In January of 2002, I spent 10 days in Cairo, Egypt.  What a wondrous place!  

Islam Ibrahim, an excellent driver.  If you are going to Cairo, call him, and tell him Jon Newstrom sent you.  +20 (0) 10153 4387.  In Cairo, drop the +20 and use the 0, Internationally drop the (0).

One has to visit the Pyramids when in Egypt, and either on a camel or a horse.  And like everyone else who has ever visited Giza in the last few hundred years you will be ripped off.  Paying too much for this and that.  The one honest part of the trip was Islam (above).