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Giza, Saqqara and Dahshur – Egypt

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The last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World

This is without exception, the highlight of any trip to Egypt that also includes Cairo. Giza in any case, it is nowadays a suburb of the ever expanding Cairo, where the houses have reached literally the very limit of the fences that separate it with the Giza Plateau. Not a very wise decision, as it’s not any more as impressive as it would have been to arrive to Giza and see the Pyramids in full from far, and not a Pizza Hut for example, right opposite the Sphinx entrance!

The first and most impressive, complete, historical and largest of the ancient Pharaohs necropolis is Giza; then at just few kilometres to the south is Abusir, the next funerary complex which is closed to visitors, at least by the time of our trip here. And immediately south of Abusir is the enormous Saqqara, where the oldest pyramid ever built in humanity is located (the Step Pyramid, or Pyramid of Djoser), with many others from larger to much smaller, many tombs and the Imhotep Museum.

The last necropolis complex, and still within an acceptable radius distance from Cairo is Dahshur, where the first true smooth-sided pyramid was ever built, The Red Pyramid of Sneferu; and one of the very last ever built by the Egyptians, the Bent Pyramid; unique in the way that has two different angles since they did not know anymore how to build pyramids. Completing the funerary complex is the Black Pyramid of Sneferu, nowadays collapsed, but the original maze of corridors still intact underground.

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