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Visit of Pyramids & Sphinx
After lunch, you will move to one of the seven wonders of the world, the great pyramid of Cheops! and other pyramids of the area - the pyramid of Chephren and the pyramid of Mycerinus. You will end your tour in Pyramids area after visiting Sphinx and its temple.

Despite their size, the precise number of pyramids in Egypt remains unknown. Pyramidal structures that were demolished or hidden under the sand are constantly being found, and Egyptologists now put their number at about 100. There are thought to be some 28 pyramid complexes dating from the third to the sixth dynasties, all standing along a narrow stretch of the desert from Abu Ruwash south to Meidum. No two of them, whether from their external appearance or their internal system, are alike.
The pyramids of Egypt can be also devided into geographical groups. Ten groups are at the ancient city of Memphis . Others are at Abu Ruwash, the Giza Plateau, Abu Sir, Saqqara, Dahshour (in which lie the two pyramids of Sneferu, Khufu's father and founder of the Fourth Dynasty) and finally Meidum, which probably also belonged to Sneferu although its construction began in the reign of his father, Huni. A further few pyramids are found in Upper Egypt .

There is more than one incident in which the sarcophagi of kings and queens were discovered inside their pyramids. The wooden sarcophagus of Menkaura of the Fouth Dynasty, was found in the third pyramid in the Giza Plateau with remains, presumably of the king, still in place. The cover bore the sentence "Osiris, the king of Lower and Upper Egypt, Menkaura, son of Nout and the descendant of Geb and his beloved, you shall have an eternal life." The mummy of Queen Ipwet, mother of Pepi I, was found in her burial chamber. The thieves did not waste time with opening the sarcophagus. They dug a hole to steal the contents but left her coffin intact inside a second wooden sarcophagus, her bracelet still on her right arm along with parts of her necklace. And while Queen Hetepheres's sarcophagus in a subsidiary pyramid at Giza was empty, the canopic jars containing her viscera were still in place among her intact funerary items.