Hobbling like an Egyptian

The kids were unimpressed about a 5.45 am wake up but we were so glad we did it and beat the other tour buses and heat to the pyramids.

It was awe-inspiring to see the great pyramids of Giza. They were the tallest structures in the world for 3000 years and the stones were formed to fit together precisely. The theory is the were built by building a road to each level all the way from the river Nile. The foundations of the pyramid are hard rock. The centre is a box made of hard granite. Millions of blocks for the outside were floated down the Nile with the tides on individual rafts. The pyramid was then covered in fine limestone

Team Curran managed to push mum in a wheelchair chair over the Sahara Desert sand, help her jump over fences, stones and crevices; and held her phone and crutches to touch a pyramid!

We saw three pyramids at Giza, the sphinx, the original step pyramid at Sakkara and some amazing carvings and paintings at the tomb of Teti (pronounced titty - got some giggles).

That evening we jumped on another plane to the city of Aswan and stayed in a hotel overlooking the Sahara desert.Read more