So today was one of the days that I have been looking forward to, getting up close and personal with the pyramids and a visit to the grand Egyptian Museum. So off to the museum we went and there was this total nerd within me unleashed, I could spend days in there and still not have gotten enough of a fix to statisfy me. There is so much history embedded within this country and I can't help but feel some of it is wasted and left to sit in a corner collecting dust. I have to be honest and say that the Tutumkumun Tomb would have been one of my favourites. It was so impressive and this guy just purely loved gold, so we have something in common. But to be serious, he had 4 coffins each laid within the other and each covered in gold, then the coffin was placed within with a buriel chamber and he had four of these aswell, the last being as big as my bedroom and this is all contained within a larger room and filled with his prized posessions that he would need in the afterlife, my favourite toy that he took, three chariots each as amazing as the next.
While at the Museum I got surrounded by a bunch of little girls who were very curious as to who I was and where I was from, I love meeting all the little girls here, they are so fascinated by me, and they constantly call me beautiful - it makes me feel so special. All the kids are so open here, they all want to know your name and were you are from, it's little things like that, that make home so different. Everyone back home is so self minded, I myself admit to being like that. I don't spend enough time looking around my world and just getting to know people and greet them, it does make me feel a little sad but I guess this is were I make a decision to change.
Our next big stop for the day was the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx. So as you are all probably aware I'm a HUGE stargate fan and the show in the begining was primarily based on ancient egyptian mythodology, which in turn means I became interested in Egypt (no surprise I'm a nerd). So I thought the pyramids looked impressive from a distance, well when we got up close I almost died and went to heaven. I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd actually be standing in front of a pyramid in Egypt (though I seem to surprise myself a lot). Just the engineering and construction of these things is mind boggling, I would give anything to be able to go back in time and just witness how they made. It was even more exciting when we went into the second pyramid, YEP that's right we went inside. The idea of going into the middle of a pyramid would freak a lot of people out but not me, I was busting with exciting and literially ran down the ramp in record time,I just had to remember the that the corridor changes in height from 80cm to 1m and goes smack into the middle (I can't remember how far right now), and this leads to a tomb which is located 100m from the top and 100m from the base. The walls are almost 100% smooth which is a feat in itself and the tomb room is quite large, with a high ceiling which has a air shaft inside. It's hard to describe without you actually having been inside, unfortuantely they don't let us take cameras inside which is a bother, they seem to have a bit of issue with cameras in some places. But the memories will stick with me for as long as I remember and that's got to count for something.
Next stop was the Sphinx, so for those of you that don't know the Sphinx was built to be a gaurdian of the Pharohs that were burried on the Giza Plateau pyramids, well thats the theroy. No one actually knows what happens to it's nose or if it ever had one, regardless it's a icon and I don't think there are many people that have never heard of the Sphinx.
To wrap up the day we backed our stuff and headed for the train station where we were to embrake on a 14 hours train ride down to Aswan, I'll you know how it went.
Peace Out
Mandz
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