| Massaoua | |
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| Information | |
| Country |  Eritrea |
|---|---|
| Area | 477 km² |
| Population | 39 758 hab. () |
| Density | 83,35 inhab./km² |
| Spindle | UTC 03:00 |
| Location | |
 15 ° 36 ′ 15 ″ N 39 ° 27 ′ 55 ″ E | |
Massaoua is a city ofEritrea .
Understand
To go
By plane
Massawa International Airport (IATA: MSW), (ICAO: HHMS) is a newly built international airport with higher capacity than Asmara. It is the hub for Nasair (local airline), the only company as of March 2011 to use the airport. Nasair has regular international flights totaling from Massawa to Dubai, Doha, Khartoum, Jeddah and Nairobi. Domestically, Nasair serves the Asmara capital of Massawa. All other international flights to Eritrea (Lufthansa from Frankfurt, Egyptair from Cairo and Yemenia from Sanaa) overland at the older and smaller Asmara airport.
By bus
Massawa is accessible from Asmara and the rest of the interior of Eritrea via the Asmara-Massawa highway. Buses run several times a day (before dusk) between Asmara and Massawa. Minibuses also run as soon as they are full (which takes very little time) between Asmara bus station and Massawa. Regional buses depart from Massawa Bus Station and around the area twice a week. But other than the two-day long coastal journey to the other port town of Assab and inland via Asmara, there isn't much to see beyond Massawa in the region. Massawa also connects to Asmara by narrow gauge railway, but it is not open to any regular service as it is more or less a museum railway with trains running on a steam engine and open only to charter tours.
By train
Circulate
The only areas of interest to tourists in the city are the two islands (Tualud and Oldtown) connected to each other and the mainland by causeways, and Gurgusum Beach which is about 14 km north of town towards the airport. Both islands are within walking distance, but at Gurgusum beach you have to take a taxi / car.
