Transportation services in the country

the Air freight

Company Egipt Air in most cases daily, but on karjnej to a measure some times in a week will organise flights to following stations of destination: Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, Abu-Simbel, Hurgada, Charm-ale-sheikh, manastyr St. Katariny, the Ale-arish (in east the Mediterranean coast). Mars-Matruh (in the western part), and also in Nju-conducted in Libyan desert (oasis Harga). The airport in Tabe on boundary line of Egypt with Israel company Air Sinai (serves flights twice a week). The operating period office is in Cairo to the address: Nile Hiton - Hof, earphone 02/76-09-48.

The Airplane in Egypt - the most expensive aspect transport (for example, flight from Cairo to Luxor and anatropicly can cost nearby 200  dollars). The Degree of service of passengers is low. Telephone orders for tickets and the information on registration of return voyages are lost in system of databases of computers. Acquisition of tickets demands a lot of time and patience.

the Railway transportation

The Road from Cairo to Alexandria is especially interesting to tourists. Trains with comfortable first class compartments (air conditioning) pass it approximately for two hours. Tickets can be acquired one day prior to a trip at passenger depot Ramses. The price of the ticket does not exceed 7 dollars. The itinerary from Cairo through Luxor to Aswan is popular among tourists also. (Departing to a path, does not prevent to take an interest, what circumstances in regions of the Overhead Egypt where possibility of acts of terrorism is not expelled). Modern trains with sleepers depart from Cairo daily at 19 and 22 hours. According to the time-table the train should arrive to Luxor through 11  hours and per Aswan in 15 hours. But trains are late often. Tickets for a trip to a sleeper need to be reserved one week prior to leave in company Wagons Lits office indoors passenger depot Ramses (on the earphone: 02/75-35-55) or of company Isis-Travel (on earphone 02/3-48-55-92).

Intercity autobuss and horse crews

Not only romanticists drive about in horse crews which can be met almost in all cities of Egypt. These simply inexpensive means of transportation - a trip on small distance cost 4  Egyptian pound and above.

The Most popular and convenient type of transport is the autobus. Itineraries intercity by autobus bind the most remote points of the country, including oases of Libyan desert. With large cities and transport sites. The time-table of traffic of autobuss exists, but it cannot be caught, furthermore changes every day are made to it almost. Therefore is better to call in advance on bus station and to book tickets one day prior to a trip. The ticket from Cairo to Alexandria in autobus Super-Jet-Bus with air air conditioner costs nearby 5  dollars, from Cairo to Taby - 25  dollars. From the square before hotel Cairo Sheraton daily in 5  hours the autobus departs to Israel (10-15 hours of a path).

Urban transport

Taxi - the most convenient aspect of urban transport, however the prices for one trip can differ hardly in various regions of Egypt. Taxi drivers on parking before hotels request the unprecedented prices. nedeshevo the trip to a limousine belonging to hotel a Mercedes with the air conditioner manages also. To bargain in these cases it is not accepted.

The Monopoly for a taxi in Hugarde and on the Sinai Peninsula also allows motor-men to keep heavy prices. It is less than for 10  Egyptian pounds they for a rudder will not sit down.neskolko differently business in large cities is. In Cairo at trips in the middle cities it is possible to keep within 3 pounds, about the centre to the airport you will take for 14020 pounds, and from the centre to tripod signals t for 10  pounds. In Alexandria the trip, for example, from square Midan Ramle in Montazah will manage no more than in 5  pounds, in Luxor and Aswan the trip through all city will cost a maximum of 4-5 pounds.

That who, having a seat in a taxi, asks about the price, it is necessary to pay more. It is expedient to act as follows: after the arrival in a station of destination it is necessary to get out the car, and grass-snake then to pay (better on a broader scale through a window to pass money to the motor-man). Certainly, you should have sufficient composure easy to depart from the car, despite dissatisfied replicas of the motor-man.

In the country there are also fixed-route taxis, usually stamp cars pezho. But they ply on the country irregularly and more often on small distances.

the Motorship across Nile

Four-day cruise over Nile allows to meet without superfluous haste antiquity monuments on a path from Luxor to Aswan. The prices hardly fluctuate depending on a season. But before to depart to this wonderful travel, it is necessary to see to it about the safety, at least to familiarise with a situation (there is a danger of acts of terrorism). Now to undertake such trips it is not recommended.