Cirque Du Soleil troupe visits Giza's pyramids

GIZA, Egypt, Sept 24 (MENA) - The biggest and most celebrated Cirque show in the world "Cirque Du Soleil" visited the Giza Pyramids within their current visit to Egypt.

In statements on Tuesday, Director of the Giza Pyramids area Ashraf Mohey Eddin said that he accompanied the troupe in a tour of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Pyramids plateau.

During their tour, members of the troupe expressed their admiration of the greatness of the Egyptian Pyramids and the way they were built.

Cirque Du Soleil, or the "Sun Circus" in English, is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was originally founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in July 1984, by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. It essentially exploded through the 1990s and 2000s, expanding from one single show to 19 shows in over 271 cities on every continent except Antarctica.