Whales in the desert
Wadi El Hitan and Wadi El Rayan Day Trip from Cairo: The Valley of the Whales
Full day · about 10–11 hours · Fayoum · Private
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Egypt's longest story is written in its rock. Forty million years before the pyramids, whales with vestigial legs swam where this desert is now; their skeletons still lie where they fell, in the valley UNESCO protects for them.
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- Travel time
- About 2 hours to Fayoum, then desert tracks by four-wheel drive
- Time at sites
- About 2 hours at Wadi El Hitan
- Best time to go
- October to April
- Intensity
- Moderate
Proposed highlights
- The whale fossils of Wadi El Hitan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- The fossil and climate-change museum at the site
- The Wadi El Rayan waterfalls
- Tunis village above Lake Qarun
Places you visit
- Wadi El Hitan
- Wadi El Rayan
- Tunis village
- Lake Qarun
- Entrance tickets
- To be confirmed in your quote
- Optional / extra
- To be confirmed
- Tour format
- Private
How the day runs
Egypt's longest story is written in its rock. Forty million years before the pyramids, whales with vestigial legs swam where this desert is now; their skeletons still lie where they fell, in the valley UNESCO protects for them.
Early morning
Pickup
Early collection from your hotel in Cairo or Giza.
Morning
Wadi El Hitan
By four-wheel drive to the fossil trail, the whale skeletons and the site museum.
Afternoon
Wadi El Rayan waterfalls
The falls between the protected area's two lakes.
Late afternoon
Tunis village
Lunch above Lake Qarun before the drive back.
Evening
Return
Back to Cairo.
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Photo: Bernd Out, CC BY-SA 3.0
