So after I came down from the roof it was time to head over to the sound and light show. I was pretty tired by now, but I’d had my expectations suitable lowered by my guide book and other travellers. But low enough for guys in Egyptian headdresses playing bagpipes badly? Tough call. But it happened, and it happened for nearly half an hour while they waited for it to get dark enough to begin the show. I’m afraid I was too overwhelmed by WTF to get any photos of that dismal performance.
The light show however when it started was a little more impressive.
A pretty tough environment for photography as the lights changed pretty quickly and also the plethora of media with very bright camera lights filming the crowd to show people watching the light show before they turned the lights off for Earth Hour. My guess is that total power consumption for the evening was probably up, but that the symbolic gesture got out there.
The moon sitting directly over Khafre’s Pyramid added to the spectacle.
There was also a bit of story-telling with green light around the place.
More lit pyramids
And finally, this is what it looked like as we were being herded out before the lights went off for Earth Hour.
Nothing to do after this but find and wake up the driver and doze off while he drove me back to the hotel.