You take your seat on the terrace facing the floodlit plateau as night falls and the show begins. Light sweeps across the Great Pyramid, its neighbors, and the Sphinx while a deep narrated soundtrack tells the story of the pharaohs who built them, the Sphinx voicing the tale. The monuments shift color and emerge from the dark one by one, a genuinely different sight from the daytime plateau. The seated show runs around 50 minutes; your driver waits to bring you back to your hotel afterward.