If you have ever had the luck to travel around Egypt, you certainly know that this country is a lot worth to visit. It has truly many temples, museums, activities to do under the hot sunlight and the warm breeze during its daytime.
Once year ago I was there with a good friend of mine for a week, and we could enjoy the whole trip since its beginning until the end, a non-stop "race" starting in the south, Abu Symbel, then Aswan, going up to north, passing through Luxor and El Cairo among other cities.
Egypt is full of temples everywhere and most of them remain in quite good condition, which makes you feel like living thousands of years ago. Their culture and devotation towards their gods and pharaons was really amazing and they did create so many well known statues and temples to honour them.
Temples like Ramses, Isis and Horus are very well known and perfectly drawn with lots of details on their walls, to keep respect and history on how great they were at that time.
Three of the most famous architectural constructions are without doubt the pyramids of Micerinos, Kefren and Keops. Each of them is astonishing and can be seen from quite far away distance all clearly, since their height and shape is really big.
Scientists calculate that it took over 2.300.000 stone blocks to build up the Keops pyramid. Each block could weight an average of 2 tones, but some of them could weight even more, reaching up to 60 tones each, especially on their base. They have estimated that the pyramid was also originally fully covered by 27.000 white sand blocks which were mostly taken away by a big earthquake at the beginning of the 14th century. Nowadays, only the top of Keops pyramid is still covered.
One fact that seems not obvious at the beginning is that, the pyramids do not have four sides, but eight. Each side splits into two because they are built starting from both edges at the same time, and bit by bit going inside to the center (not drawing a straight line from one edge to another) to finally meet up at the center of the side.
Only the base of the pyramid is perfectly squared. From the second level and above, egyptians built up the pyramid splitting bit by bit the original four sides into eight.
Therefore, this effect cannot be really appreciated from far away but only if you have a closer look at the pyramid.
Not only this, but going into the pyramid to see what is inside its quite an adventure. The corridors are narrow, and you descend around 14 meters bending your back, your knees and your whole body!
Egyptians really took care on how to protect and avoid robberies on the tombs and treasures they had been acumulating, in such smart ways.
Since I was kid I used to like Egypt and the trip I did with my friend was very enjoyable, even under such a hot weather!
When you do look at the pyramids and see the blue sky surrounding its top, and the endless desert in which they are placed, you can really feel how the time has passed since then until nowadays.
Every single block will remain there for years even after generations. It is simply great.
If you do look around, you will realize that the desert is not only on the ground, but also the sky is empty, like if time had stopped many centuries ago.
You can just imagine that if the bus wouldn't have taken you that far from the city to the pyramids, you would most probably loose the way in the middle of the desert, because there is no possibility to even go back looking at the wide, blue sky. Everything looks just the same. And you would feel lost so easily.
These days for me aren't easy. It is like if I were in the middle of the desert, staring at bright monuments that could mean good choices in life. Either monument I decide to get in and explore what treasure is hidden inside, means a choice I can make and I know once I move in I may find a very valuable treasure which can fullfill part of me.
I do not know exactly which pyramid I should get in to explore, even I do know either way will bring me something good. But the choice is not easy. I am afraid to be trapped or choose the wrong one.
When I look at the pyramids as a choice to explore, it could look scary to get in. In fact I am. And when I am, I tend to isolate myself, try to think about it twice before making a choice.
In this silence, I do build up unconsciously a wall that protects me from any noise in order to feel peaceful, so that I can think properly.
The same peace someone would feel being into the pyramid discovering what is inside. I keep quiet then, I keep calm. But trapped at the same time.
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
This is how I behave sometimes, when I am confused or when I am angry.
And this is how I feel now. Confused. Trapped in choices, isolated of the world, expecting some light to help my way out and finally do break these walls.
Time will tell. That's the only truth I know. So far.
