"BTW, if you get a chance, go visit the Spinx, its pretty cool."
It'd be mind blowing. Unfortunately that region of the world is warming up just at the present.
Get hold of Twain's "Innocents Abroad" and read his description of the Sphinx (very near the end of the book)he NAILS a universal sense of the thing in one perfect paragraph.
Egypt is safe, I never had any problems over there, just don't act like an ugly tourist.