Before visiting the pyramids we spent the morning at the Egyptian Museum, which is a late 19th Century museum stuffed to the gills with more mind-blowing antiquities than you can believe.

In a whirlwind tour with our guide, we all all the greatest hits.  Rameses, Hatshepsut, Tutankamen, the pet mummies, and all the other fascinating things that are now jumbled in my brain.  We could easily have spent weeks here and only scratched the surface.