I spent five days on the Giza Plateau, touring all the sites and doing some 360 video work.I was staying at a hotel right beside the southern entrance to Giza (directly off the right paw of the Sphinx) and could watch the light show from the rooftop restaurant.The hotel is the Pyramids Valley Boutique Hotel and if you want to do Giza on your own I highly recommend it.When my formal tour began I switched to the fancier Steinenberger on the other side of the plateau.Fancier, internet a little better in the morning.
We toured Giza yesterday and I had saved going into the great pyramid of Khufu for then, hoping my tour leader could pull off some magic for entry like he did last time and I got to see the Subterranean Chamber, the Queen’s Chamber and the King’s Chamber, No luck so I went in and saw only the King’s Chamber for ten minutes along with several hundred of my close friends. Because heat rises and you are climbing up to the King’s Chamber it is hot and sweaty in there.
Yesterday we headed to Saqqara and toured several burial chambers (mastabas) and the tomb of Seti I, and got entrance into the southern entrance to the Step Pyramid.That entrance is a short stooped walk to an opening of a 35 foot in diameter vertical shaft that looks down some 150 feet to a giant rock block chamber. If you are afraid of heights this may not be for you!
In looking at the photo I took of the shaft it seems to be rectangular and only 100 feet or 75 down.
Annie Ritter says
Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing! Enjoy the rest of the trip-hopefully that tour guide magic will happen.