Egypt, Day 14

Day 14: For the Pyramid tour we decided to first do the sunrise camel ride that was out in the desert and it was a place where you could see the pyramids from farther away. It was the perfect place! When we got to the camel stable the owner convinced us to take 4 camels and 2 horses so we could trade off because he said you will most definitely be walking like an Egyptian if you ride a camel all day. So Joy and I started off on the horses, and the other four on the camels. There were two boys that took us on the tour. They lead us through the dessert up on this hill were you could see the pyramids perfectly. We took a lot of pictures and one of the boys also took a lot of pictures of us. We then traded animals so Joy and I were on camels and then we went further up the hill to this little place that was serving Egyptian tea. We sat and had tea and then went back through the desert to town to the stables were we would be meeting our guide for the pyramids.

The owner of the stable knew that we hadn’t eaten breakfast yet and so he went somewhere and brought back breakfast for us, what a nice guy. Then our tour guide showed up and we all got in a big van and headed towards the Pyramids. We started at the big pyramid and he told us a lot of history about them. We then took pictures and headed to the next two to do the same. The Pyramids are soooo huge. It is so amazing to think of how they were built and how long ago they were built. Truly a World Wonder. We then went to the Sphinx and took pictures there as well. Then he took us to this cool restaurant for lunch that was included in our tour package. We ate a good lunch there and then for our last thing he took us to a perfume factory. This was really cool to see. They had a glass blowing station where they make all the really cool perfume bottles and then we went up to this room where they had us smell all of these different kinds of perfumes and scents.

After leaving there we went back to the hostel where all 6 of us fell asleep pretty quickly since we had been up at 3:30am. We set our alarm for 7:30 pm thinking we would get up and go eat dinner and hang out for awhile. The next thing I knew Carmina woke us up saying it was 10 o’clock. We then quickly decided that we might as well just go back to sleep and plan on getting up early to have a good long last day in Cairo. So yes….we did sleep 15 straight hours. When we woke up the next morning we couldn’t believe he did that….but then again the last 2 weeks were full and we were really only getting about 6 hours of sleep every night after spending long hot days in the sun….so this was our re-coop night.