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The tour to Whales Valley from Cairo is a full day trip it starts with pick up from your hotel and drive for one and half hour to Fayoum then you will change the car to a 4×4 to go deep into the desert for about 40 km to the UNESCO world heritage site Valley of the Whales or Wadi Hitan where you will enjoy fossils of whales and marine animals dating back to 40 million years. Returning back to Wadi Rayan to climb the Mudawara mountain and see spectacular views of the desert. After that, you will see the Wadi Rayan Waterfalls and enjoy a brief felucca ride in its waters. End your tour with lunch at Tunis Village.
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Duration: 10 hours
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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The tour to Whales Valley from Cairo is a full day trip it starts with pick up from your hotel and drive for one and half hour to Fayoum then you will change the car to a 4×4 to go deep into the desert for about 40 km to the UNESCO world heritage site Valley of the Whales or Wadi Hitan where you will enjoy fossils of whales and marine animals dating back to 40 million years. Returning back to Wadi Rayan to climb the Mudawara mountain and see spectacular views of the desert. After that, you will see the Wadi Rayan Waterfalls and enjoy a brief felucca ride in its waters. End your tour with lunch at Tunis Village.
Stop At: Valley of the Whales (Wadi Al-Hitan), Western Desert, Giza Egypt
Wadi El-Hitan or Valley of the Whales is an uninhabited area and it is part of Wadi El-Rayan Reserve in Fayoum, about 40 km from Wadi El-Rayan.
In the Valley of the Whales, there are 10 complete structures of whales that lived in the region as well as more than 300 fossil whales dating back about 40 million years ago, and they were part of a large ocean that includes North Africa (Teth Sea) in addition to many marine fossils that you can see. In the reserve, there is an open museum.
At the same time, the Valley of Whales is a natural environment for endangered animals, such as the fennec fox and some migratory birds. In addition, the Valley of the Whales remains a very special place for astronomical monitoring, due to its distance from the pollution and noise of the city.
In the year 2005 AD, the Valley of the Whales (Wadi El Hitan) area was classified as a world heritage area and was chosen by UNESCO as the best world heritage areas for whale skeletons.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Wadi El-Rayan, 65 km southwest of Faiyum city 80 km west of the Nile River, Al Fayyum Egypt
Wadi El-Rayan, a deep depression of Eocene limestone, is home to two large lakes, the upper lake, and the lower lake, connected to Egypt’s only waterfall.
Wadi El-Rayan Reserve is distinguished by its integrated desert environment, which contains a variety of landscapes and formations, including rare wildlife in the Wadi Al-Rayan desert, as well as fossils of creatures from past ages and cultural heritage sites from ancient civilizations.
Wadi El-Rayan was designated a protected area in 1989 to protect the biological, geological, and cultural resources of the area, according to the official website of the Fayoum governorate.
Duration: 1 hour
