Pyramids in Giza Mikerins Pyramid (Menkaura) Kerdassa and Harraniyya
These two villages are not connected in any way with pyramids, but tourist groups quite often visit in them. КЕРДАССА it is placed approximately to the West from Imbab (but it is possible to get there on the minibus from Piramid Avenue connection from Shary Mansurey), the most part of scarfs, галабийя and shirts in Cairo, also carpets which are on sale on metres here becomes. Though here already there is no saturated trade, here quite often there come collectors of ethnic textiles, in particular clothes of bedouins and parandzhy (the best are on sale for hundred parts of dollars). In former times Kerdassa was also initial пт a camel way through the Libyan Desert to Libya.
Participants of excursions of page 241) by all means visit ХАРРАНИЙЯ, a place of the known Center of arts Vissa Vassef (once a day 10. 00-17. 00, 02/381-5746, wissa-wassef-arts. com), based 50 years ago Ramses Vissa Vassef, the architect who wished to keep rural crafts and better to make a situation with unemployment in rural areas (the centre learns kids to project and weave carpets), also has formed batic and ceramics offices. Under control of Vassef's widow and the first generation of his pupils pupils make beautiful gobelins which at present are on sale for тыщи dollars and which simulate across all Egypt. You can have a look, as they work (except a lunch break and Friday), and to admire a fine collection in a museum designed by Hasan Fatkhi, an architecture masterpiece from a brick. To get to the Center of arts, you can take a taxi or sit down on the minibus, to pass 4 km on the highway on Sakkara (the canal Marioteya, the western coast) from Piramid Avenue or to sit down on the bus No. 334 going from the terminal Abdel Munim Riyad and to leave at the village Harraniyya.
