EGYPT II
The Pyramid of Cheops is 137.2 meters (just a little bit higher than the Pyramid of Chephren) and approximately 2 and a half million lime-stone blocks, weighing around six million tones, were used in its construction (it took around 30 years to be concluded). Even nowadays, historians are still intrigued and puzzled concerning the way these Pyramids were built. But, one fact is definitely true: they should have invented the "elevator machine" before the Pyramids' construction - hehe. WHY???
Pyramids-Giza/Egypt, October/2000
Well, because we had the chance to enter this huge Pyramid and... climbing inside was "quite easy" but, to get down, without and elevator, was a "nightmare"!! In the picture above, Gerson is standing right on the Pyramid's entrance and can you see how narrow it is? Can you imagine how it is inside of if?
Pyramids-Giza/Egypt, October/2000
Perhaps, we may say that our experience inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops was a deception. Besides the narrow corridors we had to go through (some of them with only 1.30m high and one meter wide, so we had to "walk" just like reptiles do), the suffocating atmosphere, an unbearable heat and an awful musty smell, there is nothing to see inside! All the richness of it was taken to the Cairo National Museum. Anyway, only 200 persons per day are allowed to enter this Pyramid so, we felt lucky as we arrived there and were told that we could visit it inside. Well, we may consider that as part of the "Egyptian experience".
Pyramids-Giza/Egypt, October/2000