The Pyramids

[overheadplan]

A friend at work has been to Egypt this last week and has told me that access to the Pyramids will be barred as of later this month for 30 years, apparently it will be viewing from set view points only. Is this corrrect?

[vehelpfulguy]

I have done a search round the internet and can find no evidence of this.

It seems there are over 100 pyramids covering a wide area (some very small and some almost just piles of rubble).

Some of these you cannot, of course, go inside.

Pyramids are closed now and again for a year or so for restoration but I can find no evidence of any being closed for 30 years.

Maybe there was one particulr pyramid (or group of pyramids) that were becoming damaged by people climbing on them so they have fenced them off and you can only see them from a distance (rather like they did with Stonehenge).

Mind you, I can find no reference to that either.

Maybe you need to ask on a specialist web site for visitors to Egypt.

[confusedpete]

I have done same as vehelpfulguy, and have come to the same conclusion,
i can't personaly see this being true, as very few people would consider egypt worth visiting without them, although the museums in Cairo and the Mohamad ali mosque are well worth the trip.

[munchie63]

I'd agree with the earlier answers.
i can understand certain pyramids being closed for renovation, and restricted entry at times, but closing all of them, even for one season would virtually kill the tourism overnight.

One call to the Egyptian embassy would find out for sure though