our private tour guide to lead us on this expedition

Ahmed our tour guide found us and we where off, we had our own driver and own car, and of course our tour guide Ahmed.

We arrive at the gate to enter the great pyramids of Giza, and Ahmed has informed us that there are a lot of people that will come up to us and try to sell you different things, or they will say that they will take your photo. Ahmed told us nothing is for free so we are to ignore them.
After the initial one and two of them coming up to us Ahmed had informed us that we where top students

Ahmed was a great guide informing us on which pyramid belonged to which pharaoh, and showing us that the queens also had pyramids as well.
They showed us where the boats where stored and there where huge holes for them , and the Queen also had her own boat stored in front of her pyramid for the after life.

We where told that despite popular belief that slaves where used to build the pyramids, in was infact the farmers that helped build the pyramids.
They would tend to their crops half of the year and when there crops where flooded they had no work, so the pharaohs would offer them work to build the pyramids.

Ahmed took us then to the Sphinx that was great , you could get up nice wand close to it.

The next stop was the Cairo museum, which was peak hour where cars are beeping and you can’t move very far through the traffic.
Eventually we got there where Ahmed says he is going to take us through the museum, we will see all the main exhibits.
He did not let us down, we saw how fake doors to the pyramids where presented, we saw many old original statues, the sarcophagus still had their paint in them and the hieroglyphics where written all over them.

We had bought the extra ticket

I shall call it the gold ticket for this got me in to see my beloved king Tutankhamun funeral mask.
We where able to see all the different items that where found in his burial chamber.
It was nothing short of spectacular.
When I walked in and saw the gold funeral mask I just could not believe that I was standing there looking at it. Gold !
The canonic jars where huge, and there was all his neck wear and scarab beetles and daggers .

We where able to also see King Ramses mummy.
We then finished up looking there and then started our journey back to the Marriott mena
Ahmed called into a little shop to buy us bottled water for it was extremely hot

We called in to a bazaar on the way back and had a look at the different items in the shop grabbed a couple of scarab beetles for the collection and off we went again.

Said our goodbyes to our tour guide and driver
Definitely well worth getting your own guide that’s for sure, I felt we where able to have the true experience that I was after.