Let’s start this spiritual 2 Days Fayoum & Wadi Al Hitan Tour from Cairo City. when our tour guide will pick up from your hotel in the morning hours by a private 4X4 land cruiser to discover:

Fayoum Waterfalls:

The waterfalls in Wadi El-Rayan are a natural phenomenon and are considered to be the largest waterfalls in Egypt.

40km towards Bahariya oasis, Wadi al Rayan is a place of outstanding natural beauty where two lakes of different attitudes meet making water falls with beautiful natural sceneries. Locals enjoy having picnics and walking through the waterfall.

Fayoum Waterwheels:

The waterwheels in Fayoum are among the most interesting ancient sites in Fayoum, over 200 of them straddles the Canals, Unique to the area, the wooden wheels are driven by fast-moving water of the Canals and were introduced into Fayoum during the Ptolemaic times.

You will enjoy your lunch at noon then move to:

Qarun Lake:

Qarun Lake is considered the oldest natural lakes in the world, the third largest lake in Egypt and the rest of Lake Old Maurice. It is considered an interior lake unrelated to any sea and an area of around 53 thousand acres in Fayoum Down.

Tea break and B.B.Q dinner at the Bedouin camp and spend the night at the campsite.

Meals: Lunch and Dinner

Breakfast and continue your desert camping tours in Fayoum and Wadi Hitan by visiting:

Wadi El Hitan:

Wadi El-Hitan (Valley of the Whales) is a natural reserve in the western desert, about 200 km west of Cairo. The area is of important paleontological interest due to the existence of a wide variety of fossilized flora and fauna.

On 15th July 2005 Wadi El-Hitan was designated as a UNISCO World Heritage Site owing to the important 40-million-year-old whale skeletons found there. The fossil remains of the first primitive whales and ancestors of modern-day whales.

Wadi El-Hitan is also home to 15 species of desert plants and about 15 types of wild mammals such as the North African jackal, red fox, Egyptian mongoose, African wildcat, and Dorcas gazelle.

Museum of Wadi El-Hitan:

In the desert valley of Wadi al-Hitan, some 150 km southwest of Cairo, Egypt, has unveiled what it said is the Middle East’s first museum dedicated to fossils that showcases an early form of whales, now extinct and known as the “walking whale.”

The centerpiece of the museum is a 37-million-year-old and 18-meter-long skeleton of a legged form of whale that testifies to how modern-day whales evolved from land mammals.

In addition, a substantial collection of fossils and other distinctive items from across Egypt exhibits the climate change process on planet Earth.

After finishing your tour, you will proceed for lunch and drive back to your hotel in Cairo/Giza.

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch.