Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt ...forty centuries look upon you!!

 

"From the summit of these monuments" cried Napoleon "forty centuries look upon you!"…by these few words, Napoleon could express the logic defying and the mystery of these magnificent structures..

The pyramids are the only one from the seven ancient world wonders to have survived nearly in good condition. The funerary Great Pyramid of Khufu is the oldest at Giza and the largest in the world, built nearly in 2500 B.C. with about 2.3 million limestone blocks, and each one  weights an average 2.75 tons, and constructed by a force of around 20,000 workers. Two smaller pyramids nearby belonged to Khufu's son and grandson.

The Sphinx  (Abu El-Hol, "Father of Terror") sits nearby, a strange figure with a lion's body, a human face, and a royal beard. The booming sound-and-light show that takes place every night after sundown is an exciting melodramatic display, and offers an entertaining crash course in pharaonic history. As Cairo's population passes the 20 million mark, the pyramids' former isolation in the desert has been infringed on by the suburbs that continue to grow around them. Touts and persistent camel drivers offer their horses and camels to see the pyramids as they were meant to be experienced. They are most magical at dawn and dusk, or when bathed in moonlight and silence.

On the nearby of the great pyramids, locates Mena House Hotel, within 40 acres of lush parkland and gardens on the edge of the Sahara, this veritable oasis of escape from the amusement-park atmosphere that now often surrounds the pyramids was once the rest house and hunting lodge of the empire-building Khedive Ismail. The omnipresent pyramids loom in full, unobstructed view from your hotel room, the breakfast terrace (Evelyn Waugh thought it was "like having the Prince of Wales at the next table"), the hotel's l8-hole golf course and the garden-enveloped swimming pool.

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