Best layover EVER. The nine pyramids of the Giza Necropolis were built within less than one century, between roughly 2550 and 2490 BC. Pyramid Cheops is the oldest and largest of the three at 147 m in height, and is composed of 2.5 million limestone blocks weighing anywhere from 2 to 70 tons each.
I'll be bouncing around Asia and East Africa over the course of the next few months, and this is where I've decided to document it all! (mainly so that my long-term memory doesn't have to feel too guilty about its inevitable failure in the...