Minya Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

The Upper Egypt Bus Co (236 3721; Sharia Saad Zaghloul) has hourly services to Cairo (E£12, four hours) from 6am and to Asyut (E£10, two hours), where you can catch buses to Luxor and New Valley. Buses leave for Hurghada at 10.30am, 4pm and 11pm (E£14, six hours).

Train

Trains to Cairo (three to four hours) have only 1st- and 2nd-class carriages and leave at 5.55am, 6.30am, 8.50am, 4.30pm (which goes on to Alexandria) and 6.50pm. Tickets in 1st-class cost E£30 to E£40, in 2nd-class E£27 to E£29.

Trains heading south leave fairly frequently, with the fastest trains departing from Minya between around 11pm and 1am. Although foreigners are supposed to take only the two ‘special’ trains that come from Cairo, no-one stops you from taking the one you want. Seven 1st-/2nd-class trains go all the way to Luxor (E£49/32) and Aswan (E£60/39), stopping at Asyut (E£13/8), Sohag (E£21/13) and Qena (E£31/19).

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