Results tagged “Egypt”

Hi people! I'm in Egypt now - land of the pharaohs, tombs, temples and pyramids. Egypt is a really cool place and I learned so much while I was here.

We were on a National Geographic Expedition tour, cool huh? We had the best guide ever. His name is Aki and he knew everything there is to know about Egypt. He made learning so much fun and told us lots of stories about the pharaohs and ancient Egyptian gods.

One of the first things we did was go to the three great pyramids in Giza. We took lots of pictures and looked at how huge the boulders were that they used to build the pyramids. Each of the 3,000,000 rocks were bigger than me!

Hello everyone. For this post, we start out in the city of Cairo in Egypt. This is where we met up with a National Geographic Expedition and were introduced to our guide, Aki, who showed us around Egypt. He was great and taught me so much about ancient Egypt. My mom was happy about this because ancient Egypt is something the sixth graders at my school plan to study this year.

First, we traveled over to the city of Giza, where the great pyramids are found. This city is built right up to the edge of the desert. The second you enter the desert, it is just nothingness for miles, with the exception of the pyramids. The closer you get to them, the smaller you feel. The first pyramid we went to was built for the pharaoh Cheops and it was HUGE - the largest of all the pyramids. There are three big pyramids here and in order to get a really good view of all of them together, we went for a camel ride on the sand dunes.