The noise on the second night was not as bad, however the dogs that fight in the middle of the night didn’t get the message to shut the fuck up. I did manage to sleep I guess even although it was shattered several times.

I went to the Pyramids and they are really quite amazing. I’m so glad that I took the option to go inside the Khufu Pyramid because it finally gives you perspective on the physical size of these structures. We were all like ants crawling up this massive passage till we got to the burial chamber. The chamber is rectangular and the precision of the stones, these huge chunks of granite, is incredible. Everything is square, everything is bang on 90 degrees, there are no errors and yet we are told that they built these with no more than brute force and simple tools and equipment. I keep on thinking of the movie the Fifth Element where it’s the intergalactic Egyptians that built these things.

You enter via the robbers passage, and these guys were also amazing because they chiselled there way through several metres of granite just to get to the main passage leading to the burial chamber.

As I write this I’m sitting on the roof top and I can see two of the three pyramids and I can also see it crawling with little black ants, well that what all the tourists look like and then you can get an idea of the size of them. The more I look at them the more impressive they seem to be. The downside to all of this are the folk that harass you to take a camel ride or buy some shitty trinket.

One of the things I have really been aware of on this journey is how pathetic and shallow most of the tourists are because they are more concerned with how the selfie will look than actually taking the time to look at what is in front of their fucking eyes. Several times on this trip I have just stood on front of something and scanned it looking at the details before me and looking for some quirky hieroglyph along the way. Today’s world is rather sad when we can’t even consider the time and effort put in by the artisans of the past and to appreciate what they have achieved and left behind for all of us to see. I have never seen artwork as monumental as I have seen in Egypt. And yet for many people here it’s a few likes on Facebook or Instagram…..

I’m ready to leave Cairo although I have one more day to go of going somewhere. Cairo is way too busy for me. The traffic and the noise and the air quality is all bad. I took a taxi into town today and that was just too much, having to haggle with the driver when I couldn’t be bothered. On the way back I got an Uber and it was so much better, slightly more expensive but way less hassle.