Giza Trip Overview
Pick up from Cairo hotel. Start the trip to Fayoum by our air-conditioned tourist vehicle. Visit lake Qaroon, wadi El-Rayyan waterfalls, Mudawara mountain, the two lakes, Wadi El-Hitan, the fossils museum, and Tunis village. Transfer you back to Cairo next day after camping. Drop you off at your hotel.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Giza, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Giza, Giza Governorate, Egypt
Pick up from Cairo hotel. Start the trip to Fayoum by our air-conditioned tourist vehicle. Visit lake Qaroon, wadi El-Rayyan waterfalls, Mudawara mountain, the two lakes, Wadi El-Hitan, the fossils museum, and Tunis village. Transfer you back to Cairo next day after camping. Drop you off at your hotel.
Itinerary
Day 1: Valley of the Whales (Wadi Al-Hitan), Western Desert, Giza Egyp
Stop At: Al-Fayoum Oasis tours, Fayoum , Taha Hussien Street Fayoum, Al Fayyum 63121 Egypt
pick up from Cairo airport transferred by air-conditioned Car to El Fayoum oasis in the Western DesertStart the desert adventure with 4×4 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 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 desert, is It is an area of fossils; considered as 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 sea shell and corals, Visit the Fossil & Climate Change Museum
Museum which hosts a variety of whale fossils, and skeletons that are displayed outdoors, as for the museum it has a variety of fossils, skeletons, fossilized mangroves, and ancient sea shells 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
Duration: 1 day
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Enjoy and watch the magnificent scenery of the sky full of stars. Then you will stay there,Camp and overnight
Day 2: Explore, Qarun lake, Wadi El Rayan, Wadi El Hitan and the magic lake.
Stop At: Wadi El-Rayan, 65 km southwest of Faiyum city 80 km west of the Nile River, Al Fayyum Egypt
In the morning, after breakfast, you will visit the Valley of Whales “Wadi Hitan”. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2005, for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of Whale. See fossils up to 200 million years old, from when the desert was covered in water. The most conspicuous fossils are the skeletons and bones of whales and sea cows. The fossils of whales vary from single bones to entire skeletons, and a number of partial skeletons are currently on display in the public part of the park.
Then ending this great trip and moving to visit Mudawara Mountain which is located only a couple of hundred meters to the south of Wadi El Rayan Road. It is more of a rock formation than a true mountain, its layered appearance is beautiful, with a certain symmetry to the feature that draws your gaze to it. After that you will be transferred back to your hotel
Duration: 7 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
