Our representative will meet you in front of your hotel to come to visit the pyramids. First, you will see the Great Pyramid, which was built by Prince Ham Ionu, King Khufu's architect - a larger-than-life-size limestone statue of him is preserved in the Römer-Belisius Museum in Hildesheim, Germany. He sent priests and engineers to the city of Un to choose a name for the pyramid, and that name was: ‘Akhet Khufu’, which means “the horizon of Khufu”. It represents the horizon from which the god Ra will board the sun boats to sail and the stars will row for him.
You will also learn about the pyramid of King Khafre the design of this pyramid differed greatly from other Egyptian pyramids, as most pyramids had hidden entrances that were not visible to the viewer, but this pyramid, had two entrances from the northern side of the pyramid, both visible to the viewer and leading to the burial chamber, the height of the entrance was about 11 meters from ground level, the entrance leads to a descending corridor with a granite roof, and its slope angle is about 22 degrees.
After providing your guide with information about the Pyramid of Menkaure, You will have lunch at a restaurant overlooking the pyramids, after which you will be transferred by a modern car to the Egyptian Museum that forms a bridge between the past and the present, as it contains many rare artifacts of kings such as Amenhotep, as well as some valuable papyri and coffins.
If you have some time to spare, we will walk the streets of Islamic Egypt and then you will be transferred to the airport again.
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