re: Planning a trip to Egypt in Sept. any input?

When I went I flew down to south to see abu simbel, it was impressive. Then we road up the Nile to Cairo stopping at cities like Luxor along the way. I'd recommend using a tour group. The constant bargaining would have killed the trip for me, luckily the tour group handles most of that. The Pyramids are cool, got to climb up one of them from the inside, there are limited daily tickets for that. Hot air balloons ride to the valley of kings was cool. Alexandria was good but not a must. Finished off at Sharm el Sheik and did some diving in the Red Sea. Overall it was a great trip. It is dirty, very poor and the language barrier is big in non-tourist towns. Luckily tourism is a huge industry there so most places were very accommodating.