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We only climbed up a few of the stone blocks, but
you can go to the top of the pyramid. Keep in mind
it requires official permission, a fat wallet, and a lot
of stamina and agility. There is no stairway to the
top; climbers have to pull themselves up and over
the stone blocks and then jump down from stone to
stone to descend.
When we mounted our rent-a-camels, Mickey
Mouse and Daffy, (really, that’s what they told us) and
trekked out into the desert. From this vantage, you
could imagine what the pyramids looked like before
there was a booming city only blocks away. This was
when we began oohing and aahing in earnest. From
this vantage point, we had a perfect view of all the
pyramids – posed for us like royalty ready for a fam-
ily portrait. This was a goose-bump inducing, memory
making travel moment.
Our camel caravan of two meandered through the
desert landscape that stretched as far as we could
see. It was hot, but not intolerable thanks to a slight
breeze and regular sips from the bottled water we al-
ways carry when touring. As we looked around it was
clear that carrying bottled water was not a novel idea
here- camel flattened plastic water bottles littered the
sand. We shook our heads at the mess but didn’t let

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