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[quote=Anonymous]I think that the odds are you would be ok if you did a strictly fly in trip, see the pyramids and visit the Egyptian museum and then flew out the next day. Bit of a shame as there are many wonderful glorious historic mosques and buildings in Cairo that merit exploring, but the security situation is definitely iffy. I consider myself pretty well-travelled in a range of safety situations and right now I'd be leery of going to Egypt, unfortunately.

By the way, the Giza pyramids were somewhat of a letdown when I saw them for the first time. I loved seeing the other pyramids further outside Cairo, but the Giza ones are now so familiar an image that when you see them it's sort of disappointing when you realize they're just massive blocks of, well, blocks. The scale must have been impressive in the past but in these days the size and scale of the pyramids are hardly awe-inspiring, and what you don't see in the pictures is that Cairo is literally flush against the pyramids, which somewhat spoils the effect.

The other pyramids, the temples along the Nile and in Luxor, were much more mesmerizing.  The Red Pyramid at Dashur, about a hour south of Cairo, was my favorite because you really did have a sense of what the Giza pyramids must have been like the past, these massive monuments rising out of the desert, alone in their splendors with no nearby city to ruin the effect. There were also no touts or other visitors at the site when we were there, unlike Giza, which was pretty crowded.

But that is just me. Others, doubtlessly, had a different reaction to seeing Giza. 
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