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6 ENTRIES TAGGED WITH "pyramids" (latest entry first)

 
 

Monday February 28th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Dashur

Bent Pyramid in Dahshur

Category: Egypt, 2005
Bent Pyramid in Dahshur - The pyramid showed sings of instability when it was halfway done. They[...]
The pyramid showed sings of instability when it was halfway done. They then decreased the angle from about 54 to 43 degrees.

The height of the pyramid is 105 metres.
Tags » pyramids
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Monday February 28th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Dashur

Inside the Red Pyramid in Dahshur (video)

Category: Egypt, 2005
Inside the Red Pyramid in Dahshur (video) - A short video clip where we explore the inside of the Red Pyramid. The[...]
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A short video clip where we explore the inside of the Red Pyramid.

The clip consists of two parts:
In the first part Tobias, is climbing some stairs. Just before the stairs we walked down a 60 metres narrow corridor, not on film though. In the second part we have reached the final burial chamber.

We found a wonderful echo in the chamber.
Tags » Fredrik, pyramids, Tobias, video
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Monday February 28th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Saqqara

The Step Pyramid in Saqqara

Category: Egypt, 2005
The Step Pyramid in Saqqara - Imhotep was the name of the architect and he made this one for Djoser (Zoser).[...]
Imhotep was the name of the architect and he made this one for Djoser (Zoser).

This pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser, is considered to be the earliest large-scale stone construction. It was build about 2650 BC.
Tags » old, pyramids
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Sunday February 27th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Cairo

Cheop's pyramid and the sphinx

Category: Egypt, 2005
Cheop's pyramid and the sphinx - Size comparison between the Sphinx and Cheop's Pyramid. The Sphinx[...]
Size comparison between the Sphinx and Cheop's Pyramid.
The Sphinx is smaller then most people think.
Tags » pyramids, sphinx
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Sunday February 27th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Cairo

Taxi ride to pyramids

Category: Egypt, 2005
Taxi ride to pyramids - Me and Tobbe are on our way to visit the pyramids on the Giza plateau.[...]
Me and Tobbe are on our way to visit the pyramids on the Giza plateau. The strange feeling I got when I saw the pyramids reaching for the sky was the same feeling I got when I first saw the skyscrapers in Hong Kong. A great positive feeling.
Tags » pyramids, taxi
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Sunday February 27th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Cairo

(travel diary) Cairo: the Giza Plateau (Pyramids)

Category: Egypt, 2005
This day started at three o'clock in the morning after the internet cafe I wrote about in the last entry.

When we got back to our hotel, the gate to the hotel was locked! We walked to a night open restaurant and ate some egyptian pizza and their famous "fiteer" (like waffles). The pizza wasn't too good, the fiteer was pretty tasty.

Then we walked back to the internet cafe (we had to do something, everything else was closed). A about six o'clock we went back to our hotel which now was unlocked! Time to sleep!

After a couple hours of sleep we got up at nine - today it was time for the Giza pyramids. We didn't bother about the minimal hotel breakfast (three small pieces of bread and tea) and took a taxi to the Giza plateau. When you're sitting there in the taxi, in the outskirts, and the pyramids is reaching for the sky in front of you - they feel enormous.

We entered the pyramid of Cheops and that was pretty nice! Long, narrow, hot, sweaty corridors. On the way we could see some dark shafts which was used as traps - these where closed for tourists... After a couple of rooms we reached a bigger room with a great reverb sound in it!

This walk in the pyramid was worth the pretty expensive fee (about 70EP). We walked around in the pyramid for a pretty long while and later on also found our way to the Sphinx :) (it's pretty small and on a lower level than the pyramids so it's easy to miss it if you are on the plateau)

We then got back to our hotel to rest for a little while.

After the hotel stop we went to World Trade Center to check out Cairos biggest record music store but since it was sunday everything was closed, too bad. We then took a taxi to restaurant Da Mario at the bottom of Hilton Hotel. We had read that their pasta was something extra and yes, it was good! 60 EP did't the restaurant cost (two persons). Pretty good since it was a pretty luxurious restaurant.

After the dinner we got back to our hotel. We felt that we needed some sleep. We thought about visiting some live jazz or blues club but tired as we were, we slept like camels...
Tags » pyramids
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