Post by carole on Aug 30, 2009 11:18:39 GMT -8
Manmade But Awesome
I knew they would be awesome. I knew they would be amazing, just like all the pictures showed. And they were. The miracle was that I was even there.
We arrived in Cairo about 1:00 o’clock in the morning. We had had a long flight from Prague, Czechoslovakia, and were bone tired. The driver who had met us at the airport had a couple of friends with him. They were wide-awake, and so was the entire population along the route to Giza. Egyptians nap during the heat of the day, and apparently they party all night. We weren’t in the mood.
They also drive like crazy, and I wondered if we would ever make it to our hotel. But we did. We checked in and discovered that our room was completely across the “campus” of the hotel, past the swimming pool. As we dragged along the way with our luggage, I looked up, and there were the pyramids. Amazing. They were a little distance away, but they were s big I could see them from the hotel. I could hardly wait to get to them.
The next morning our driver took us to the pyramids at Giza. Close up they are unbelievable. You may as well forget the other two, the Cheops Pyramid was the big one, and the others just didn’t matter, even though they were astonishing structures of their own. Actually, there are about five little pyramids there, too.
I stood at the foot of the big pyramid and looked up. I felt so small. It was the tallest thing I have ever seen, and the few puffy clouds drifting by made me feel dizzy. The blocks of stone are huge, and there have been many, many theories about how they were put there. No one is certain. I didn’t want to climb on they (they discourage that anyway), and I didn’t want to go inside. I had gone inside the pyramid Sakkara and didn’t like the hot, clammy feeling. They do encourage going inside.
So, while Dave entered the great pyramid, I held a conversation with a camel driver. He wanted to give me a ride on his camel. I kept saying “la shikran,” which means “no, thank you” and he laughed at me.
These structures are awesome. Even though I usually prefer something natural, like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite, I was extremely impressed and just thrilled to be there. Man can do amazing things, and I sort of enjoy not knowing just how they did it.
I knew they would be awesome. I knew they would be amazing, just like all the pictures showed. And they were. The miracle was that I was even there.
We arrived in Cairo about 1:00 o’clock in the morning. We had had a long flight from Prague, Czechoslovakia, and were bone tired. The driver who had met us at the airport had a couple of friends with him. They were wide-awake, and so was the entire population along the route to Giza. Egyptians nap during the heat of the day, and apparently they party all night. We weren’t in the mood.
They also drive like crazy, and I wondered if we would ever make it to our hotel. But we did. We checked in and discovered that our room was completely across the “campus” of the hotel, past the swimming pool. As we dragged along the way with our luggage, I looked up, and there were the pyramids. Amazing. They were a little distance away, but they were s big I could see them from the hotel. I could hardly wait to get to them.
The next morning our driver took us to the pyramids at Giza. Close up they are unbelievable. You may as well forget the other two, the Cheops Pyramid was the big one, and the others just didn’t matter, even though they were astonishing structures of their own. Actually, there are about five little pyramids there, too.
I stood at the foot of the big pyramid and looked up. I felt so small. It was the tallest thing I have ever seen, and the few puffy clouds drifting by made me feel dizzy. The blocks of stone are huge, and there have been many, many theories about how they were put there. No one is certain. I didn’t want to climb on they (they discourage that anyway), and I didn’t want to go inside. I had gone inside the pyramid Sakkara and didn’t like the hot, clammy feeling. They do encourage going inside.
So, while Dave entered the great pyramid, I held a conversation with a camel driver. He wanted to give me a ride on his camel. I kept saying “la shikran,” which means “no, thank you” and he laughed at me.
These structures are awesome. Even though I usually prefer something natural, like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite, I was extremely impressed and just thrilled to be there. Man can do amazing things, and I sort of enjoy not knowing just how they did it.