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El Max, Alexandria

El Max is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.

El Max, Alexandria
El Max, Alexandria · This picture has been taken by Oleg Yunakov
The place

El Max is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around El Max, Alexandria

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lake Mariout

    Lake Mariout, is a brackish lake in northern Egypt near the city of Alexandria. The lake area covered 200 square kilometres and had a navigable canal at the beginning of the 20th century, but at the beginning of the 21st century, it covers only about 50 square kilometres.

    3.6 km · brackish lake in northern Egypt · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Serapeum of Alexandria

    The Serapeum of Alexandria was an ancient Greek temple built by Ptolemy III Euergetes and dedicated to the Greco-Egyptian syncretic god Serapis, who was believed to be the protector of Alexandria, Egypt. It was built during the 3rd century BCE, primarily between 246 and 222 BCE. It housed the daughter library of Alexandria.

    3.8 km · temple in Alexandria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Haras El Hodoud Stadium

    Haras El Hodoud Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Alexandria, Egypt. It is used mostly for football matches, and was used for the 2006 African Cup of Nations.

    2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Gabbari necropolis

    The Gabbari Necropolis is an Alexandria's City of the Dead in Lower Egypt. It is described as a site "of the utmost importance for the preservation of the cultural heritage" and one of the world's largest necropoli.

    2.2 km · Ancient site in Alexandria, Lower Egypt · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to El Max, Alexandria

Airports
Alexandria (HBE), 30 km · El Alamein (DBB), 136 km · Sphinx (SPX), 153 km
Stations
Alexandria Port, 3 km
  • El Alamein → El Max, Alexandria
    11884 km · quickest by air, 27h 26m · E£48,380–74,950
  • Al Jiza → El Max, Alexandria
    12541 km · quickest by air, 29h 35m · $1,920–2,950
  • Cairo → El Max, Alexandria
    12114 km · quickest by air, 28h 9m · E£49,200–76,260
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for El Max, Alexandria

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for El Max, Alexandria. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is also a bus from Gedid to Sidi Gaber, and from Sidi Gaber most parts of the city are accessible by minibus or tram if you are looking to save money.
  • Get inYou can take a minibus from Cairo for about (October 2025).
  • Get inWhile this is your cheapest option from most departure points, know that the minibuses can be hot and cramped, and your driver will likely drive like a mad person, so take them at your own risk.
  • Get inBut all of these are package tourist itineraries, and not available to book as point-to-point ferries.
  • Get aroundIf you are on a day trip to Alexandria, hire a taxi outside the railway station for the day.

From Wikivoyage: Alexandria, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    538 km
  2. 02
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    544 km
  3. 03
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    555 km
  4. 04
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    562 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    770 km

If you know how people move in El Max, Alexandria – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to El Max, Alexandria

El Max, Alexandria is 7 km from Alexandria, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.