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Municipal district of Giza, Egypt

El Warraq

Al Warraq is a municipal district of the Giza city in Egypt, consisting of both mainland and Warraq Island in the River Nile.

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Al Warraq is a municipal district of the Giza city in Egypt, consisting of both mainland and Warraq Island in the River Nile.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to El Warraq

Airports
Cairo (CAI), 20 km · Sphinx (SPX), 28 km · Port Said (PSD), 164 km
Stations
Rod al-Farag Corridor, 1.8 km · El-Qawmia, 3.6 km · Ring Road, 2.8 km
  • Port Said → El Warraq
    1877 km · quickest by road, 35h 47m · E£3,260–4,350
  • Alexandria → El Warraq
    1900 km · quickest by road, 36h · E£3,300–4,410
  • El Arish → El Warraq
    1858 km · quickest by road, 37h 40m · E£3,430–4,570
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for El Warraq

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 Warraq. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAs of 2025 it has only seasonal charter services operated by Smartwings.
  • Get inA cheaper option to get to Sharm by bus is to take a bus, a train, or a minibus to Suez and from the main bus station there, take the 11AM or the 1:20PM bus to Sharm.
  • Get aroundBecause of problems with sexual harassment women travellers are advised only to take the small minibuses and buses which prohibit standing.
  • Get aroundOn minibuses, the fare starts at LE5 and goes up to LE15 depending on the length of the route.
  • Get aroundThere are actually two stations - the main bus station for the city buses, and the minibus station behind it.

From Wikivoyage: Cairo, 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

    370 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    413 km
  3. 03
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    413 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    687 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    935 km

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Around it

Next door to El Warraq

El Warraq is 6 km from Shubrā al Khaymah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.