Salah Muhammad Noga Toursl, Cairo
Our trip was arranged by Salah Muhammad (recommended in Let's Go and Lonely Planet, aka www.first24hours.com, aka Noga Tours) and cost $20 a person for the day. Doing this daytrip independently is near-impossible. So, it was us, the guide, and a driver. The guide was relatively informed, but repeated a lot of information. He didn't bother taking us to the Bent Pyramid, leaving us with the wrong impression that it was a long walk (in fact we could have driven.) We got a view of it from The Red Pyramid. These pyramids are the world's oldest, and are smaller than those we would see at Giza. However, they are still worth the trip. Memphis is an "outdoor museum" with a couple of monuments, but doesn't take too long. As was pretty typical of our experiences in Egypt, every time we tried to take pictures, one of the locals would rush into the frame, and try to extract baksheesh out of us after for having had his picture taken.
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