From some angles you feel like they're coming down from the sky, just about to land on the houses of Giza. The truth is not far from this. The residents area ends, then there is a border of shacks, before the bedrock carrying the pyramids rise some five metres above everything else. Even if the photos lie, the photographers did not. Just 2 minutes walk up the hill to the middle pyramid, makes you forget all about the metropolis lying behind you.
Hustlers here are just as they have been for centuries.
A bit aggressive, and all set on leading you away from what you set out for. Shun them, they're okay, but they don't seem to comprehend that 4,500 years old pyramids are more interesting when you can touch them, than they are from the hills a kilometre away. If there ever was anything positive about militant Islamism, then clearing the Pyramids of the hordes of tourists that used to come here, is the one thing. Today you can wander without the numberless groups of tourists, who are friendly, but who destroy the feeling the pyramids can offer. It's made up of 2,300,000 blocks, with the average weight of 2,5 tons.