PYRAMIDSUNESCO World Heritage site

María Rincón Alejandra Amaya

EGYPTEgypt, country located on the continent of Africa is one of the tourist

destinations for travelers. The capital and the most important city is the Cairo.

Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos are the names of the three most imoportant pyramids of Egypt. They were built by order of the Pharaohs who hoped to reach the other world as "you deserve it“

Located in the Valley of the Kings, the pyramids of Egypt, dominate the desert landscape

KEOPS:Great Pyramid of Egypt known also as the great pyramid of Cheops was

chosen honorary wonder for being the oldest and the only one that still lingers from the wonders of the ancient world. Being the most famous and largest of all the pyramids of Egypt, considered one of the most impressive buildings of all history.

Are located in the outskirts of the Cairo-Egipto, to 12 kilometers of the city. The pyramids were declared heritage of humanity by the Unesco in 1979.

CHEPHREN

Is the second-tallest and second-largest of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza and the tomb of the Fourth-Dynasty pharaoh Khafre

This pyramid was built in a place that after a few years near this was cronstruída the Sphinx more famous of the world

MYKERINOS

The pyramid is located in the plateau of Giza, in them outside of the Cairo, where begins the desert. He is the youngest of the three famous pyramids.

It was part of the funerary complex together with the three pyramids of the Queens, a funerary temple, the Valley Temple and a processional Causeway linking both temples.

TOURISM:

The tourism in Egypt has decreased because the fear of them tourists to those attacks yihadistas that terrorize to all the people. Many of them inhabitants that lived of the tourists near the pyramids is have seen forced to move to another area for to have money and feed to your family.

Today you can't visit all pyramids of Egypt, and which can have the restricted number of tourists. The show is daunting and full of cultural content. He environment inside the pyramids is something stifling, due to the shortage of oxygen and it heavy of its atmosphere.

VIDEO

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjzYGWddvrM

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