Met up with my tour group last night; 6 Aussies and 6 Canadians. One Canuk couple from Calgary - my second home and hubby works in the fraccing industry - so a lot in common. Even knew a couple of people I used to deal with. 
Range of ages from 22 to 80.
This morning, it was the Pyramids; lovely day, but air quality less then yesterday. I'm not going to give history etc (whew, I hear ...), just some pics of the tour and hopefully some of interest.
The 'Great Pyramid' of Khufu, built over 27 years in abt 2600 BC. Its a nice pile - 2.3 million blocks - of limestone!
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The 'Solar boat' that used to lie along one edge is gone, to the new Museum.
Paid an extra A$27 to go into the burial chamber; highly recommended unless yo are claustrophobic - or very unfit. Its warm to hot and a lot of steep climbing.
Entry and exit thought a 'modern' robbers adit. The constructed entry is above this.
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Walk along a rough tunnel for a bit
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Then up the first incline, a bit tight. People coming down have to pass you ...
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Then up a much longer incline, the Grand Gallery Again, two ways.
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Then a 10m crawl or very low stoop to the burial chamber. Hard to avoid getting people in the pic
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