Today, I decided for take two at the Pyramids… no wait this was my third visit if you include 2006. I came here to go into the Great Pyramid and by God I'm going to. I got another private driver for the day and off we went. I insisted on 3 hours this time, I knew the ticket office didn't open till 1pm so I wandered around the site a bit. First, I went into the pyramid of Queen Hetepheres, the mother of Khufu, her small pyramid is next to his. The crawl in was ...

Today was my trek out to Amarna and when I say trek I mean trek. My tour company arrived to collect me at 7am and I saw the nice little mini bus with EOL tours on the side of it and was actually momentarily relieved that it was now someone else's turn to deal with the chaos of organizing things. That didn't last long, I got in and the driver immediately demanded $180 USD, double what I had been quoted. I after much fussing around on the phone they told me they on...

At 4:30am I was driven though Cairo at night by a nice Saudi man named Ahmed. We drove through deserted downtown and the deserted slums and onto pyramids road. We then turned off and drove off the track to some stables and had some tea with the owner of one of them. I bought myself a 2.5 hour camel ride in the desert to watch the sunrise over Cairo. I got on the camel, which is always a little hair raising and we were off down the back streets. Medo was my guides...

Today, I decided to take a break from adventuring and go to the Cairo museum, which is only up the road from where I'm staying. On the way there I ran into Ismeail from Pharaoh's palace and he asked me where I had been the night before. I told him I was asleep, although he didn't seem to believe me. I went and had tea with him while I waited for the crowds to die down. I crossed the main street in Downtown (an experience that took me 15 minutes), and bought my t...

Away from Saqqara we drove around 15 minutes to Dashur, this is somewhere I came back to Egypt to visit. Let me just say it was worth all the hassle, all the added cost and all the risk. I got to Dashur, which was the last thing on the list for the day and headed straight up the Red Pyramid built by King Snefru. This pyramid is the world first true pyramid and it is older than the three Pyramids at Giza. I reached the entrance after a harrowing climb and to my s...