I still can’t quite believe I managed to squeeze in an (extremely short!) visit to the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx on a layover.
Once we had exchanged our passports for free accommodation from @EgyptAir (let me know if you want a post on that) and checked into the Hilton (not without making a few friends of course) we had a very late meal and the chance for what was really a nap, rather than a nights sleep before setting off on our pyramid tour.
Everything about Egypt felt alien having come from Ghana: it was much cooler than we expected (none of us were really appropriately dressed, especially not my new friend Henry who was wearing shorts and a vest 😂); there was suddenly a language barrier (my short course in Arabic at 6th form wasn’t helpful at all); and the food just wasn’t the banku and fish or red red and kelewele we’d grown used to in Accra.
Nevertheless we only had one objective, which was to see the last of the seven wonders standing today. Nothing really prepares you for their magnificence or their sheer size. To then try and imagine how it was constructed when each limestone brick weighs 2.5 tonnes! It really was a wonder.
