What the pyramids teach us: one has the best view when not standing directly in front of it. Though it is possible with the Chephren pyramid to make oneself a picture of the Cheops pyramid but the last resting-place of Chephren then cannot be taken as a whole.
Onsite the Chephren pyramid seems to be a bit larger than the one of his half-brother. But this is only the case since Chephren chose a natural heightening of the area of about ten metres for the construction of his pyramid.

Since we forgo the visitation of a dark, unadorned corridor in the inside of the pyramid we are already soon on our way to the Sphinx. After it had been covert a long period of time under the sand, today it takes centre stage of the pyramid-light-show. But you shouldn’t go to this occasion with a false attitude since after all there isn’t a great laser-show, probably with huge fireworks, too, offered. No, the long history of Egypt takes here the centre stage , told from the view of the Sphinx, which when we believe it has seen almost every great sovereign of the world, inchoate with the pharaohs to Caesar and Augustus, Napoleon up to the politicians of our time.

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