Chapter 449, the tip of the iceberg
In fact, just by looking at the ingredients, you can know what the dish tastes like, and it is already very good to be able to eat such great pasta in Egypt, and it seems that Egyptian food is not as embarrassing as I imagined.
After eating, I went back the way I came.
I went back to the hotel and took a shower, and lay on the bed before eight o'clock.
There is definitely no good sleep in bed on the plane, and the room in this hotel is also very comfortable, Ye Kai has not lived in a high-end hotel for a long time, and he misses the feeling of living in a hotel.
However, a night in such a hotel is enough to rent an apartment for a month.
The consumption in Egypt is actually okay, Ye Kai went out for a walk and found that it was similar to the second-tier cities in China, and if you want to eat well, a meal may cost 40-100 Egyptian list, that is, 100 to 200 yuan in Huaxia currency.
But if you want to eat something cheap, you can eat it for 10-30 Egyptian pounds.
Cairo has a lot of poor people, unlike the Nordic countries, where you won't even find a single beggar on the streets, and the excellent welfare system allows you to live a good life without having to go to work and playing games at home every day.
So the consumption in Northern Europe is high, and if Cairo consumes the same as in Europe, too many poor people will have to starve to death.
I slept until seven o'clock the next morning, and because I slept for too long, Ye Kai had no strength when he got up, and even wanted to lie back and sleep for a while.
After washing my face, feeling a little more refreshed, I took the elevator to the restaurant for breakfast.
There are still a lot of people in the hotel, and many languages can be heard on the restaurant floor, but most of them are very good, there is no loud noise, and there are no tour groups.
If the tour group can stay in such a hotel, then Ye Kai also wants to participate.
The breakfast is a buffet with unlimited amounts, and Ye Kai is happiest to see fruits here, and he first took a red apple before he began to look for other dishes.
Fried bananas, carrots, something like luncheon meat, salt-baked tomatoes, some kind of grease mixed with rice.
The smell of these things...... Indescribable.
Among them, salt-baked tomatoes also sound like a dark dish, but compared to other things, it is a kind of food that saves Ye Kai's life, and after eating the two thin tomatoes, Ye Kai can only look at the food in a daze.
With a sigh, Ye Kai recorded a circle of friends.
First pat the dishes on the table, and then speak to yourself:
"I was wrong, I thought that I would not be afraid of any kind of 'food' if I could eat stinky tofu, snail noodles, and even dare to challenge durian, but I was really wrong...... You see, it's breakfast in a five-star hotel in Egypt. ”
But after recording the video, I still have to endure the situation of starvation, and these things are really unbearable.
You can't imagine the taste just by looking at it, and you can't find it until you eat it...... It turns out that the Egyptians ate this kind of thing, vomit!
The last Egyptian in a white robe pointed out a clear way to Ye Kai and recommended a kind of dough cake called 'Ai Shi', which was dry and tasteless, but finally ate it in his stomach.
The girl at the front desk downstairs was right, and sure enough, Egyptian things......
Forget it, get ready to head out to see the pyramids.
The road in Cairo has always been in poor condition, but the road to the pyramids is well repaired, playing with the mobile phone all the way, chatting with friends, and when the car stops, I find that there is already a yellow sand around me, and a few camels have appeared around me.
When I looked up, the pyramid was already in sight.
There were three large ones, several smaller ones, and the sphinx statue with a human face and a sphinx, all of which were pure brownish yellow, with no extra color except for human clothes.
Only the sunlight shines down, outlining the yellowish area with layers of light and dark rhythm.
Get off the bus and buy tickets to get close to the pyramids.
The bricks of the pyramid are not small bricks like the one used to build a house, but large square bricks, stacked layer by layer, which became a symbol of ancient Egypt thousands or even thousands of years ago.
That's the miracle.
Ye Kai stood in front of the largest pyramid of Khufu, and the feeling in his heart was no worse than when he saw the Great Wall, these are real miracles in human history, and miracles are beyond the environment.
At this moment, Ye Kai even forgot what Cairo was like, and what the traffic and food were like here.
No matter how backward Cairo is, the pyramid is a pyramid, and people forget everything at first sight, forget Cairo, forget the desert, forget the country, forget the race, and only feel that time and space are in these pyramids.
Taking a few steps back, an Egyptian with a camel came up and said in English: "Hello, do you want to take pictures on a camel? ”
Ye Kai smiled and asked, "You don't need money to take pictures, but you need money to ride a camel, right?"
The man's smiling face froze for a moment, and then he nodded naturally, "Yes, it only costs five dollars to ride a camel,"
"Thank you so much, but I don't need ......"
Of course, Ye Kai wanted to ride a camel, but he didn't take pictures by camel, after coming to Cairo, Ye Kai wanted to go to the desert to have a look, and it might cost less than five dollars to ride a camel in the desert.
And it's a ride that can walk, not just for taking pictures.
However, there is no difference between the attractions in this foreign country and the domestic one, as long as you can make money, such hawkers will be found anywhere, and people who come out to travel will not be fooled as long as they pay a little attention or have been deceived more times.
This kind of operation is mainly to pit Europeans and Americans, who in our country doesn't know this kind of routine?
In fact, to be honest, the Egyptian pyramids are not as good as any scenic spot in China in terms of ornamentation, he is just a very tall mound, and the sphinx is also a very simple stone carving.
But why did Ye Kai feel shocked? Mainly because he thought about the completion of the pyramid.
Archaeologists have concluded that the pyramid was built more than 4,700 years ago, and that it would take 100,000 craftsmen to build the pyramid of Khufu for 30 years, based on the amount of simple labor.
But this is only a very stupid approach, without taking into account a series of insurmountable problems.
For example, what tools do these huge stones rely on to transport them? How can they be moved? How much national strength does it take to support the expenditure of 100,000 craftsmen for 30 years? And how large a population base does this national strength need to pave the way?
So, think about it, 5,000 years ago, what was the total population of Egypt, and what was the total population of the earth?
Thinking about the pyramid in this way is really very mysterious, he is not like the inheritance of Huaxia, and the meaning of hieroglyphs can be known through the evolution of words.
The ancient Egyptian texts are still not well understood.
He could have entered the inside of the pyramid, but Ye Kai heard from the tour guide that all the things inside had been stolen by tomb robbers, and there was an empty tomb inside, so he had no interest in entering.
Standing in front of the pyramid, Ye Kai felt not only the shock, but also the mystery that he didn't know anything about.
The history of mankind is a very solemn and huge topic, and it is far from being able to be interpreted at will, and the most questioned is the civilization of ancient Egypt.
Don't look at the fact that science and technology are so developed now, but the history that has really been studied is only the tip of the iceberg.