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One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and a star attraction in Egypt, the pyramids of Giza offer a completely different experience at night, when lasers, lights, and visual projections bring their history to life. Here’s how to visit the pyramids after dark.
The sound and light show at Giza takes place every night for 55 minutes by the Great Sphinx of king Kephren, it is a laser show with history narration of your own language. Ask your local tour guide about the starting time of the sound and light show of your language and he would be the most pleased to arrange a pick up for you and transfer to see the show. However, you can buy it in advance and get details from us online!
Enjoy a 5.1 surround sound with light and music extravaganza at the Giza pyramids and Sphinx.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and a star attraction in Egypt, the pyramids of Giza offer a completely different experience at night, when lasers, lights, and visual projections bring their history to life. Here’s how to visit the pyramids after dark.
The sound and light show at Giza takes place every night for 55 minutes by the Great Sphinx of king Kephren, it is a laser show with history narration of your own language. Ask your local tour guide about the starting time of the sound and light show of your language and he would be the most pleased to arrange a pick up for you and transfer to see the show. However, you can buy it in advance and get details from us online!
Enjoy a 5.1 surround sound with light and music extravaganza at the Giza pyramids and Sphinx.
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Stop At: Sound & Light Egypt, Sphinx Square, Giza 00202 Egypt
Sound and light show is a form of nighttime entertainment that is usually presented in an outdoor venue of historic significance.
Special lighting effects are projected onto the façade of a building or ruin and synchronized with recorded or live narration and music to dramatize the history of the place. The invention of the concept is credited to Paul Robert-Houdin, who was the curator of the Château de Chambord in France, which hosted the world’s first son et lumière in 1952. Another was established in the early 1960s at the site of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
This nighttime medium naturally lends itself to ecclesiastical buildings, stately homes, and ruins,[citation needed] and has rapidly become very popular in France where about 50 annual productions take place, principally in the Loire Valley, at the Palace of Versailles and at Les Invalides in Paris.
The format usually involves no active participation by actors but a recorded narrative of the history of the building concerned by one or a cast of voices. To this is added music or sound effects as appropriate, all of which is synchronized to lighting and/or projection effects which provide the visual dimension. Pyrotechnic effects are occasionally included for added spectacle.
A relatively recent variation is that, rather than the music and narration coming through a concert-like sound system, they may use headsets, such as in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s “Lights of Liberty”. This allows an audience to move through a historic district as the show proceeds.
Duration: 1 hour
