Stones on top of stones,- for a princess in what used to be all dessert, where everything took place on horseback or camel and which is now a part of Cairo, a city where only the number of grains of sand in the Sahara exceeds the number of inhabitants.
The epitome of and containing the history of the 20th century – in the shadow of colossi whispering about a distant past – Truly a hotel to put an end to all hotels, as was the motto when it was constructed.
Let me just briefly point out that if you only like submissive service and unimaginative luxury without any sense of the richness in details – find a hotel in the centre of Cairo. Because, at the Mena House you should let your eyes and thoughts drift, towards a hotel that has housed more historical events and figures than a lot of other hotels, chandeliers, ornaments, portraits and paintings that cannot be insured, unique entertainment and several types of cuisine that encourage you to become more acquainted with them – and then the small additional feature that you can take a refreshing dip on a hot summer’s day, not in the shade of, but in the mere presence of the world’s most amazing structures – the pyramids.
You will not get any closer, the thought and feeling of them is like reading a book or experiencing a woman that you cannot forget and let go, they fill up your mind in all directions, strike you with awe-inspiring optical precision and mankind’s pursuit of eternal life like nothing else.
If you are wealthy enough and have a sense of aesthetics, history, grandiosity and experiences, take the palace room, or even better, the Churchill suite, where you can spend a whole day experiencing life around the pyramids, “the ones that time fears”, and if you are lucky and have a feel for it, you might be able to sense Churchill’s cigar.
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