El Alamein WWII Private Day Trip from Alexandria

6–8 hours Free cancellation Private tour

El-Alamein day tour — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

El Alamein Military Museum — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

About this activity

This is the desert war, not the pharaohs. About 100 km west of Alexandria, El Alamein is where the course of World War II in North Africa turned in 1942.

On this private day trip your guide takes you to the El Alamein War Museum, with its tanks, guns, and campaign maps, and then to the war cemeteries: the Commonwealth cemetery with its thousands of tended graves, and the German memorial that stands over the dunes like a fortress. Each side built its own place of remembrance here, and visiting them in turn gives the battle its full human weight.

It is a reflective day of about 6 to 8 hours, with hotel pickup and a private vehicle so you set the pace.

Ideal for history-minded travelers and anyone with a family link to the North African campaign.

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At a glance

Duration: 6–8 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: German, Arabic, English, Italian, French, Spanish
Operated by: Egypt Day Tours

Ages: Infants (0–2 years) · Children (3–11 years) · Adults (12–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Licensed Egyptologist guide with knowledge of WWII history
Included: Hotel, port, or airport pickup and drop-off in Alexandria area in private air-conditioned vehicle
Included: Mineral water on board the vehicle during the tour
Included: All Service charges and taxes
Included: All entrance fees to El Alamein War Cemetery, Museum

Not included

Not included: Gratuities for guide and driver (optional)
Not included: Any extra not mentioned.
Not included: Personal expenses, souvenirs, and anything not listed as included

Itinerary

El Alamein War Museum

one hour Admission included

You begin at the El Alamein War Museum, which lays out the 1942 battle that halted the Axis drive toward the Suez Canal and the oil beyond. You walk among tanks, field guns, and the uniforms and gear of the British, German, Italian, and Egyptian forces, while your guide traces how the campaign moved across this empty desert. Maps and dioramas turn a confusing battle into a clear story. It is the orientation that makes the cemeteries that follow hit harder.
Stop 2

one hour

You finish at the German war memorial, a stark sandstone structure built like a desert fortress on a rise above the sea, holding the remains of more than 4,000 German soldiers in a circular ossuary. It is somber and very different in feel from the Commonwealth rows, a single mass monument rather than individual graves. From the terrace you look out over the Mediterranean that the whole campaign was fought to control. The Italian memorial stands nearby for those who wish to add it.
El Alamein War Cemetery

one hour

You move to the Commonwealth War Cemetery, where more than 7,000 headstones stand in quiet rows on the open ground, each carved with a name, a regiment, and often a family's parting words. Soldiers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and beyond lie here together. Your guide gives the place room rather than narrating over it. Walking the rows, with the desert stretching flat in every direction, the cost of 1942 becomes impossible to abstract.

Meeting point and pickup

The operator picks every participant up from their accommodation or the points below.

Pickup points

Aswan Plaza Hotel
Siesta Hotel Alexandria
Alex Inn Suites & Rooms
Royal jewel Al-Raml Hotel
Alex Inn
Alexandria Apartments Hotel
Mirage Hotel & Conference Center
Pearl sea view inn
Union Hotel
Sheraton Ganna
Ibiza beach apartments
Seven Stays

and 80 more pickup points

Please share your hotel, port, or airport pickup location in the Alexandria area when booking. Your guide will meet you at the agreed pickup point in the morning for the approximately 1.5 to 2 hour drive west to El Alamein. The cemeteries and war memorials honor those who fell in the WWII Battle of El Alamein. Modest dress recommended at the cemeteries as a sign of respect.