El Alamein Hotels - Reviews and Rates

A very short post. Ragaa took me to two of her beautiful homes - one in the newly cultivated countryside, one on the North Coast. We drove through Giza, past the mountainous pyramids again, through insane traffic, and into the desert. As an aside, the pyramids dominate the horizon from almost any part of the city. I even saw them, barely, from t...

El Alamein was were Montgomery's 8th Army took on Rommels 5th Army and won during June 1942. Over 80,000 soldiers died fighting at El Alamein and subsequent battles afterwards. The Battle for El Alamein is considered to be the last battle fought by the British Empire. There are over 7000 graves at the War Cemetary from many nationalities includi...

About 105km west of Alexandria, along the coastal highway, lies the small town of El Alamein - a place which many have never heard of but was the setting for one of the first decisive battles in World War 2. Now a quiet backwater with a main focus on seasonal tourism at nearby beaches of the Mediterranean, it still draws a steady stream of Commo...