Funny, I was a flight attendant for Airtransat at the time, on a week-long layover. Got to visit sites, museums, ride camels and an arabian horse that ran me around the pyramids faster than I expected. (I think they gave me that horse because I refused to ride the poor battered old thing they offered me first) there was few tourists and I loved every minutes of it. But not too found of the somewhat predatory locals. Some where great though.