PheonixRising opened this issue on Mar 14, 2002 ยท 43 posts
praxis22 posted Sat, 16 March 2002 at 5:35 PM
Very nice stuff! Looks a lot like the real thing, (only brighter :) I was in Egypt last year, I knew it was new year because they turn the pyramids off at twelve :) Great place, but if you're going, make a day trip to Giza, stay near Karnak, (Luxor) on the Nile. The Hilton is good, but the Sheraton is closer to the temple. Which is bloddy amazing, you cannot begin to believe the scope and scale of this thing. Oh and the best seats for the sound and light show are top left on the "bleachers" behind the sacred lake. :) Tutankhamun's tomb is very small though, not much to see, especially in comparison to the tombs of Ramses II and others. Oh yeah, forget about riding a camel if you don't want to be saddle sore for a week :) Oh, and if you want to get into Hatshepsut's temple you need to get up at 5am! I was happy enough wandering around the outside :) All of the above is stored in the Cairo Museum, which will take you a whole day to get around at least, only take a guide book, or you'll never know what you're looking at, tens of thousands of exhibits and maybe a few hundred have labels :) I didn't go see the mummies, but the Jewelery room with Tut's Mask, etc. Was very impressive! The two renders above are damn near flawless. later jb