Zagazig is a town of about 280,000 people in Lower Egypt, the capital of the Sharqia Governorate.
Get in
[edit]By plane
[edit]Cairo International Airport is the nearest international gateway to it and it is only an hour by car from the Airport.
By bus
[edit]You can reach the city by the Public Bus Service which is being run by "East of Delta co." or "Shark Al-Delta" as pronounced in Arabic.
By train
[edit]You can reach to the city using the Egyptian National Railways which is called in Arabic "Sekak Hadeed Masr" and the city is about 1.5 hours away from Cairo. 1 Zagazig railway station is centrally located at Orabi square.
By taxi
[edit]From Aboud station you can reach the city using the road which connects "Cairo-Banha-Minyat Al Kamh- Zagazig" or From the El salam station "Locally widely known as Al aashr station" using the desert way to Belbies to Zagazig.
Get around
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See
[edit]- 1 Museum of leader Ahmed Orabi (متحف الزعيم أحمد عرابى), Ahmed Orabi St. 08:00-19:00 daily. Museum dedicated to one of the first nationalist leaders in Egypt who was born here in 1841. Also includes exhibitions on the culture of the Sharqia region.
- 2 Tell Basta (Bubastis) (to the southeast). The ruins of the ancient sacred city of Bastet, the cat goddess. There are ruins of temples and catacombs of sacred cats.
- 3 Museum of Tell Basta Antiquities (متحف تل بسطة), Zakazik First (northwest of Bubastis archaeological site), ☏ +20 55 2299381. 09:00-17:00 daily. Museum with Egyptian relics related to Bubastis, in particular to the cat goddess Bastet along with ushabti statues and mummies of the 18th dynasty. Pottery and mummy preservation stuff.
Do
[edit]Buy
[edit]Eat
[edit]- Mo'men, tolba ewida street. Egyptian fast food restaurant
- Freskas. best sandwiches in zagazig
Drink
[edit]- El rashidy.
Sleep
[edit]Go next
[edit]- 1 Tanis (adjacent to San Al Hagar township). Where Indiana Jones found the 'Lost Ark'. Its an archaeological ruin of the Late Period (8th-4th century BCE) built up by Psusennes I and later Pharaohs that really hasn't fared well, there just being some obelisks and stelae scattered about a partly excavated field with glass shard debris. It is not of the same preservation caliber as other ancient Egyptian ruins, sadly and may take some know-how/perseverance to visit, as it's not commercialized or developed.
- 2 Sadat Quraish Mosque, in Bilbeis.