El Alamein, Egypt

As soon as we got off the 3 hour bus from Cairo in Alexandria’s bus station this afternoon we set about chartering a taxi to take us the 106 kilometres west along the northern Egyptian coast into the desert of El Alamein. Our guidebook says the El Alamein War Museum is open until 4 p.m. so stepping from the taxi at 2:30 p.m. to find the museum closed was a disappointment, especially seen as we had decided to charter the taxi specifically to get us there with sufficient time to take in the museum.

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