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This is pretty much exactly what I came to write. by VT2ND

Getting around Cairo is an adventure in and of itself. Taxis can be downright terrifying - fast speeds, no seatbelts. Oh, and good luck if you don't speak Arabic. Needed someone's help giving the taxi driver instructions every single time. And the trick about grabbing a card with your hotel's address on it? Doesn't work because most of the cabbies are illiterate.

But the stuff you'll see in Egypt are second to none. Absolutely exhausting trip, but still one of my all time favorites. Egyptian Museum is amazing and not to be missed. Giza is amazing, especially with the juxtaposition of the pyramids with the modern city right up against it. If you can, the trip inside one of the pyramids was really fun albeit a little claustrophobic. Really enjoyed the camel ride around the Giza plateau - great fun.

DB Cooper is completely right about getting harassed by merchants at all of the tourist sites. There is a "market" at the entrance of every single historic site that we referred to as "the gauntlet" where you had to dodge increasingly aggressive touts trying to sell you just about everything under the sun.

The river trip from Aswan to Luxor was amazing. Got to visit the Valley of the Kings, Karnak Temple, Aswan High Dam, among other temples/sites.

I strongly recommend tour groups with preplanned transportation just due to how difficult it is to get around the area.