13 Hours
Daily Tour
88 people
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Leaving Cairo to discover Egypt’s desert oases, lakes, and valleys takes serious planning. Avoid the effort on this private tour to the Al-Fayoum Oasis and its wadis. Traveling by air-conditioned 4WD, visit Al-Fayoum to see its migrating birds and fishing and farming communities; view extinct whale fossils at Wadi El-Hitan, and discover the lakes, waterfalls, and dunes at El-Rayan. A barbecue lunch and hotel pickup and drop-off are included.
Pick you up from your hotel in Cairo and drive to by jeep 4x4 towards Fayoum oasis, the largest oasis in the Western Desert. Upon arrival to Fayoum oasis you will visit the Qaroun Lake by felucca, then you will have a oasis tour to visit kaser Qaroun, Proceed your oasis tour to Wadi El Rayan reservatory to visit the spring and waterfall. Lunch meal is served in a local restaurant during your oasis tour. Continue driving towards Wadi Hitan ( known as the Valley of Whales), a surreal region where huge boulders seem to be capped with an imaginary icing of thick caramelised syrup, which appears to ooze down their sides. Within this also known for scientists as the Zeuglodon Valley, have been discovered in 1936, it is located 35 KM west of the Wadi El Rayan, right deep into the Western Desert. Whales were existed in Fayoum oasis over 40 million years ago. Return back to your hotel in Cairo.
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