Well - where to start? first of all Cairo is a bit of a hell hole....it sounds bad, but then so is the traffic, noise, pollution, 18 million people in the city.... A bit of advice: don't stay in a hotel on the Pyramid Road in Giza as it's rush hour 24/7 and car horns beep several times a second, every minuite of the day!
The Pyramids and museum are really impressive - although we thought people were joking when they said that there was a McDonalds at the Pyramids. They are in fact wrong - it's a Pizza Hut and KFC!
Tips for travellers to cairo.....avoid giza altogether, stay in accomodation "downtown".
As for the famous sound and light show at the pyramids...its not really that impressive, our advice would be to barter and get a cab or bus to the pyramids late afternoon and chill out for a couple of hours and them buy your own ticket for the sound and light(costs about 40 egyptian pounds). Dont pay for an excursion which costs abour thirty dollars!!.
Beware of the locals on camels around the pyramids who chase you and hassle you to buy their tat. The pyramids are impressive though View image
, but sad to see that the sprawling city is fast encroaching on them.....

Off to the sleeper train to Aswan now...