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Egypt straddles two continents, Asia and Africa, bordering Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, the Red Sea to the east, Palestine and Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north, with most of its territory located in northeastern Africa.

Only the Sinai Peninsula, east of the Suez Canal, is located in southwestern Asia, and although it has about 2,900 kilometers of coastline, it is also a typical desert country - 95% of the country's land area is desert. It is really a model of the integration of fire and water.

In 600 or 700 B.C., the Persians invaded Egypt, and they said that they were not allowed to speak Egyptian, only Persian. In 332 B.C., Alexander completely incorporated the entire Mediterranean region, including Asia Minor and North Africa, into his territory, so Egypt became a fertile land for Greece, and the Greeks said that there was no Egyptian language and you could only speak Greek.

As Rome gradually became a Mediterranean power and Egypt was occupied by the Romans, the language of ancient Rome became the official language of Egypt; Later, the Arabs invaded Egypt again, so the Egyptians switched to Arabic------ and each occupation was accompanied by fierce cultural collisions and confrontations.

It is believed that it is always the advanced civilization that will eventually defeat the backward civilization, but no matter who is defeated again and again, the battlefield will be frustrated for a long time, and no matter how strong the soft power is, it will gradually be lost, and the Egyptian language, which can only be used as an unofficial language, will slowly die.

Only a handful of temple priests remained to speak one of the dialects, Coptic, and when they faded from history, the former giant finally collapsed.

Kick up dust from the sky. Whose eyes blurred out. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were saddened to find that the most magnificent civilization in human history had lost its voice.

The first stop on the Egyptian journey of the Egyptian Crossing Line, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, is the capital Cairo.

In "One Thousand and One Nights", it is said: "He who has not seen Cairo has not seen the world, her land is gold, her Nile is a miracle, her women are like black-eyed saints in heaven, her house is a palace, her air is as soft as aloe vera wood, sweet and pleasant." How could this not be the case in Cairo. Because she is the mother of the world. ”

Pyramids, mummies, death spells, and countless treasures. Egypt is a lavish stage play spread out along the Nile River, staged thousands of years of birth, old age, sickness and death. Well, according to "One Thousand and One Nights", walk into Cairo. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo have seen the world.

I woke up at two o'clock in the middle of the night, turned upside down in bed, and was still not used to jet lag, and stayed up in a daze until I should have woken up naturally, and went out to hang out after eating the hotel's sumptuous buffet breakfast.

When I was a little in the history books, I kept talking about the four ancient civilizations, just like an old lady with small feet who kept talking about her past elegance. In this way, the pyramids on the banks of the Nile are deeply engraved in my mind. When I arrived in Cairo, I didn't say a word, but went straight to the pyramids, and I looked at the biggest one.

When they went out, they really felt that Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were already in a foreign land. Strong Muslim style. On the first day, the situation was not familiar, and the first taxi went to the Giza pyramids, which was only 30 Egyptian pounds, which was not expensive. There are also many buses near the northwest of Tahrir Square, which are not far from the north gate of the Giza Pyramids Scenic Area.

The level of driving of Chinese drivers is already very high, and the Egyptian taxis are even crazier. As soon as I got off the north gate of the Aal-Haram Scenic Area on Pyramid Road, I was stopped by enthusiastic Egyptians, saying that tourists must ride camels or mules and horses to enter the scenic spot.

Beat off a couple of guys who were pretending to be ticket sellers and go straight to the ticket office. Now the Gizapyra fan DS ticket has risen to 60 Egyptian pounds. The sky-high price of tickets in China is still quite cost-effective.

The weather is bad, and there is no wind on the flat ground to raise the loess. The tower cried out in a dark voice. The pyramid of Cheops at Giza Giza looms over the sand and dust, making it even more mysterious. Buy a ticket to enter the door, the security check at the door is still relatively strict, after all, in 93, a group of terrorists blew up the Golden Tower.

It is also customary for security inspectors here to ask Asian-faced tourists if they have wind oil essence. Fortunately, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were prepared, which was a small gift. The security check is like a treasure. Quite happy. thanked him repeatedly, and almost sent the submachine gun to Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, Khan.

Just approached the pyramid before the clouds fell and sighed, they were stopped by the hawkers, who had been on the battlefield for a long time and read countless people, and asked when they met: "Brother." Where's the fight? ", "From the Tang Dynasty in the East", "Ah, Huaguo Yunluo likes it, friend, this headscarf is for you", as he spoke, he took out a hard stuff from his shoulder and gave it to Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, brother knows that his hands are short.

The hawker turned to attack Xiaoqiang, who was burned by the fiery Sino-Egyptian friendship, knowing that it was a trick of the Middle Easterners, but still afraid of hurting the feelings of the Egyptian people, and stuffed the hawker with a bottle of magical Chinese style oil essence.

Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo approached the huge pyramid step by step, looking and stopping. The Pyramid of Khufu is 1,465 meters high, a bit bald over the years, and is now 1,365 meters high. The tower is one of the "Seven Wonders of Ancient World" built with 2.3 million stones ranging in size from 15 tons to 160 tons, and it took 100,000 blue-collar workers 30 years to complete.

For more than 4,000 years, before the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in Paris in 1889, the Great Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest building in the world. Let Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo think about the era more than 4,000 years ago, at that time, our ancestor Yao Shunyu was still letting go back and forth, and the ancient Egyptians had begun to centralize power.

Before he knew how to use wheels, he began to use the Nile River to transport stone to build shelves and stack towers. The creator of this legend is none other than Comrade Khufu, the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. It is impossible not to mention Khufu without mentioning his old son Sneffru snefe milk. This old man founded the Fourth Dynasty and pushed the royal power to its peak, and he had power and money in his hands.

began to suffer from gains and losses, racked his brains to live for another 500 years, and frantically built a pyramid, intending to open up the two veins of heaven and earth. The old man was infinitely creative and changed the stepped pyramid of the previous dynasty, and built the Pyramid of Medum near the Fayum Oasis al-Fa Temptation A private s, and the huge weight made the Pyramid of Medum finally collapse.

Snifrou soon continued his efforts at Dahshur, a dozen kilometers south of Saqqara, and began to pile up rocks upwards at an angle of 54 degrees, and found that it was likely to be too high and unstable if he continued halfway through, so he corrected the angle of inclination to 43 degrees. Finally, a curved pyramid of 105 meters high was built, Bentpyra Mid D.

Slipping straight into a bend, the old man looked unhappy, and while there was still a hot breath, he hurried to build another pyramid two or three kilometers away. The conservative 43-degree approach resulted in the construction of the 105-meter-high Red Pyramid Redpyra. Perfectionists finalized this form of construction.

If there is a father, there must be a son, and the son Khufu is even more green than blue, and he has made such a big thing for himself. Miraculously, there is no mummy of him in this, not even Aunt Mu.

Two centuries earlier, visitors could climb to the top of the tower and sit on the spire with a cool breeze blowing, drinking Turkish coffee from their servants and pointing out the bustling city of Cairo at their feet. Yunluo yearns for the rivers and lakes of that steam engine era, and now Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo can only stop at the entrance height of the passage leading to the interior of the mausoleum.

At the beginning of the eighth century, the Abbasid ruler Caliph al-Mamun al-Mamun coveted the treasures in the tomb and chiseled through the hole in the burning belt, and finally returned empty-handed. It was only in the eighties of the last century that it began to open to the outside world. Limited daily availability. The passage of the tomb is so narrow that visitors have to grovel and enter it, eventually entering the Khufu funeral chamber, which is empty and empty.

Another downward legend is that the passage leading to the queen's burial chamber was not open. With a million boulders above their heads keeping the bright chamber claustrophobic, and despite the powerful exhaust equipment, the air was filthy, and thinking of the curse of the legendary vicious pharaoh made Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo leave in fear.

Out of the burial chamber. Wandering around the pyramids, an Egyptian old man went straight to Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. "Second master, please you" pulled Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo and ran to his camel, and didn't say what to ask Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo to do, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo knew that there were tigers in the mountains and pretended to be crazy and stupid and favored Hushan.

In broad daylight, an old man can do what to the two old men of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. The old man quickly conjured two turbans from behind him, wrapped them around the heads of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, and then lowered the camel and hugged Yunluo and the two of them. Very sophisticated, he picked up a suitable angle in the distance to take pictures of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo.

Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo also cooperated and giggled all the way. Po color of post-90s rock-paper-scissors. After tossing, he said to the old man, "Uncle, it's not too early, let's go home", "Okay, give the money first." A total of sixty US dollars", the old man's conscience was greatly broken, "Isn't it free" Let's pretend to be stupid to the end.

"The photo is free, and the camel ride is charged", "Okay, a total of five dollars, come down first and then give the money". "No, sixty will give the money first and then come down", raising the bar with chickens laying eggs and laying chickens. After arguing for a long time, Yunluo put Yunluo down first, Yunluo said, "This buddy is going home with you, you can keep it, go first" The old man looked at Yunluo with a smile and smiled.

Xiaoqiang turned over a harrier and landed steadily on the ground from the camel, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo brothers have been climbing, ice climbing, skiing, and mountaineering for so many years, and they can't be too low-key, let him see Ling Bo Weibu Huaguo Kung Fu, the old man was dumbfounded, and Yunluo patted him with five beautiful knives to comfort him, "Egypt likes it very much!" ”

The old camel on the side was loyal to the lord, and grinned at Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo bared their teeth and foamed at the mouth.

The two deep pits to the east of Khufu are the Sun Boat Pit, and the original site to the south is the Solar Boat Museum, designed by an Italian in 1982.

To the south of Khufu there is also the pyramid of his youngest son Khephren, which is 136 high, and the small pyramid of the Great Pyramid is gradually declining.

Yunluo couldn't help the little literary and artistic feelings that had not yet been extinguished, grabbed a handful of thousand-year-old sand at the foot of the pyramid of Menkaura, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and carried it in his arms, hoping that it would also carry the soul of ancient Egypt here. Walking along the scenic road to the south, I really can't go to the location where you can take family photos of three generations of grandparents.

The Sphinx Thesphinx is located near the east gate of the scenic area, 22 meters high and 57 meters long, and one of the statue's ears is 2 meters high. The entire statue is carved from a natural rock except for the lion's claw. The Sphinx has been there for more than 4,000 years, faithfully guarding the Great Pyramid.

It was crowded with tourists from all over the world, and there were groups of children who came to take history lessons, enthusiastically greeting Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. The Sphinx, which is said to be based on Khafre, was not as large as it could have been, and it was so badly corroded that the sphinx, who had no nose, stared ahead.

The focus is on the distance, and Egyptian nationalists indiscriminately blame Napoleon for this, completely ignoring the tourist benefits of the Egyptian people from the rise of "Egyptology" with the scholars he brought with him.

Standing in the wilderness and looking back at the pyramids, in the golden sunset, the golden desert, and the ancient pyramids, it seems to be made of pure gold. Looking from afar, the sky and the earth, yellow and clear, golden, a dazzling hue, what an open and majestic picture!

That charming gold simply melts you into a magical realm, makes you full of heroic feelings, causes boundless reverie, and can't help but produce a kind of nostalgic meditation, making you feel as if you are in the prosperous era of ancient Egypt in the past, producing all kinds of wonderful illusions and associations.

When I woke up, everything was gone, only the pyramids still stood in the setting sun, and in front of Yunluo was a realistic and equally confusing world.

The east gate of the scenic spot is a village called Nazletas-Samaan, most of the people in this village make a living by renting horses and camels, the management here does not seem to be very strict, you can enter for free everywhere, you can rent an Arabian horse here, and experience the feeling of the Arabian Lawrence prancing horse.

After a day of physical and mental exhaustion, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo didn't want to be as tired as the tour group, so they took a taxi home. Bought a beef shawarma shaa for dinner at a small shop near the hotel, a bit like a sandwich. (To be continued.)

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