hi we are nicole amiko a canadian couple who have been traveling the world full time since
march 2021. we have spent the past few months adventuring in turkey jordan israel and palestine
and in our last video we made our way to one of jerusalem's most iconic sites shortly before
racing to the airport and almost missing the flight to our next country egypt today in cairo
we explore an ancient wonder of the world that has a history as vibrant and as engaging as its people
it's like a school like field trip day or something welcome to egypt oh my god we're
in cairo in front of the pyramids and uh like as soon as you get off
the the taxi it's just people are just warming charging
hello and uh i think uh all of egypt is here today yes all of the schools are here at least yeah yeah
what's a photo of you so the kids have all taken a liking to nicole
and they want to take selfies with them
where are you from where you from yeah
okay
maybe not his best choice oh my gosh
all right okay pulley welcome to egypt all right run over hey
we've held up the horse and carriage behind me because the kids want to take a photo with nicole
this horse is just just full on stopped
i'm actually exhausted i've only been here for 10 minutes oh my gosh
nicole has been here before so this is not her first time seeing it it's been like
11 years or something though it's been a long and this is my first time
but 11 years do you think the sphinx looks different she still has no nose
what'd you do i just rolled my ankle and i heard it pop
i wanted to start off exploring the pyramids in the giza plateau over there
that that little step right there that you can see that's where you fell
i'm hurting for you because i know how much this must hurt if you're actually wincing
no that's good we're good okay there's a lot going on watch out people to be fair there's like a lot
to look at and the last thing you're looking at is your feet you're just inundated with everything
shoot are you okay yeah i'll be good yeah let's go i can bear weight that's all i'll need for today
this is honestly so cool like i've been here before and it's still so cool
cool i'm a celebrity yeah i got some photos with some kids earlier too i mean
i think you had to ask for them i was like why not me guys why not take photos with me
i'm gonna lie it was i think an interesting choice doing like a lion body and like a
head of a human it's kind of like a strange
well i think it's supposed to be like it's symbolism right yeah the lion is like to be feared
yeah to be feared yeah okay you heard that as well and then the head is to be respected symbolism
where is the nose in the museum somewhere i don't remember which one i believe it's in egypt i don't
know why they just placed the nose from the face i bet you then those came off of the face and then
someone in the museum i don't know if you know educate us tell us i'd be interested to hear
man people get really creative taking photos with me with the sphinx it's kind of funny to watch
the people are so creative oh my gosh
and people trying to sell you a camel or a horse ride relentless no better no worse than petra hey
yeah feels the same i think it's pretty similar yeah i know people are
trying to prep you when you go to the pyramids to
get ready yeah get ready for the the droves of people asking you for things but it's not really
any different terrible though than what i've been seeing in the past so no it's just that'd be firm
yeah camera ride no do you want one later no show zero interest you don't even like photos
pretty good view of the tuna sandwich
that's how you save money bringing your own lunch picnic lunch at the pyramids not a bad view right
so these pyramids are like five thousand almost five thousand years old and um
they've been uh slowly eroding away over the millennia
so originally i think when it was built it was white limestone on top and then degrading over
the years and only one of them has the top uh limestone piece you can kind of see it there
the pyramids were also um built basically like lockers for the um for the pharaohs that um they
belong to so basically when the pharaoh died they kept all their belongings like favorite things
favorite even favorite pets things like that put it all inside this pyramid and uh the idea is that
all the your their favorite things and their body will meet them in the afterlife so pets
yeah anyone else hear that
also importantly how's that ankle oh my god this uh this might be the only set of pyramids
we'll see today yeah we were thinking about hitting up a few more places in cairo today
but i have a feeling that uh this might be the only thing we do today that's okay we'll rest
it's hot oh good yes okay i'm just trying to eat my lunch i thought we were here to see
the pyramids but i guess there's a more popular attraction
right there a celebrity i don't know i don't know i'm
i not in my mind i picture the pyramus be like in the middle of the desert but they're literally
like right behind like giza or cairo right like literally pyramids and then right there cairo
across the street from the ticket office was a kfc and pizza hut and a pizza hut so uh yeah you don't
you don't have to venture days in the desert to find the pyramids
gotta rest the ankle folks you just imagine what it may have looked like back in the day
when it was all covered in white limestone it was originally thought that slaves built the pyramids
we read that their the recent idea is actually that it wasn't slaves with the pyramids because
they are buried somewhere really lovely very nearby and the thought is that they wouldn't
have buried this lives close by and treated them well in their death if they were slaves
it was aliens guys aliens built the pyramids these are mammoth structures it looks like
it's like a piece of like hanging off the top very tippy top yeah see that right it might fall
sometime in the next few millennia few centuries guys i think i think a camel just snuck up on us
you know it's a pretty hot day today it's nice to find a little bit of shade it's a good thing
that somebody put this massive pyramid here this is no shade in the desert no [ __ ] at all
goodness someone built this big shade machine this is very convenient the scale of it just kind of
washes away when you get right up to it
but then when we were driving here from like cairo you can see it from so far away yeah
oh hello thank you yeah video oh we're on video yeah
i don't know if you guys caught that there's a guard here i heard about this i'd read it online
that they'll say oh no video and you're allowed to take videos here and that they want like money
because to allow you to continue to take video so and you said we could go up and climb on the
pyramids which you've also heard about but the guards will let you go up and it's just obviously
expected that after you climb up a bit um you give them a little tip for letting you go out
i think we're good i don't really want to stand on the ancient monument seems sacrilegious
should we go inside try and find the entrance we want to go inside one of these pyramids i
don't even know which one we're supposed to go into thank you so much success
which is the big one the great pyramid is that guys let's go and that one it ain't this one
limping over here
those horse rides are getting more and more tempting
just climbing the pyramid no big deal
we opted to go inside of the big pyramid you can do a little one as well and it's
a little less money who you just want how often do you have the pyramids okay
these stairs aren't really stairs they're like i don't even know if you consider this a ladder
because i'm a little scared people we're not gonna fall hot and stuffy in here i guess ventilation
wasn't really uh required when you're uh building a mausoleum for yourself you know
the bigger problem is there's people trying to come down when we go up oh that was one way nope
it's like i feel like we entered like a humid country
it's like something's it smells like something's like molding or like rotting or something i think
it's the wood like this is like the way for like the banisters is like like it feels soft
so he's not here anymore
that's where the pharaoh was once buried we have the whole place to ourselves
so the pharaoh's like sarcophagus
is actually much bigger than like the entrance ways to get in here so they say
that the sarcophagus was placed here first and then the pyramids were like built around it that
so this thing this little hole in the wall right here leads to the outside of the pyramid
and it was built so that the pharaoh's soul could actually exit the pyramid through this
tiny little hole here so from the sarcophagus over there soul transfers and moves into the
hole and out the pyramids super cool i think when they found it it was filled
with like the pharaoh's belongings and like lots of like gold and like expensive things
obviously all that's been taken out today and it's just like a really big
like room okay it's seriously hot and humid should we go let's go this place
oh
next to people having photos but like arms and heads and no um
well guys i can tell you after being famous for a day it sucks
paparazzi just you just can't escape them
all right well i think uh i think it's been a long day
because but it's still broken so and nicole is tired of being a celebrity so i'm over that i'm
gonna end off our day here it's been an awesome tour of the pyramids there's lots to do here
more than just the pyramids but the people have been very engaging very entertaining
they've been very entertained today so i think we'll end it off there thanks so much
and catch you in for next one we'll see you next time yeah pretty neat how are the sounds
over here they're very overwhelming and things like that yeah everybody wants to take
you come out sticky it's moist in there even if like it's yeah you're just gonna
be sticky get ready for sticky it's kind of a lot it adds to the experience
why are you shaking your head at me less use of the word sticky bye