It's almost worth arriving in Cairo at midnight and then driving an hour across town to the Mena House Hotel for the amazing shock of opening your curtains in the morning and finding a couple of pyramids rearing up behind the palm trees in the hotel garden. This is probably the best view of them you will ever get because it cuts out all the intervening clutter - the road, the coachpark, the ramps, the camel touts, the souvenir shops, the Giza suburbs - and gives you just these extraordinary shapes which feel so familiar but yet so strange - the only survivors of the ancient Seven Wonders of...
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