El Alamein
Good to know
- Best time to go
- October to April for cool weather suited to visiting the memorials
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
This small coastal town gave its name to the decisive North African battles of 1942, remembered today in a war museum and immaculately kept Commonwealth, German, and Italian cemeteries. The surrounding coast is being developed into a new resort strip, but the memorials remain quietly moving.