Getting To Aswan By Road

Getting To Aswan By Road

Reaching Aswan by road is perhaps the best possible way to make it to this scenic city. Make Cairo the base of your travel and you will get plenty of comfortable air conditioned buses taking you to Aswan.

Infact most of the highways of Egypt are concentrated north of Aswan. Therefore the road connectivity of the place is excellent. Cairo and Abu Simbel are the major points from where you can either take a bus or hire a car to reach Aswan. Road Transportation is also quite good from Luxor to Aswan.

The landscape of Egypt is awesome and while on your way to Aswan you are privileged to catch glimpses of the charismatic natural splendour. But road transportation though cheap and comfortable has some limitations.

Journeying by road is not an easy affair, because the nature of road varies throughout the country. One can also hire long distance taxis for coming to Aswan by road. From Cairo hire a black and white cab at a reasonable fare and reach Aswan within a few hours.

Make sure that the car you have hired to reach Aswan has enough petrol in it, because its pretty difficult to find a petrol pump . Moreover you need to have permission to take rented cars to the south of Aswan.

There is no major bus route to Aswan as such. Moreover its better to avoid going by road during the monsoons.

Aswan is a lovely city, with granite temples, lush green orchards full of tropical fruit trees and the beautiful Nile flowing by its side. The setting of the place is very much responsible in making it one of the best winter resorts of Egypt.

Getting to Aswan by road is very simple because you have ample scope of having good Conveyance arranged for it. Make sure you settle the fare of the taxis before hiring it.

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