Giza Pyramids Getting Fenced In
August 12, 2008
Good news for tourists to Egypt. From now on, a trip to the Giza’s Pyramids will be a more relaxed experience: no more hawkers relentlessly offering camel rides, T-shirts and pharaonic trinkets.
A 12-mile (20 km) fence, complete with infra-red sensors, security cameras and alarms, has been erected to create an exclusion zone around the three Giza pyramids and the Sphinx.
"It was a zoo. Now we are protecting both the tourists and the ancient monuments," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
Under the new scheme, tourists enter through a new brick entrance building and pass through several gates equipped with metal detectors and X-ray machines .
The fence, which reaches a height of 13ft (4 metres) at some points, is the first step in a project that begun seven years ago to modernise the 5,000-year-old site. A new lighting system, a cafeteria, and a visitors centre and bookshop will also be installed.
Picture: courtesy of Dr. Sabry Abd El Aziz /SCA
this is great......
Posted by: nino_mhr | October 01, 2008 at 03:23 PM