You know how I told you about the dodgy tour and driver. Well Memphis was one of the places he raved about. Turns out it was because he wanted to drag me to a dodgy kebab joint where I paid 60 quid for a bad kebab and 20 quid each for beers.
Before that ripoff, we went to Memphis, once the capital of the Egyptian Empire, now a tatty museum where all the pieces not good enough to be in the British or Egyptian Museum are. Except for a huge reclining statue of Ramses II. That was ok.
I’m being too cruel, they also had a decomposing Sphinx
Where I wanted to go and where I will go before I leave is to see Sneferu‘s Bent and Red pyramids at Dahshur. But alas the driver had no means to extort money from me there so it wasn’t on the menu.
After I had run the gauntlet of the souvenir sellers at Memphis and the uninspired kebab, we made our way back to the stables at Giza. There were still a couple of hours of daylight left before the light show so I took myself to the roof of the stables where I had a very good view of the pyramid complex, ordered some tea and read my book for a couple of hours. I took a few photos from up here, but without filters everything was too washed out. Even after the sun was down it was still very bright.
