3 DAYS TRIP TO WADI EL HITAN & FAYOUM OASIS FROM CAIRO
Pick up: 7:00 AM
Duration:3 Days/ 2Night
Run: Every Day
Type: Private
Highlights:
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Visit Wadi El Hitan-Valley of the whales
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Enjoy 4 x4 Safari Trip
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sand dunes and Sandboard
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Visit Fayoum oasis
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the Pyramid of Medium
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The Pyramid of Hawara
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Wadi El Rayan
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Magic Lake
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Sandboard
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Tunis village
We offer a unique 3 days Trip to Wadi Al Hitan( whales valley) and Fayoum oasis from Cairo with Overnight in Camping in the desert, Discover It’s ‘Wadi Al Hitan’ The site today is a Protected area and a Natural Heritage Site added in 2005 by the UNESCO as a world heritage site,
Itinerary: We offer a unique 3 days Trip to Wadi Al Hitan( whales valley) and Fayoum oasis from Cairo with Overnight Camping in the desert, Discover It’s ‘Wadi Al Hitan’ The site today is a Protected area and a Natural Heritage Site added in 2005 by the UNESCO as a world heritage site, discover this amazing place with 4*4, Overnight in Tunis village lodge
First Day: Day 1-Cairo-Fayoum
Pick up from your hotel in Cairo and transferred by air-conditioned Car to El Fayoum Oasis in the Western Desert. Drive from Cairo to El Fayoum for around 1 hour, Then once you arrive change to a 4x4 vehicle. Start the desert adventure with 4x4 Jeep from Tunis village Qarun lake, Make a Desert Trip to Wadi El Hitan. It’s ‘Wadi Al Hitan’ The site today is a Protected area and a Natural Heritage Site added in 2005 by the UNESCO as a world heritage site, WADI EL-HITAN is also known for scientists in the Zeuglodon Valley, have been discovered in 1936, it is located 35 KM west of the Wadi El-Ryan, right deep into the desert western A desert is It is an area of fossils; is considered an open museum, dates back to 45 million years and contains petrified primitive whales' skeletons, shark teeth, shells, and roots of Mangroves preserved in soft rocks. Everywhere you go here you find petrified seashell and corals, Visit the Fossil & Climate Change Museum The museum hosts a variety of whale fossils and skeletons that are displayed outdoors, for the museum has a variety of fossils, skeletons, fossilized mangroves, and ancient seashells exhibited indoors in glass boxes, Enjoy your lunch, watch the sunset in the desert then Enjoy Bbq dinner and watch the stars like an Arabian Nights.
Day 2- Fayoum- Tunis village
Enjoy Egyptian Breakfast, following with sand dunes Trip, and visit Qusur El Arab. Wadi El Rayan. 1-The Petrified forest Situated in the north of Lake Qaroun in Gabal Qatrani is the largest petrified forest in the world, home to 40 meters high trees that have survived in ossified form for thousands of years 2-Then Dimet el Sabah Dimeh al-Siba (Dime, Dima, and nearby Qasr al-Sangha) on the northern side of Lake Qaroun is one of the most interesting in the Fayoum, Dimeh al-Siba, Dimeh of the Lions, was a Ptolemaic city believed to be founded by Ptolemy II in the third century BC, on a site that shows evidence of habitation from the Neolithic period. Today, it is more isolated, but during Ptolemaic times it was at the shore of the much larger lake, situated at the edge of Moeris Bay, and the beginning of the caravan routes into the Western Desert, The ruins of Dimeh al-Siba contain the two temples, houses, underground chambers, streets and ten-meter high walls that are sometimes up to five meters thick. The walls themselves are a testament to the survivability of mudbrick in the desert environment. The ground is strewn with debris. An uncountable number of shards cover the entire temple mound. 3- Qaser Al Sangha The Golden Fortress(Qaser Al Sagha) is an unusual Middle kingdom, The building is situated North of the lake, and The temple is constructed of limestone. The Function of this unusual temple is unclear.
enjoy Sandboarding, and Enjoy the Sand Dunes and Magic Lake in one of the best destinations in Egypt.
After the Sandboarding, head to the camping site for having Dinner (Chicken Mandy Underground cooked) and watching the magical night sky and stars. Drive back to Tunis village and overnight in one Tunis villages Lodge
Day 3- Fayoum to Cairo
Have a special breakfast (Feteer Meshaltet, Balck honey, Cheese, Halawa, and hot drinks)
Then, Visit the Qarun Lake, Qarun Lake is considered the oldest natural lake in the world, the third-largest lake in Egypt, and the rest of Lake Old Maurice. Then head to Wadi El Rayan & Wadi El Rayan Waterfalls, The waterfalls in Wadi el-Rayan are a natural phenomenon and are considered to be the largest waterfalls in Egypt. After waterfalls drive to Whales Valley, Wadi Al-Hitan, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, the suborder of whales, Archaeoceti.
After Lunch, drive back to your hotel in Cairo.
Inclusions:
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Pick up and drop off services from Cairo & Back return
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Transportation by air-conditioned vehicle between Cairo
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Mineral water and soft drinks
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Transportation by private jeep 4x4 from Cairo to Wadi Hitan (Valley of whales)
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English speaking tour guide throughout the Safari trip
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Entrance fees to the sights as per itinerary
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Lunch meals during the tour in Egypt's western desert
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1 Night Camping in the Wadi El Hitan
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1 Night at one of Tunis Villages lodges
Exclusions:
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Tipping
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Entrance fees to the National Park wadi el Hitan are 180 LE p.p
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Entrance fees to the National Park Qarun Lake are 100 LE
Please remember to bring:
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Hat
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Sunglasses
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Sun Cream
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Torch
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Tissue