Tourists have long been awed by Egypt's famed Giza Pyramids and irritated by having to fend off peddlers relentlessly offering camel rides and trinkets.
Tourists undergo a constant barrage from peddlers selling souvenir statues, T-shirts and other trinkets. Visitors are sometimes followed by men on camels selling rides or photos - and rarely taking no for an answer.
Young men even try to force their way into taxi cabs carrying foreigners toward the pyramids, looking to steer them to nearby horse stables for a ride around the site.
But the hustlers were gone Monday as Egypt started an elaborate project to modernize the area and make it friendlier to tourists. Security is also improving, with a 12-mile chain-link fence featuring cameras, alarms and motion detectors.
What a s igh of relief for tourists who were constantly bombarded and hassled by
vendors of all sorts, trying to grab whatever business they could.
We the tourists and travellers applaud the Egyptian authorities, for bringing back some sort of order and sanity for the madness that it was previously.
Now we can enjoy the splendours of these magnificent sites, that has passed the test of thousands of years and has defied modern structures with their toughness.
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