My Adventure Through Life: Egypt 2- Pyramids, Yahoooo! エジプト２−ピラミッド,ひゃっほ〜！！！

From the diary:

"We woke up at 4:30 to make it to meeting at 5am, when we then headed to the bus. After 3 hours, we arrived at the Cairo museum. Among other things, we saw golden objects from King Tut's grave and also got to see a room with the actual tombs, where he was covered in 3 tomb layers, each decorated so so intricately and beautifully. There were many motifs of birds and bird wings and the lines and the patterns were just mind-blowing. It is strange to think to put together that much effort for someone’s death and on preserving that person. On top of the multilayered tomb, the tomb and objects were in 9 boxes all together (like matoryoshka Russian dolls). I just wish we had more time, as we only had 1 hr to listen and look at these things. "

日記から：

『４時半に起きて５時に集合、そこからバスに乗った。３時間後、カイロ博物館につく。たくさんのものがあるなか、ツタンカーメンのお墓からの金でつくられた物や、お墓も見られた。お棺の入れ物は３層もあって、とても細かくきれいな模様が施してある。鳥や翼のモチーフが、本当に細かくてきれい。だれかの死にこんなにも時間や努力を費やせるのは不思議な感覚。何層もで作られたお棺だけでなく、それが入る９個の箱（ロシアのマトリョーシカみたい）も見た。１時間しか見て聞く時間がなかったから、もうちょっと時間が欲しかったなぁ〜』

After the museum we went to a restaurant. We passed Nile river, and other small streams with heaps and heaps of trash and a dead horse. It was difficult to comprehend that this was normal here, and also in the background of this townscape, we could see the pyramids at the back.

Can you see it?

博物館の後はお昼ご飯。ナイル川も通り過ぎたけど、ほかの小川みたいなそばをとおると、そこはたくさんのゴミであふれている。死んだ馬もいた。これがここで普通なのかな？と理解しがたかったけど、その景色の中には、ピラミッドも遠くに見える。

読んでいるみんなは見えるかな？

Once done with a yummy meal, we headed to the biggest pyramid first-146m high. The traders were very strong willed- I managed to get away by not looking them in the eye and going straight to the pyramids, but later I heard a story was that they would say getting on the camel would be a present, but would ask for money once time came for getting off- one Japanese tourist had paid $100 to get off.

おいしいご飯を食べた後は、待ちに待ったピラミッド！最初は一番大きいやつー１４６mもある。物売りの人たちは、とても強引。目をあまり合わせないで、まっすぐピラミッドのほうに歩いて私は免れたけど、こんな話もきいた。らくだにただで乗せてあげる、と言って、乗せたと思ったら降りるためにお金を責められる。ある日本の人は＄１００も払って降りられたみたい。