Fayoum Oasis-Qaroun Lake – Wadi Hitan – Wadi Rayyan – Modawara -Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Forty million Years Tour
Dry Scoabdiving on the forty million Sea
From here begins the history of the earth under the sand waves of the pre-human and prehistoric era, and from the ruggedness of the depths of the oceans to the rugged terrain of the desert, about 40 million years ago. To the legend from the truth
is full of priceless thousands of petrified animals and plants and is a stop for migratory birds, endangered animals and wild plants.
Geographically, Wadi Al-Hitan is among the 30 nature reserves in Egypt. It is part of the Wadi El-Rayan Protectorate, and part of the Fayoum Oasis considered one of the most important Egyptian oases in the Western Desert.
Wadi Hitan is located in the southwest of the city of Cairo, about 220 km away. We head southwest to Fayoum, and from Fayoum, we head west to Wadi El Rayan.
Wadi Hitan Its story begins in 1902 when an English scientist came to do his graduation research and visited the Fayoum area and Wadi Al-Hitan and found fossils of bones.
Description & Instructions When Visiting Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Forty million Years Tour
Dry Scoabdiving on the forty million Sea
From here begins the history of the earth under the sand waves of the pre-human and prehistoric era, and from the ruggedness of the depths of the oceans to the rugged terrain of the desert, about 40 million years ago. To the legend from the truth
is full of priceless thousands of petrified animals and plants and is a stop for migratory birds, endangered animals and wild plants.
Geographically, Wadi Al-Hitan is among the 30 nature reserves in Egypt. It is part of the Wadi El-Rayan Protectorate, and part of the Fayoum Oasis considered one of the most important Egyptian oases in the Western Desert.
Wadi Hitan is located in the southwest of the city of Cairo, about 220 km away. We head southwest to Fayoum, and from Fayoum, we head west to Wadi El Rayan.
Wadi Hitan Its story begins in 1902 when an English scientist came to do his graduation research and visited the Fayoum area and Wadi Al-Hitan and found fossils of bones.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Wadi El-Rayan, 65 km southwest of Faiyum city 80 km west of the Nile River, Al Fayyum Egypt
Wadi El-Rayan is a natural depression in the western desert of Egypt, 42m below the sea level. It consists of two lakes connected by Egypt’s only waterfall. It was designated as a Protected Area in 1989 to protect the area’s biological, geological and cultural resources. The Protected Area covers 1759 km2 in the southern part of El-Fayoum.
The waterfalls are one of the best known attractions in Wadi El- Rayan Protected Area. The area conserves large expanses of desert containing a variety of landscapes and formations. Rare and fascinating wild life is found in the desert of Wadi El- Rayan along with fossils of creatures of past epochs and cultural heritage sites from ancient civilizations.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Valley of the Whales (Wadi Al-Hitan), Western Desert, Giza Egypt
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the major stories of evolution: the emergence of the whale as an ocean-going mammal from a previous life as a land-based animal. This is the most important site in the world for the demonstration of this stage of evolution. It portrays vividly the form and life of these whales during their transition. The number, concentration and quality of such fossils here is unique, as is their accessibility and setting in an attractive and protected landscape. The fossils of Al-Hitan show the youngest archaeocetes, in the last stages of losing their hind limbs. Other fossil material in the site makes it possible to reconstruct the surrounding environmental and ecological conditions of the time.
Duration: 3 hours
Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
