Saqqarah Travel Blogs

Saqqara or Sakkara is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, featuring the world's oldest standing step pyramid (29.871264° N 31.216381° E). It is located some 30 km south of modern-day Cairo and covers an area of around 7 km by 1.5 km.While Memphis was the capital of Ancient Egypt, Saqqara serv…

For me, visiting Saqqarah was amazing. Iv been fascinated by the ancient Egyptians and their architecture since I was little and now I was standing in front of the first pyramid prototype. I just remember thinking ‘ it IS real!’ When I touched it I felt like, I thought, 'im touching a stone tha…

This pyramid (3 of them, actually) is older than the more famous ones at Giza, but it is only about 20 minutes down the road...so easily done together. You can enter these, unlike the Giza pyramids. But like everything in Egypt (even the simplest of things), there is a charge. The Imhotep Museum at…

After we left Giza, we drove only a short distance to Saqqarah.  It is on this site that the very first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Zoser, was built.  It was designed and constructed by the architect Ihmotep, and was built with different tiers, sort of like a wedding cake.  There ar…

This pyramid (3 of them, actually) is older than the more famous ones at Giza, but it is only about 20 minutes down the road...so easily done together. You can enter these, unlike the Giza pyramids. But like everything in Egypt (even the simplest of things), there is a charge. The Imhotep Museum at…

with my family, a beautiful cruise along the Nile and eventually down to the great Temple of Abu Simbel add a week at Sharm el Sheik, where me made a very nice friend