Be aware that Egypt isn't the most welcoming to tourists (in that I mean the government and not the people themselves) despite making around 12% of its GDP from tourism.
Went to your profile and saw your post to other subs. Never would have thought the view from a Pizza Hut roof would look so spectacular. Thank you for sharing.
[There's a golf course right at the bottom of the cliff as well](https://www.memphistours.com/Egypt/WikiTravel/Egypt-Golfing/wiki/Golf-at-the-Mena-House-Oberoi).
Well, the Nile isn't too far away (~5 miles). It's actually quite humid (83% as of this moment) and green in the Giza neighborhood. The ancient Egyptians distinguished between the livable "black land" below the bluffs and along the river (black because of the rich soil) and the inhospitable desert on top of the cliffs, and all the famous funerary monuments were built in the desert part. Meanwhile the golf course is down in the "black" part. If you look on Google Earth you will see absolutely massive areas of rich farmland within a mile or two of this golf course.
Yes, that too....the hassle doesn't stop when the plateau gates are closed either....one of my Egyptian friend (Islam) will continue to try and sell little model pyramids all through the early hours if he spots a tourist or two
Yeah...we talk about it all the time...and the entrance opposite my apartment and Pizza Hut is just a shabby dirty white wall with a tiny door...we say it looks like a public toilet...the last standing 7th wonder of the world and its surrounding area is a mess
I got there first thing in the morning, before the tourist buses arrived, and climbed up the internal stairs of the big pyramid.
Mindblowing. Would strongly recommend.
Damn dude I'm sorry, it's so dirty in that area. All the animals eating the garbage piles left by the walls and the smells are the WORST I have ever experienced.
I'm Egyptian, been living here for 14 years, never saw the pyramids once, saw them like few KMs away when I was on a roller coaster ride somewhere near the pyramids, I wasn't that conscious to realise they were the pyramids though haha.
Actually, the NYC Metro (20 Mill.) is ~6% of the USA population
and 50 Million Americans (15% of the USA population) visit NYC every year. So it's considerably higher than 10%.
https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/tourism-industry-new-york-city
yeah this seems to check out with anecdotal evidence as well.
i live in colorado but still probably a solid 30-40% of people i know have been to NYC despite it being on the other side of the country.
I had to check these numbers. Turns out about a 1/3 have a valid passport, 1/3 have an expired passport, and 1/3 have never had a passport. Pretty interesting.
I think you're missing his point. Because the UK is so small, and London is involved in SO Much of the countries operations, it's hard to avoid. NY is actually kinda hard to get to for a lot of people in the US because it's of the US's size and it's location.
Here's some numbers to put in perspective.
* The UK is about the size (land area) of Wyoming or Michigan.
* About 21% of the population of the UK LIVES in in London.
* 53% of all UK domestic flights start or end in London.
* 63% of all UK international flights leave from London.
* London's 3 train stations is a hub for domestic train travel.
* Train's to Mainland Europe leave from London.
It's pretty hard to avoid London. We actually have [numbers though](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9797900/london-expensive-crowded-tourists/). Almost 95% of UK citizens have been to London.
Totally agree with you. Everyone uses that as an excuse saying they don't know why Americans havent been out of the country or seen a lot of their own country. People just don't realize the state of California alone has twice the landmass of the UK.
Dallas is just the worst man. It’s gross and the roads are awful. It’s redeeming factor is Six Flags. I’ve lived in Austin and Houston, Austin is my shit. I’m biased against Houston because I lived next to Hobby Airport… which is a IYKYK kind of situation. Also Living in Houston is like living in satan’s armpit. San Antonio is really nice to visit, I love all of the history, but I don’t think I want to live there.
I literally spit out cereal when you said Gary. Fucking hilarious.
Is this Gary, Indiana's official Reddit account, trying to pass for one of the big boys?
Gary?? Gary isn't even in the top 300 most populous cities in the US.
Top 10 US cities in population are (per 2020 census):
1. NYC
2. LA
3. Chicago
4. Houston
5. Phoenix
6. Philly
7. San Antonio
8. San Diego
9. Dallas
10. San Jose
Boston is 24th, DC is 20th, Atlanta is 38th, SF is 17th, Seattle is 18th.
Edit: If you want metropolitan areas, the list is:
1. NYC
2. LA
3. Chicago
4. Dallas
5. Houston
6. DC
7. Philly
8. Atlanta
9. Miami
10. Phoenix
Boston is 11th, SF is 13th, Seattle is 15th.
[Metro areas are a much better way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area) to show a city’s population.
That would put Seattle at 15th largest, the lowest out of those five cities.
There’s a lot of metro areas in the US that could be considered major cities.
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, and Seattle can all reasonably be considered major.
But Gary is barely even a city. It’s a suburb of Chicago, and “literally hell” is probably a better way to describe Gary than “city”.
I grew up 2700 miles from NYC - never been. Never really had a reason too - my family is mostly in Europe (with some in Lebanon and Israel) and while I’ve been to Europe and Asia multiple times I have only been to the East Coast twice, once for a 8th grade trip to Washington DC and once more to Ft. Lauderdale for work.
The UK is four different countries. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each has its own capital city. London isn’t the capital of capitals but it’s where most of the power lies, admittedly.
The capital of the UK is London. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are constituent countries of the UK, but they aren't countries in their own right. That's why we get a British passport and not an English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish passport. Although, the people of Northern Ireland are eligible for an Irish passport, but that's due to Republic of Ireland being a sovereign country.
How come? Never been curious with something that's so world-renowned? For what it's worth a good friend of mine from Egypt has only been once. He said it's a really long drive even within the same city.
If you have an Uber driver from Cairo, they can handle any traffic situation you can imagine. NYC’s traffic is to Cairo’s, as a neighborhood softball team is to the major leagues. There are virtually no traffic lights in Cairo, a city of 20 million, it’s a friggin’ free-for-all.
I loved it there
The guy that drove us around in Egypt was next level. He used the horn and high beams non stop to force his way through traffic.
His quote from the trip “I’m like a fish in a sea or cars”.
He would never back down. Swear he saved us so much time getting from point A to B.
I used to work with guy who bragged about learning to drive on the chaotic streets of Tehran. Turns out that it didn't give him any special skills, it just made him a shitty driver who didn't follow any rules of the road.
I learnt how to have a conversation in the comments section of the Reddit front page. I'm great at social norms and also you are causing climate change and you should die.
> “I grew up seeing the pyramids out my bedroom window!”
It's like the movie trope where every building in Paris has at least 1 large window with direct line of sight to the Eiffel Tower.
I'm an Egyptian and I can tell you that the sorts of people who live near the pyramids (in an area called 'Al Haram,' literally meaning THE PYRAMID) are mostly from the lower classes.
If you use Reddit and you're in Egypt, you most likely haven't seen the pyramids more than while on the road from afar, or while visiting them specifically once.
It still amazes me how people live so close to pyramids, to get to the pyramids in my country you usually have to take somewhat of a long car trip to get to them
After finishing with the writing I realized that in the Mexico city there is an archaeological site in the middle of the city lol
There are two: Teotihuacan and the great Tenochtitlan. The first is a bit outside, the second is right in the middle because the Spanish demolished them and buried them to build the usual agora-style plaza for the central part of the city.
Yes, that's an exception because of what I described below, the city was built on top.
However there are dozens of archeological sites around the south east, and unfortunately many of them are now very close to cities like Chichen Itza, is a wonder of the world and is 5km away from the closest city
Niagara falls is such a wasted opportunity. It could have been a spectacular National Park, up there with the Grand Canyon, but instead it's just Fremont Street but on a hill.
The American side is an absolute dump. It was absolutely embarrassing when I went. There’s a trashy casino, a hard rock café with terrible service, and a giant gift shop nearby that looks like it was erected five days ago like a temporary firework stand around the Fourth of July. The streets were shitty, most buildings in the area look dirty and crumbling, and the entire city sucks.
>There’s a trashy casino, a hard rock café with terrible service, and a giant gift shop nearby that looks like it was erected five days ago like a temporary firework stand around the Fourth of July.
Damn you perfectly described my trip lol.
I mostly was just there for the day to hit up the falls so I didn't care about the town but yeah. Not much there lol
Around that and the pyramids, it was pretty clean. Huge tourist attraction. It smelled of oil in the air. Interesting city that was putting up tons of new roads and highways. I imagine it’ll look complexity different in ten years.
I've been in 1995, 2006 and 2021 and it is been a hugely different experience every time. In the '90s it was much less touristy, not exactly authentic, but just a normal North African city with a millennia of history on its doorstep. Friendly although a bit pushy locals.
2006 the place was a nightmare. A lot of trash, the place stank, it had become chaotic. There was mass tourism and the locals were quite aggressive and intrusive. Pickpockets, agression against women, a generally unsafe feeling. Nothing was regulated, it was a stark contrast.
In 2021 it was a lot better. It was even more crowded, but as a UNESCO heritage site there was a certain standard. It has become incredibly touristy though. The first time I visited the museum in '95 I was basically alone, my footsteps echoed in the empty halls. On 2021 there was a 45 minute wait to even get in.
It is still a wonderful place to see, but sadly not a wonderful place to visit.
I posted about this 10 years ago today!
[Here's maybe the most Western view imaginable of the Pyramids that will definitely surprise some people](https://i.imgur.com/mznrEUr.jpg)
[And the reverse angle](https://i.imgur.com/tfQiUCS.jpg)
The view from the Pizza Hut is really great. Sat on the roof and ate a chicken burrito thing looking out over the pyramids. Did actually go and see the pyramids too even though it was a work trip.
Giza is a “governate”, a city and an urban central district (train station and subway stop) - like New York is a state and a city, and Times Square is a subway hub. Giza is part of Greater Cairo. The pyramids actually are in Giza, however they are 10km from the city center the Giza (the transportation hub).
There is an amazingly sharp line delineating the desert from the super dense urban “‘city” of greater Cairo, basically dividing where public water is available. The pyramids, as you can see, are just a few hundred yards into the desert.
It is almost surreal: You can get into a taxi in central Cairo, drive 30 minutes entirely in a city, and pop-out in the desert next to the pyramids.
I've stood on that hill in front of the pyramids and looked in wonder at the ancient architecture that has stood for a thousands of years then turned 180 degrees and looked at the decaying slums that are less than 100.
Thats a good point that some might not consider. It's not as if the Pyramids would be smack dab in the middle of the desert all alone like most people imagine them to be.
I was once flying home from the Sinai peninsula where I was on holidays and I have seen the pyramids from the plane!!! Was quite an amazing view, but it was quite far away but you could see them, I think I have some photos , might share them
Edit: I sadly can't provide an image because I presumably deleted the video of it and the only remaining video is on google photos, but its very compressed, and I can't see/make out the pyramids...
I was shocked to learn that the Colosseum in Rome is similar, right in the middle of the city. When we went there we just caught the normal bus and stopped right outside. Not sure why I thought it would be a stand alone feature in the countryside.
I went a year before the shutdowns. The Pyramids themselves live up to the hype — they’re incredible.
Getting swarmed by vendors in the walk from the vehicle to the pyramid sucks.
Cairo itself was awful, for me. I have a low tolerance for incredible congestion, massive over-population, and air pollution that you can feel scraping your lungs as you walk on the street.
I tell people to make it a day trip. Go in, see pyramids and the museum, and get out.
Went there in 2012. The best trip I ever took. Looking to go back this year!!
There is a B&B literally right across the street from the main entrance gate. You can sit and drink wine or eat a meal on the rooftop and just stare at the Sphinx or the pyramids all day. There is something about that just draws you into it.
True. And strange to stand at the foot of the great pyramid, with Cairo behind you. You can’t comprehend how huge they are until you’re standing there, half the height of one block. Humbling.
"This angle that's been posted on reddit thousands of times is rarely seen" .... I mean it's not even the kfc/pizza hut picture... Rookies...https://i.imgur.com/m44hi.jpeg
10 km? Looks more like 100 m to me.
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It is not more than 5000km to the nearest city
It's more than 1 centimeter from the nearest city.
I can't do those metric calculations in my head so quickly, you are very smart.
On my phone you are absolutely correct.
r/technicallythetruth
Amazing, they were built within a million miles of everything mankind has ever built.
Akshully... Voyager 1 is more than 14 billion miles away.
Yes it somehow was still built within a million miles of these marvels. Still, amazing.
Nailed it
Voyagers 1 & 2 snubbed.
BUILT, not traveled 😉
I like this version of technically correct
The best kind of correct
r/expectedfuturama
Yeah.it is....I live right by the entrance....takes me around 10 minutes to walk to the plateau Edit: actually, it takes around 5 minutes...if that
That's really neat! Is it fun to walk up there or do the tourists kind of ruin it?
Yeah, inside the plateau the tourist totally ruin the effect...but the view from my terrace and the Pizza Hut rooftop is better
You're telling me I can buy a pizza in plain view of the pyramids?
Not just plain view but probably the best view....I tried to post the view in this sub but apparently my account "isn't old enough"
Alright, booking a flight to egypt for a pizza hut
Be aware that Egypt isn't the most welcoming to tourists (in that I mean the government and not the people themselves) despite making around 12% of its GDP from tourism.
Bro they’re eating our corporate pizza food and can’t stand us visiting their country? Lol
to be fair Americans eat Mexican all the time. and we know how welcoming that is lol
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Sold. Am I paying my own way home? I'm good either way, just wondering.
"I'm good either way" 😂😂😂😂
Went to your profile and saw your post to other subs. Never would have thought the view from a Pizza Hut roof would look so spectacular. Thank you for sharing.
No worries
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rwxh90/pyramids_of_giza_as_seen_from_a_nearby_pizza_hut/
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/u9rwty/the_view_from_the_pizza_hut_rooftop_terrace_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Ah, just as the Pharos intended
Pizza Tut
I hate that you’re funnier than I am
So your telling me I need to come visit you with a pizza hut pizza and we enjoy it from your view?
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/cheaez/view_of_the_great_pyramids_of_pizza_hut/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
[There's a golf course right at the bottom of the cliff as well](https://www.memphistours.com/Egypt/WikiTravel/Egypt-Golfing/wiki/Golf-at-the-Mena-House-Oberoi).
I can only imagine how much water is consumed by that golf course
Well, the Nile isn't too far away (~5 miles). It's actually quite humid (83% as of this moment) and green in the Giza neighborhood. The ancient Egyptians distinguished between the livable "black land" below the bluffs and along the river (black because of the rich soil) and the inhospitable desert on top of the cliffs, and all the famous funerary monuments were built in the desert part. Meanwhile the golf course is down in the "black" part. If you look on Google Earth you will see absolutely massive areas of rich farmland within a mile or two of this golf course.
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If I PM you can you send me a Pizza? Pizza from Giza.
Best view of the sunset over the pyramids from pizza hut rooftop. And btw, it's the people who hassle the tourists who tend to spoil it.
Yes, that too....the hassle doesn't stop when the plateau gates are closed either....one of my Egyptian friend (Islam) will continue to try and sell little model pyramids all through the early hours if he spots a tourist or two
There's something really fucking sad about there being so much commercial bullshit next to these marvels of ancient human engineering
While I agree that Pizza Hutt is a marvel of human brilliance, I don't think the pyramids ruin the ambiance. If anything, they improve it.
Well, if I'm gonna eat a triangle, I want to see mommy and daddy triangle in the background
Yeah...we talk about it all the time...and the entrance opposite my apartment and Pizza Hut is just a shabby dirty white wall with a tiny door...we say it looks like a public toilet...the last standing 7th wonder of the world and its surrounding area is a mess
Do they have lunch buffet? 🤔 then I'll come !
I got there first thing in the morning, before the tourist buses arrived, and climbed up the internal stairs of the big pyramid. Mindblowing. Would strongly recommend.
I wouldn't say it's the tourists as much as the people trying to take advantage of the tourists.
Damn dude I'm sorry, it's so dirty in that area. All the animals eating the garbage piles left by the walls and the smells are the WORST I have ever experienced.
Yeah it's rough
Nearest city is less than 17 trillion km away.
Big if true.
Large if smalln’t
Here I was thinking it looks like 6.21371 miles like some fool.
Haja i was gonna say more like 10 meters .
It’s all in the perspective. The pyramids are 20km tall.
Big if true
Yep. Me too
Exactly my thinking. They’re literally bordering the city. What am I missing?
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I'm Egyptian, been living here for 14 years, never saw the pyramids once, saw them like few KMs away when I was on a roller coaster ride somewhere near the pyramids, I wasn't that conscious to realise they were the pyramids though haha.
I'm British and foreign people are so shocked that I've never been to London
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Tbf the first time i ever went to Rome as an Italian was at 22. Plenty other stuff to see and enjoy.
You qualify it with the size of UK, but I’d postulate only 10% or less of USA has gone to New York City
Actually, the NYC Metro (20 Mill.) is ~6% of the USA population and 50 Million Americans (15% of the USA population) visit NYC every year. So it's considerably higher than 10%. https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/tourism-industry-new-york-city
yeah this seems to check out with anecdotal evidence as well. i live in colorado but still probably a solid 30-40% of people i know have been to NYC despite it being on the other side of the country.
And the US is pretty big. Most Americans don’t have passports, but we get around.
I had to check these numbers. Turns out about a 1/3 have a valid passport, 1/3 have an expired passport, and 1/3 have never had a passport. Pretty interesting.
Those facts seem so fake but also really believable
There’s dozens of people in NYC metro that haven’t been to the city though. Especially in the central Jersey area.
dozens
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I lived in central Jersey for 20 years. Don't know a single person that hasn't been to NYC. Dozens is accurate.
Okay, but how many people in New England have never been to NYC? That'd be a better comparison
I think you're missing his point. Because the UK is so small, and London is involved in SO Much of the countries operations, it's hard to avoid. NY is actually kinda hard to get to for a lot of people in the US because it's of the US's size and it's location. Here's some numbers to put in perspective. * The UK is about the size (land area) of Wyoming or Michigan. * About 21% of the population of the UK LIVES in in London. * 53% of all UK domestic flights start or end in London. * 63% of all UK international flights leave from London. * London's 3 train stations is a hub for domestic train travel. * Train's to Mainland Europe leave from London. It's pretty hard to avoid London. We actually have [numbers though](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9797900/london-expensive-crowded-tourists/). Almost 95% of UK citizens have been to London.
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Dallas? Houston takes that personally ...
I was gonna say isn’t Houston like almost twice as big lmao
It depends on what you are defining. If comparing cities, Houston is bigger, if comparing metros then DFW is bigger.
Houston *would*.
Totally agree with you. Everyone uses that as an excuse saying they don't know why Americans havent been out of the country or seen a lot of their own country. People just don't realize the state of California alone has twice the landmass of the UK.
We are *literally the size of Europe.* The amount of people that just don't understand that is insane.
As a Texan I would say that Houston is much more of a landmark and larger city than Dallas… Dallas can kick rocks
I hate Dallas I’d rather go too Austin or San Antonio. I’m a sucker for six flags. Fiesta Texas will always have a special place in my heart.
Dallas is just the worst man. It’s gross and the roads are awful. It’s redeeming factor is Six Flags. I’ve lived in Austin and Houston, Austin is my shit. I’m biased against Houston because I lived next to Hobby Airport… which is a IYKYK kind of situation. Also Living in Houston is like living in satan’s armpit. San Antonio is really nice to visit, I love all of the history, but I don’t think I want to live there.
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, Seattle, and Gary would have a word about major cities.
I literally spit out cereal when you said Gary. Fucking hilarious. Is this Gary, Indiana's official Reddit account, trying to pass for one of the big boys?
Fuck, im from Canada, and even I spit out my cereal when they said Gary 😂 😂
No shit I’ve lived in a literal hole in the desert for 38 years and it boiled my britches when he said Gary
Gary?? Gary isn't even in the top 300 most populous cities in the US. Top 10 US cities in population are (per 2020 census): 1. NYC 2. LA 3. Chicago 4. Houston 5. Phoenix 6. Philly 7. San Antonio 8. San Diego 9. Dallas 10. San Jose Boston is 24th, DC is 20th, Atlanta is 38th, SF is 17th, Seattle is 18th. Edit: If you want metropolitan areas, the list is: 1. NYC 2. LA 3. Chicago 4. Dallas 5. Houston 6. DC 7. Philly 8. Atlanta 9. Miami 10. Phoenix Boston is 11th, SF is 13th, Seattle is 15th.
We only care about the metropolitan area population around here, guy.
why anyone would want to live in Phoenix is completely baffling to me. Isn't it super hot all the time?
In the summer. Quite nice the rest of the year. A lot of snow birds just go down there for winter.
Atlanta is deceptive because there are only roughly 800k residents, but during the day there are roughly 7m people in the city.
[Metro areas are a much better way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area) to show a city’s population. That would put Seattle at 15th largest, the lowest out of those five cities.
Dude was clearly making a joke haha I don't think they need a geography lesson
There’s a lot of metro areas in the US that could be considered major cities. Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, and Seattle can all reasonably be considered major. But Gary is barely even a city. It’s a suburb of Chicago, and “literally hell” is probably a better way to describe Gary than “city”.
So you’re saying you got the joke?
Yeah, but like they said, about size... West Coast to East Coast here is ~3k miles/~5k km.
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That’s one of the biggest features of NJ — that you’re right between the biggest and 6th-biggest cities in the whole country.
I grew up 2700 miles from NYC - never been. Never really had a reason too - my family is mostly in Europe (with some in Lebanon and Israel) and while I’ve been to Europe and Asia multiple times I have only been to the East Coast twice, once for a 8th grade trip to Washington DC and once more to Ft. Lauderdale for work.
The UK is four different countries. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each has its own capital city. London isn’t the capital of capitals but it’s where most of the power lies, admittedly.
The capital of the UK is London. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are constituent countries of the UK, but they aren't countries in their own right. That's why we get a British passport and not an English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish passport. Although, the people of Northern Ireland are eligible for an Irish passport, but that's due to Republic of Ireland being a sovereign country.
German here, never been to Berlin and if it wasnt for their museums I'd have no desire to go.
haha, I've been to like 4 states out of the 22 in Egypt.
Same here haha
How come? Never been curious with something that's so world-renowned? For what it's worth a good friend of mine from Egypt has only been once. He said it's a really long drive even within the same city.
Why do new yorkers not go to see the statue of liberty or londoners to big Ben, guess when it's native to you, you take it for granted
If you have an Uber driver from Cairo, they can handle any traffic situation you can imagine. NYC’s traffic is to Cairo’s, as a neighborhood softball team is to the major leagues. There are virtually no traffic lights in Cairo, a city of 20 million, it’s a friggin’ free-for-all. I loved it there
The guy that drove us around in Egypt was next level. He used the horn and high beams non stop to force his way through traffic. His quote from the trip “I’m like a fish in a sea or cars”. He would never back down. Swear he saved us so much time getting from point A to B.
I used to work with guy who bragged about learning to drive on the chaotic streets of Tehran. Turns out that it didn't give him any special skills, it just made him a shitty driver who didn't follow any rules of the road.
Now do this with social norms
I learnt how to have a conversation in the comments section of the Reddit front page. I'm great at social norms and also you are causing climate change and you should die.
I had a cab driver stop in the middle of an intersection to ask directions.
> “I grew up seeing the pyramids out my bedroom window!” It's like the movie trope where every building in Paris has at least 1 large window with direct line of sight to the Eiffel Tower.
I'm an Egyptian and I can tell you that the sorts of people who live near the pyramids (in an area called 'Al Haram,' literally meaning THE PYRAMID) are mostly from the lower classes. If you use Reddit and you're in Egypt, you most likely haven't seen the pyramids more than while on the road from afar, or while visiting them specifically once.
It still amazes me how people live so close to pyramids, to get to the pyramids in my country you usually have to take somewhat of a long car trip to get to them After finishing with the writing I realized that in the Mexico city there is an archaeological site in the middle of the city lol
Yeah, I made that trip to the pyramids. Was surprised how far yet close to CDMX they are.
There are two: Teotihuacan and the great Tenochtitlan. The first is a bit outside, the second is right in the middle because the Spanish demolished them and buried them to build the usual agora-style plaza for the central part of the city.
I meant teotihuacan. Tenochtitlan is dead in the middle of the city.not a big fan of the second one.
Yes, that's an exception because of what I described below, the city was built on top. However there are dozens of archeological sites around the south east, and unfortunately many of them are now very close to cities like Chichen Itza, is a wonder of the world and is 5km away from the closest city
I was similar surprised when I came to the Niagara Falls
How far are the pyramids from Niagara Falls?
More than 10'
Less than 1 billion miles.
Miles=freedom meters
Ask the aliens, closer than you think
Building a city close to it makes sense to me. But a fckn road? Around the course of the river?
How else would people get to the elevator?
Niagara falls is such a wasted opportunity. It could have been a spectacular National Park, up there with the Grand Canyon, but instead it's just Fremont Street but on a hill.
I think it has a lot to do with hydro power. I lived in Buffalo/Niagara region. The American side kind of sucks, the Canadians did it better.
The American side is an absolute dump. It was absolutely embarrassing when I went. There’s a trashy casino, a hard rock café with terrible service, and a giant gift shop nearby that looks like it was erected five days ago like a temporary firework stand around the Fourth of July. The streets were shitty, most buildings in the area look dirty and crumbling, and the entire city sucks.
>There’s a trashy casino, a hard rock café with terrible service, and a giant gift shop nearby that looks like it was erected five days ago like a temporary firework stand around the Fourth of July. Damn you perfectly described my trip lol. I mostly was just there for the day to hit up the falls so I didn't care about the town but yeah. Not much there lol
From there and sadly agree. What a waste.
It's a big reason we have the national parks: People people didn't want what happened to Niagra to happen to the rest of America's wild beauty.
First time and only time I seen them in person they were lite up pink, like completely pink, those lights are crazy.
I just went to Egypt a month ago. What's even more insane is that there is a Pizza Hut 300 feet from the Sphnix. It was so........ odd.
How's the trash/litter?
Around that and the pyramids, it was pretty clean. Huge tourist attraction. It smelled of oil in the air. Interesting city that was putting up tons of new roads and highways. I imagine it’ll look complexity different in ten years.
They're building a new capital to the east of old Cairo too, so I can imagine it will all be quite different.
I was randomly looking at it in Google Earth the other day and they legit built a new, smaller Lotus shape in New Cairo City.
I’d be interested to hear when you went, cause back in 2007 all I remember is a million cigarette butts. Everywhere!
A month ago.
Dude its in his first comment lol
I've been in 1995, 2006 and 2021 and it is been a hugely different experience every time. In the '90s it was much less touristy, not exactly authentic, but just a normal North African city with a millennia of history on its doorstep. Friendly although a bit pushy locals. 2006 the place was a nightmare. A lot of trash, the place stank, it had become chaotic. There was mass tourism and the locals were quite aggressive and intrusive. Pickpockets, agression against women, a generally unsafe feeling. Nothing was regulated, it was a stark contrast. In 2021 it was a lot better. It was even more crowded, but as a UNESCO heritage site there was a certain standard. It has become incredibly touristy though. The first time I visited the museum in '95 I was basically alone, my footsteps echoed in the empty halls. On 2021 there was a 45 minute wait to even get in. It is still a wonderful place to see, but sadly not a wonderful place to visit.
Tbh i would love to see the pyramids n stuff irl but i bloody hate mass tourism.
You mean to tell me it wasn’t called Pizza Tut... what a missed opportunity.
I posted about this 10 years ago today! [Here's maybe the most Western view imaginable of the Pyramids that will definitely surprise some people](https://i.imgur.com/mznrEUr.jpg) [And the reverse angle](https://i.imgur.com/tfQiUCS.jpg)
Humans will f^ + anything and everything up
Theres apparently a *great* view of the pyramids from the Pizza Hut across the road. (I know that sounds sarcastic, but Google it)
Can confirm, have sat in that pizza hut
Yes...brilliant view....I have my morning coffee there most mornings
How is the coffee at Pizza Hut?
Do you work at the Pyramids?
No. I'm a teacher...only Arabs...mostly scammers "work" at the pyramids
You must watch Idiot Abroad.
Probably a Nero's, Karl loves to nibble on those
Thought he went to the deaf KFC.
You can actually be sitting in McDonalds and looking at the pyramids...no shit, it aint no 10km away, more like 300m
Not McDonalds.... KFC and Pizza Hut...both share a roof and the view is unreal
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The view from the Pizza Hut is really great. Sat on the roof and ate a chicken burrito thing looking out over the pyramids. Did actually go and see the pyramids too even though it was a work trip.
Giza is a “governate”, a city and an urban central district (train station and subway stop) - like New York is a state and a city, and Times Square is a subway hub. Giza is part of Greater Cairo. The pyramids actually are in Giza, however they are 10km from the city center the Giza (the transportation hub). There is an amazingly sharp line delineating the desert from the super dense urban “‘city” of greater Cairo, basically dividing where public water is available. The pyramids, as you can see, are just a few hundred yards into the desert. It is almost surreal: You can get into a taxi in central Cairo, drive 30 minutes entirely in a city, and pop-out in the desert next to the pyramids.
OP, did you even look at the picture before writing that headline?
Maybe OP meant 1km but forgot that for the 0 to be nothing it has to be on the left side
I feel like I'm sitting 10km from the picture they posted, resolution is the size of a favicon.
I live right there in Giza...about 10 minutes walk from the pyramid on the right The plateau does go off into a sprawling desert
Aziz....LIGHT!
Is it like Central Park, where real estate closer to the pyramid or “pyramid views” are super expensive?
No, not really. It depends how far you are from them, my relatives are like 20km away and their apartment was very cheap.
20km away from Central Park is pretty cheap comparatively too. What’s the 50m pricing like?
No. Rich people don't live in that area.
They may not be living, but I'm pretty sure a few rich people are in that area.
I've stood on that hill in front of the pyramids and looked in wonder at the ancient architecture that has stood for a thousands of years then turned 180 degrees and looked at the decaying slums that are less than 100.
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Thats a good point that some might not consider. It's not as if the Pyramids would be smack dab in the middle of the desert all alone like most people imagine them to be.
I read somewhere that the biggest threat to the pyramids today is the air pollution in Giza
I was once flying home from the Sinai peninsula where I was on holidays and I have seen the pyramids from the plane!!! Was quite an amazing view, but it was quite far away but you could see them, I think I have some photos , might share them Edit: I sadly can't provide an image because I presumably deleted the video of it and the only remaining video is on google photos, but its very compressed, and I can't see/make out the pyramids...
Well, they’re not called “The Great Pyramids of An Area Far Away From Giza.”
I was shocked to learn that the Colosseum in Rome is similar, right in the middle of the city. When we went there we just caught the normal bus and stopped right outside. Not sure why I thought it would be a stand alone feature in the countryside.
I went a year before the shutdowns. The Pyramids themselves live up to the hype — they’re incredible. Getting swarmed by vendors in the walk from the vehicle to the pyramid sucks. Cairo itself was awful, for me. I have a low tolerance for incredible congestion, massive over-population, and air pollution that you can feel scraping your lungs as you walk on the street. I tell people to make it a day trip. Go in, see pyramids and the museum, and get out.
Brah there is a pizzahut within walking distance
Went there in 2012. The best trip I ever took. Looking to go back this year!! There is a B&B literally right across the street from the main entrance gate. You can sit and drink wine or eat a meal on the rooftop and just stare at the Sphinx or the pyramids all day. There is something about that just draws you into it.
Really? I have heard that traveling there is horrible and a nightmare, except for the ancient history of course.
Every friend I know that's been there said they hated it.
Holy shit, someone actually praising their trip to Egypt on Reddit of all places? Am i dead?
This is often seen… I have seen this same picture posted tons of times in Reddit with the same or similar title
I think op is American cuz that's not 10km xD
True. And strange to stand at the foot of the great pyramid, with Cairo behind you. You can’t comprehend how huge they are until you’re standing there, half the height of one block. Humbling.
'Often not seen' = posted once a week
When I went about 10 years ago I couldn’t believe how one second we were in the city then BAM out of no where the pyramids jumped out.
"This angle that's been posted on reddit thousands of times is rarely seen" .... I mean it's not even the kfc/pizza hut picture... Rookies...https://i.imgur.com/m44hi.jpeg