Pizza Hut delivers to the Pyramids. It might sound funny, but it’s actually true. The image you see there isn’t Photoshopped. Giza, Egypt, has grown so great that it now encroaches on the location of the Great Pyramids, and that view you see is from the Pizza Hut that’s basically across the street. Apparently, the ancient monuments are shot from the west so as to give them the appearance of being out in the middle of the desert. They’re not. Google’s satellite map tells the whole story.
Is that kind of sad? Sure. But is it understandable? Totally. Towns grow towards their tourist traps, not away from them. I guarantee you Giza Hut makes a fortune off hungry American tourists and otherwise thirsty travelers who need a cold beverage and a hot slice of goat cheese and camelroni pie, or whatever they’ve got on the menu. I have no doubt I’d stop there, just for the amusement value. Someone’s gotta feed those Egyptologists!
Image: Scarlet Thread Photography
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