Travel time from Luxor is around three hours on 1st/2nd class AC services.More than five trains AC service arrives from Cairo each day, journey time to Cairo is around 13-14 hours costing 75LE for second class, 113LE first class recommending booking in advance and avoid black market offers from the people around the station. Because the airport may only have one flight, the security may not let you into the airport (even to the check-in area, until 2 hours before the flight.Įgypt's passenger train service runs along the Nile between Cairo and Aswan. Several airlines operate services to Aswan International Airport including EgyptAir (to/from Abu Simbel, Cairo, Luxor), LotusAir (to/from Cairo), and NileAir (to/from Cairo).ĭo not go to Aswan airport more than 2 hours before your flight. The normal daytime tourist fare should be around 100 EGP (~USD $5.50, November 2018) during the day, and 130-150 EGP at night. Taxis in Aswan are not metered, so you should agree to a price before the taxi starts moving.
Public buses don't go to the airport and security on the approach road to the terminal is tight so keep your passport and proof of ticket handy. Aswan was the ancient Egyptians' gateway to Africa.Īswan International Airport is situated 25km SSW of the city, on the west bank and just south of the high dam and takes roughly 30-40 minutes of travel time. Aswan is the home of many granite quarries from which most of the Obelisks seen in Luxor were sourced. Being the furthest south of the three, it has a large population of Nubian people, mostly resettled from their homeland in the area flooded by Lake Nasser.
Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.Īswan is the smallest of the three major tourist cities on the Nile. Aswan (Arabic: أسوان Aswān) is a city in the south of Egypt, some 680km (425 miles) south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000.
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