Our Trip to the Pyramids of Giza

Here's a collection of shots from our cool trip today. All of the "staged" shots were taken either by our "guide", who turned to be a bit of a scam artist, or a security guard. We didn't go into any of the pyramids. Thought we would save that for another visit. Still buzzing from this amazing experience.

On our way to the pyramids, we saw this guy trying to stop bricks from falling of the back of the truck while it was going along the motorway. We had to dodge a few!!

So amazing to be finally here.

Our tour guide insisted on this shot.

The Queen's pyramid with some of its limestone cover still intact.  The limestone used to cover all of it.

They have very, very big gnarly looking ants here!!

Some of the hieroglyphics at the entrance to one of the tunnels.

A real desert scene.

Sadly, we couldn't go down into this pyramid, which is the smallest of the big three.

But I did get to finally touch one!  A boyhood dream!

A panoramic shot of the three big pyramids and the small guardian one in front.

This time it was the security guard who insisted!!!

A couple of very happy travellers :-)

These can be quite grumpy!

Certainly wouldn't want to get lost out there!

The Sphinx- the Head of Man, The Hair of a Woman (for beauty), and the body of a Lion for strength.

Spot the tail!

The top half is very badly eroded :-(

This was our first view of the pyramids as we travelled along the motorway towards Giza.