Comments on: Giza and Memphis

By: Mike78

Mike78 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:43:06 +0000

Did you grab any of the mentioned artifacts or stones etc for souvenirs? I think i would be sorely tempted to have a tiny piece of 4500 year old history on my window sill

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:36:25 +0000

Richard…
You have to have rain to have a leaky home

By: Pita

Pita — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:40:35 +0000

The memory of these great historical monuments is marred by the hawkers that swarm around you like flies and the litter that is strewn everywhere.

Hard to believe, but 60 years ago you could not see Cairo from Giza!

By: Shunda barunda

Shunda barunda — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:23:14 +0000

Weren’t those things built with the worlds first work for the dole scheme? Much harder to find good labour these days, though I guess there wasn’t much else to do, can’t imagine many Egyptian young men pimping their camels.

By: tom hunter

tom hunter — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:31:21 +0000

I think that first photo in the set deserves a caption competition. Me first:

“Ain’t no free market built these fuckers, fool!”

By: Sushi Goblin

Sushi Goblin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:45:31 +0000

What a shame the photographer didn’t position the pyramids properly, then you could have been photographed wearing a giant Illuminati helmet.

By: Richard Hurst

Richard Hurst — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:39:42 +0000

“The blocks have got worn over the years, but for 4,500 years of wear and tear they are holding up pretty good.”

So no leaky homes then? I guess the Pyramids weren’t Council certified….lucky them.

By: philu

philu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:32:55 +0000

and don’t forget ‘the life of brian’..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: Brian Smaller

Brian Smaller — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:18:06 +0000

My father also Brian – and most of the 2NZEF, I daresay!

Not to mention the 1NZEF, the Brits in the 19thC and Napoelon’s soldiers in 1799.

By: philu

philu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:17:08 +0000

that top picture looks like one of those things you used to do at school..

y’know..when you draw a triangle..?

and then draw a circle inside it..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: Murray

Murray — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:38:12 +0000

Is it just coinicidence that TVNZ is running a Win an Ancient Kingdoms Holiday to Egypt promo?

Two generations of my family went there did that got the t-shirt. The first ones had to shoot their own horses and the second lot learned a very strong dislike for sand and artillery fire that made the sand fill the holes they’d just dug.

I raced in the Maddi Cup 5 times so I get a partial credit.

By: Inventory2

Inventory2 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:15:01 +0000

My father also Brian – and most of the 2NZEF, I daresay!

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:14:49 +0000

You forgot the pictures of all the rubbish in the desert – quite a shock to us westerners.

Go for the camel if you get a chance – you just pay a baksheesh of $E 20 to the guide at the end on top of what you negotiate (around $E 50 is fair for a ride of around an hour). You will notice them bribing the police to get on certain bits of the desert – by now its just amusing when you see it.

By: Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:04:03 +0000

Looks like great fun. Thanks for sharing.

By: Chthoniid

Chthoniid — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:54:20 +0000

Oh dear, the ubiquitous KFC and Pizza Hut signs. They always evoke a feeling of dissonance.

By: Brian Smaller

Brian Smaller — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:45:45 +0000

It is no wonder that you aren’t allowed to climb to the top as too many people have carved their names into the stones at the top of the pyramids over the years – my Dad included in 1943.

BTW – do you think that the age of the structures there may have given way to the expression ‘that’s an old Giza’?

By: kiwicraig

kiwicraig — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:37:37 +0000

very cool DPF. You’ve got me looking forward to my Dec/Jan Egypt trip even more now…. I’ll be there at Giza on 27 December

By: getstaffed

getstaffed — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:21:45 +0000

What better way to spend a Monday than looking around the sole remaining wonder of the ancient world

Sole remaining? Jim Anderton’s still here.

By: RRM

RRM — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:21:03 +0000

Great photos dude, cheers for posting.

(I try to pay my respects at one of The Colonel’s monuments a couple of times a month… hater.)

By: malcolm

malcolm — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:18:28 +0000

Nice pics DPF. What are those triangle things in background?