About half an hour´s drive south of Cairo is the pyramid area of Dahshur. Neither this site sees a lot of visitors, everyone wants to see the famous Giza Plateau and forget there are other interesting places, so we have lots of room.

We walk around the Bent Pyramid, accompanied the the eternal tourist police. I don´t know what they fear might happen to us out here in the desert. We can see for miles and there is no one around. Or do they fear we will snatch a few building blocks and take away? The wind is strong and the sky is cloudy, it feels quite pequliar after having spent two weeks in total sun. Walking around the whole of the pyramid is actually a bit strainful in the hard wind. We get sand everywhere, teeth, shoes, pockets.... I find myself wishing we were back in sunny, warm Luxor.

There is a good view of the Meidum pyramid from here, and on the way we passed Abusir with its three pyramids visible from the car. There is good reason to believe the last discovery isn´t done by far on this wide strethed necropolis which once served the city of MenNefer (Memphis) for a couple of thousand years.

Our young guide rattles off his story, I listen with half an ear. He is however wrong when he calls the satellite pyramid just south of the Bent pyramid, for the tomb of Hetepheres I, wife of Sneferu. He´s running a story of it being a mystery since her tomb treasures (which were found 1925 at Giza and which are kept in the Cairo Museum, ) would have been too large to fit in this small pyramid. I shake my head secretly and refrain from making an issue of it. However, it makes you wonder what other "stories" people are being told....

Across a very stoney and bumpy desert road we are brought back to the Red Pyramid, which is beautifully proportioned and just that - a pyramid. This one is possible to enter, if you climb halfway up its side but we refrain.