The distance from Cairo to Siwa is a total of around 750 kilometres. If you are driving to Siwa, the best route to take is Siwa to El Alamein to Marsa Matrouh to Siwa. The journey can be completed in 8-9 hours with a couple of short stops in between.
From Cairo, get onto the Alexandria Desert Road. Once you cross “Masters”, a popular stop for tourist buses, look out for a signboard showing the way to El Alamein. You will have to take a U-turn and then a right to get onto the road leading to El Alamein. It is also the road leading to Porto Marina. It is quite a straight road right upto the city of El Alamein. Here you will find signs directing you to Marsa Matrouh. Once you are onto the straight road to Marsa Matrouh, the drive is again easy till you hit a sign which shows the way to the Marsa Matrouh city, a little to the right. Do not be tempted to take this road, but go on straight. Before you reach the gates of the Marsa Matrouh city, there will be a sign directing you to Siwa-you will have to take a U-turn and then turn right.
Right till you hit Siwa town, the road is fairly straight and will pose no problems.
A couple of points to be remembered that will make the trip easier.
§ Fill up on petrol before leaving Marsa Matrouh. There is no gas station on the road from Marsa to Siwa.
§ A few kilometers onto the Marsa-Siwa road, some construction work is going on and there is a stretch of ungravelled road for about 10 km. So, it is slow going.
§ Once you are onto the road to Marsa Matrouh, there is a place that you could use to break for a quick bite. You cant miss it –on the right side of the road you will see the KFC hoarding . Pizza Hut, KFC, Costa Coffee are all here, plus a couple of restaurants that are about to open. The toilet at the Pizza Hut is clean enough.
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We are headed to Egypt and want to go to Siwa. All tour operators are telling us the drive is 11 hours from Alexandria to Siwa, even if we take a private van/bus. But, your post says only 8-9 hours from Cairo on same route through Marsa Matruh. Why do you think there is such a discrepancy?
Hi,9 hours is what we took from Cairo to Siwa. IF you were to take the bus and have access to a scheduel for the bus,it takes five hrs from Cairo to Matruh and then 4 hrs from Matruh to Siwa.Which also adds up to 9 hrs
Maybe, the 11 hours is factoring in longish breaks
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