Can you actually walk on the pyramids walls?

My students wanted to know if you can walk on the outside of the pyramids' walls.

Giza Pyramids

The first pyramids I had ever heard about as a child. Wow, the pyramids of legend and the top of most peoples “must see” lists. We finally made it to the piéce de resistance of all of the pyramids in the world. Driving through Cairo, you can see the pyramids from almost everywhere. When we landed at the airport and took our minivan to our hotel, I could see them out the window and couldn’t wait to get up close and personal.

The most incredible way to see them is to hire a camel and guide. You start walking through the maze of back streets getting a real taste of Cairo and then you walk into the desert riding high on its back. Definitely feeling like we were Lawrence of Arabia, we fantasized about how it must have felt to come upon these great monuments after a long caravan in the desert.

We were spoiled as well and got to the Pyramids twice. Riding in the Tour d’Afrique, we were lucky enough to cycle to the Pyramids of Giza at sunrise. Nobody else was around and we had them all to ourselves, stopping at the Sphynx and riding along side camels and their guides getting ready for the day.

Maybe it is because we had seen many temples and ruins before visiting this number one attraction in the world that it is only number 4 on our list, but we have enjoyed others that we found to be far more magical.

The Giza pyramids

Me and the wife went there last year and it was amazing, you can go into the middle pyramid(the one with icing on top, it cost a about £2 but you have to do it, you go down a little walkway about 4 foot square and then you enter a chamber, theres not much to look at inside but the experience is amazing, if you stay in Hurgadha you can get a mini bus or fly, a bus takes about 8 hours and costs about £60 each but you leave at 3am, by air its 55 mins and cost about £140 each with a tour guide and you leave at 6am, we went by air which alone was an experience which i would do again, i wont spoil it by telling you why try it for yourself.

Most evocative ruin experience in the world

There are two ways to really appreciate these most ancient ruins. Get let in before any one else & walk around in the dark with a dim torch. Lie in the Kings chamber, turn the torch off, listen and imagine the ancient powers of this wonder of the world. Or climb up at dusk, sleep on the top and descend at dawn. Otherwise this enormous 5,000 year old monument whose extraordinary structural achievement has baffled many, can look disappointing, being increasingly overshadowed by Cairo on its doorstep.

The Giza Pyramids

Built over 20 years by the Egyptian pharaoh, Khufu (Cheops) around the year 2560BC to serve as his tomb, The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of three pyramids at Giza. Each of the 200 million stone blocks used to construct the Great Pyramid weigh over 2 tonnes. When it was first constructed it was 145.75m high and was the worlds tallest structure, only to be surpassed as recently as the 19th Century. The other pyramids are the tombs of Menkaure and of Khafre, also thought to have commissioned the building of the Sphinx.

The Sphinx is also located on the Giza plateau along with a museum housing relics from inside the pyramids.