Day 3: Dahshur, Saqqara and Memphis Egyptian Adventure

After consulted some Tripadviser experience and we decided to stick to Dahshur, Saqqara and Memphis and we can focus the majority of the pyramids heritage and it may be the wise decision as well to have a more relax day tour.

We start off the journey with Saqqara where the journey is just about 30 minutes from Giza hotels. We visited the Steps pyramids of Djoser. The entrance tickets for Saqqara and Dahshur is included the climb to the tomb.

It is a great experience to climb to the tomb where we miss the Giza plateau pyramids.

This is Steps Pyramids.

Then we continue our journey to the next pyramids at Dahshur where the famous Red & Bent Pyramid located.

This is the Red Pyramids.

This Bent pyramids is longer and deeper than the Red pyramids like 4 times.

It took a while to climb down the tomb and then there are a high staircase to climb up to the top to experience the whole pyramids.

It is a great experience to have climb both Red and Bent pyramids even thou it is empty inside but it is consider an Egyptian adventure.

We end our tour at Memphis for a little museum before going...

for a Egyptian local cuisine and then returning back to the Giza hotel.






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Day 2: Ancient wonder of the world Giza Pyramids

We started our day early with breakfast at 8am then we continue our self-exploring to the Giza plateau with some difficulty at the beginning even thou the entrance is just next to the hotel

but there are so many locals queuing up and then locals trying to help tourist get in easily and demanded a high tips which we need to be more alerts and careful.

Once we get in then we stroll slowly towards the sphinx and took many photos with the famous Egyptian sphinx which show the face of Egypt pharaoh and to us it is like the majestic lion guarding the pyramids.

After the sphinx (number 5) then we walk slowly up to the pyramids of Khafre (number 1). From Khafre then we walk across the little road and about 200meters to the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Khufu (number 6).

We didn’t brought the tickets to go into the tombs as we missed this at the tickets counter and there are no selling counter around the pyramids.

BTW we chat with some of the tourist on the tickets and they advise that we may skip it as there are nothing inside the pyramids as the whole tomb is already excavated and now at the Egyptian museum.

Anyway to avoid further disappointment we engage a horse cart to go around the pyramids and..

also took an amazing awesome pyramids panoramic view from a best location far at the desert which can reach by camel or horse cart.

We spend almosta full day at the Giza plateau by walking down slowly towards the entrance and also took some sunset photos of sphinx before ending our tour self-exploration at a local KFC.



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An Adventure to Egypt : Day 1 arrival to Cairo

Our trip started with Air Arabia early in the morning on Monday from KLIA and reached Sharjat around 7am and then transit at 1pm afternoon and reached Cairo airport around 3pm.


Once we reached Cairo and we arranged a free pick up from Pyramids Valley Boutique Hotels located at Giza just next to the Giza Pyramids. We reached the hotel almost 5:30pm and we missed the sunset after the check in process. But it is a really great experience staying next to the pyramids even thou the area isn’t pleasant as there are many locals not sincere and trying to scam tourist.

The room is average as it is a reasonable hotel next to the pyramids and the people were not so friendly but that didn’t spoilt our trip.





We have our first meal dinner at the hotel café which we can see the view of the pyramids at night which is so awesome. This is our first great trip in an African countries.

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Day 11: Farewell Kunming & Tibet

Final day supposed to have a great plan to Dragon gate but it was raining like cat and dog in the morning and I decided to stay back and just visit a nice temple near the guesthouse called Yuantong Zen Buddhist Temple passing through Green Lake Garden.

Then went back guesthouse to dress up and go straight to the airport after lunch near the station. It is a nice feeling to go back Malaysia with AirAsia and it feel so warmth.

Day 10: Kunming day tour to Shilin Karst Stone Forest

After a good rest and I continue with my planning to Shilin for another Unesco world heritage site of Karst stone at Kunming. We starting with a little walk to the train station and taking to the last station where the Eastern Station located where we can take a direct bus to Shilin and it is a tourist bus. Everyone on the bus is having the same objectives. The bus go direct to the Shilin Karst Stone entrance. I am so lucky that the rain come chasing me and I am stuck at the bus station and force to buy an umbrella to continue my visit at the attraction.

There are few section of the karst stone, where I walk straight to the stone forest where there are a peak viewpoint to view the whole area of the karst stone then before walk to the next section of the karst stone. There are also buggy to fetch us around to have a glimpse of the whole karst stone at other site. It is a huge big site to enjoy the karst stone with various shape and story but since it is raining and tiring so I decide to have a short visit and then straight to the bus station to have a crispy duck rice before departing back to Kunming.


Once reach back Kunming then I took the train and stop at Donfeng Square Line 2 to visit Flower & Birds Market at Jingxing Road and Jinbi Square (The Golden Horse and Jade Rooster Archway). I call it a day after some Kunming walking as I am really tire after the whole Tibet trip.


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Day 9: Journey to Kunming

Today is the final day at Lhasa as am departing at Lhasa airport later evening and just having a relax morning around Lhasa and walking around Johkang Temple for a coffee and some souvenir before departing to Kunming for my next destination.

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The airport transfer was organise at 2pm as we can have a nice lunch next to the hotel while waiting for the transfer. Once reach the airport and this round the China Eastern flight to Kunming going smoothly without any changes but my newly travel mates from Germany got flight delay and seem change to next morning and I feel he will have some problem since there are flight transfer the next day.


Reaching Kunming at night isn’t a good idea anyway as I am trying to take public transport to the guesthouse for a more budget option. But reaching the last bus station at a rainy days at night is really bad as I am disoriented and I do not have a map and taxi is not picking up and I have to based on my google map memory to walk to the guesthouse. Lucky I still speak some mandarin and manage to reach at 11pm. Kunming weather during September is really different from Tibet as it is raining most of the time comparing to Tibet beautiful weather.


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Day 8: Potala Palace & Johkang Temple

The final day at Lhasa is the main highlight of the 2 main heritage site of Tibet where it supposed to visit on the second day but we change schedule because to suit another group for the Everest trip. So we meet up at 9am and took a tricycle to the Potala Palace entrance where we start to witness the huge china crowd at Potala Palace as there are many local tourist group queue up at the entrance to wait to enter. This is the real queue in China where we did not experience at Everest and also other monastery outside of Lhasa. 1

Potala Palace is a real grand monastery of Tibet and it is an icon of Lhasa and Tibet. We slowly enter the palace from the ground and slowly climb up the palace through the stairs and slope. The maintenance of the palace is maintain using natural resources e.g. the entrance blanket are made of Yak hair and the paint is using other agriculture products, such as milk, sugar, rock sugar, honey, brown sugar and so on. In the deployment of coatings, the staff add mineral raw materials in proportion of red and yellow. At the same time, adding saffron can remove the smell, which is recorded in the Buddhist scriptures.Adding sugar is to make the coating more sticky, easier to attach, but not easy to fall off. This is what make Potala Palace a beautiful world heritage site that you must visit and witness yourself.

After Potala Palace we went back to the hotel for a rest and lunch before meeting up at 3pm to proceed visit of Johkang Temple. This is another interesting heritage site where there are active buddhsim pilgrimage at this temple. Locals walking round the temple where the statue of Jowo Sakyamuni, Tibet's most holy relic, resides. This is a pilgrimage every Tibetan Buddhist aspires to make. Interesting site to walk around round clockwise with the locals with surrounding of locals souvenir and café places near Johkang Temple.

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