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Pyramids of Giza.

Cairo, Egypt.

 

Giza is the name currently given to the gigantic burial grounds of ancient Letopolis (now Cairo).The reconstruction of the Necropolis took place some 5000 years ago.

These Pyramids are the only one of the seven wonders of the world exalted by the Greeks in the 2nd century B.C. still extant (the other six wonders, practically all gone, were: the Lighthouse of Alexandria of Egypt, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, the "Colossus" in the port of Rhodes, the hanging gardens of Babylonia, the statue of Zeus by Phidias in the Temple of Olympia).

 

P.S: You can reach this site by taxi. From anywhere in Cairo the taxi shouldn't cost you more than 40 to 50 Egyptian pounds.. Make sure it has AC. Settle the fare before you start and where he is gonna drop you off at the site.Get off right at the Pyramid site and not anywhere else. You can have horse carriages or camels for riding there..

 

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Uploaded on October 29, 2009
Taken on July 8, 2005