On reflection I recall that I travelled against advice. I don't know it it was that of CBF Cyprus or FCO, but our TA rebooked Egyptian tour to Turkey. We told him to Redbook Egypt.
For £100 each we had a fully escorted tour and saw all the usual tourist sites with the addition of SAM sites, flak batteries, AD radars, torpedo nets, and a superb tactical operation by 4-ship of Fishbed minimising on the ground vulnerability. Our Coke even demonstrated this too with approx 90 kts down the taxy way and the nose wheel off before the marshalling point.
This was 5 months before the Yom Kippur war.