Suddenly the Pyramids appear on the skyline – these ancient Wonders of the Word built over 4,000 years ago juxtaposed against the busy city traffic, advertising hoardings and tower cranes constructing the new Cairo Museum. The latter has evidently been under construction for a few years and yet is hardly out the ground – just another moribund project in this troubled country.
The suburb of Giza comes within a few hundred metres of the Pyramids and Sphinx. There is still empty desert beyond with the odd camel on the horizon paid to be their by the Tourist police fleecing tourists by encouraging them to take pictures of these distant figures from a particular vantage point for dollars or euros or then deliberately walking into your frame and demanding a tip. Just some of the many ways that the hawkers and vendors use to get you to part with money or trying to put something into your had and telling you it is a gift and then demanding money often in a threatening way.
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