Uncover El Alamein's WWII Legacy: Private Alexandria Day Trip

Norman and essay picked me and my girlfriend up at our hotel on time took just over an hour to get to the german wargraves then onto the italian War graves and finally the commonwealth afterwards we went to the war museum after both guide and driver where excellent in their knowledge and English and friendly stopped for lunch on way back. The tour was as advertised and worth doing.

When we eventually got to the right memorial in El Alamein for the Allied forces including New Zealand and Australia it was fantastic. Not sure Viator why we joined another tour but the guide took us to the German and Italian which our countries were in conflict with. She was lovely but had no history of this event. That was disappointing.

Trip to El alamein was great, both guide Salma and driver were happy to let me go at my own pace and show me around.

The private day trip to El Alamein from Alexandria was fantastic. Thanks to my guide Mohamed Salama, who was excellent in providing details around the war memorials from understanding the significance of the major battle of El Alamein to how even though the cemeteries exist, there are still bodies being discovered to this day (and even some mines)! I found the Commonwealth memorial to be quite profound and the El Alamein Museum was a fantastic place for me to walk by myself as my guide gave me initial information to help me navigate the area. And the lunch when we returned to Alexandria was a good treat as well. It’s sad to hear how new resort developments are taking over and the future of these memorials might be in question. I highly recommend this tour as a good day out to learn about the significance of El Alamein thanks to the guide and also to get in before the resorts start taking over.

The various war memorials in El Alamein are amazing in both architecture and significance and so different from each other. The tour takes you to the Italian, German and Commonwealth memorials / cemeteries and ends up at the Military museum. The whole day was unbelievably profound. It was especially significant for my wife, whose Grandfather fought at El Alamein with the Australian Ninth Division. Our Guide and Driver were both excellent!

Good road from Alexandria to El Alamein, meant the journey each way took 1.5hrs. Extraordinary to see all the development along the route. The three cemeteries were very quiet and learning that development is encroaching on them was a worry as they did not care about the history and the dead. The museum was very interesting, well laid out, the staff member very keen to show me round and explain the exhibits in good English. Our guide for the day was Mohamed, and he together with the driver made it a very worthwhile trip and answered and explained additional information along the way. I know about WWII in North Africa and would thoroughly recommend for anyone with an interest in history to do this tour.

Good road from Alexandria to El Alamein, meant the journey each way took 1.5hrs. Extraordinary to see all the development along the route. The cemeteries were very quiet, the museum really interesting, well laid out and the staff member very keen to show us round and explain the exhibits in good English. Our guide for the day was Nessrin, and she together with her driver made it a very worthwhile trip. I knew very little about WW11 in North Africa and would thoroughly recommend for anyone with an interest in history.

Amazing day everything I wanted it to be. Guide and driver were perfect and great company…you gotta do this

It was very difficult to understand our English speaking guide. He was a very nice man but we really struggled to understand him for most of the day. We said this to him and he tried to speak a lot slower for us . The sites are worth visiting and you are probably better off with a travel book if you don’t speak Arabic .

Mohamed and our driver were so kind and helpful and made sure we saw everything we could. Mohamed explained lots of interesting things about the battle of El Alamein and the cemeteries.