• The Egyptian Museum
• Saqquara
• Dashur
• Giza

• Elephantine
• Philae
• St. Simeon
• Abu Simbel
• Down the Nile

• Edfu
• Karnak
• Luxor Temple

• Valley of the Kings
• Hatshepsut's Temple
• Tombs of the Nobles
• The Ramesseum
• New Gourna

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The Pyramids: Giza

About 2500 BC, Khufu (Cheops), Khaefre (Chephren), and Menkaure (Mycerinus), son and grandsons of Senefrur, built the three pyramids that are just outside Cairo, and of course these are the ones everyone thinks of when they think of Egypt. Cairo's suburbs have encroached upon them and unlike the other two sites we went to, they're overrun with tourists. But impressive nonetheless.

Down a sort of causeway from them is the Sphinx, which has recently been restored. It was apparently built by Chephren from limestone remaining after Cheop's pyramid was built. It's overrun with tourists in a way that the pyramids themselves, standing the desert, seem not to be.

the canonical photo	the littlest camel driver
the kids who climb the small pyramids, and like stickers on their foreheads	the Sphinx, who overlooks Cairo suburbs now

and again we pose.