Good country, exhausting tourist industry

Egypt is a genuinely beautiful and interesting place. Egyptian Museum is worth every superlative thrown at it. The ta'meya is legitimately excellent. Nile River cruises gave the trip real depth.

What I struggled with: the tourist infrastructure around the headline sites in Luxor is relentlessly commercial and heat in summer is extreme is a genuine friction point. You can feel the gap between authentic Egypt and the packaged version sold to tourists. The authentic version wins, but you have to work to find it.