Cairo

Day 03   CAIRO – MEIDUM – FAIYUM OASIS – WADI EL RAYAN – WADI AL HITAN – MINYA

Early breakfast at the hotel then your guide will accompany you, you will transfer by air-conditioned land cruise  to discover the magic of the Egyptian desert and stop to visit the   Medium Pyramids,  The Medium Pyramid, on the other hand, is located right in the middle of nowhere at a distance of about 100 kilometers (62  miles) south of Egypt’s capital. This makes it a pretty impressive sight to behold. It’s part of a much larger archaeological site that features a mortuary temple and several mudbrick mastabas, basically flat ancient Egyptian tombs and the predecessors of It’s part of a much larger archaeological site that features a mortuary temple and several mudbrick mastabas, basically flat ancient Egyptian tombs and the predecessors of the mighty pyramids.  . After that we visit the Oasis of Al Fayum, we outline the great · Qaroun Lake lies at north of Fayoum Governorate. It is about 20 km north of Fayoum city, 80 southwest of  Cairo. The lake is considered one of the most important ancient natural lakes. It is the remaining part of the ancient Moeris Lake. It persists today as a smaller saltwater lake called Birket Qarun. The lake’s surface is 43 m (140 ft) below sea-level, and covers about 214 square kilometers. Stop to have lunch at local restaurant keep continue by Land cruiser , arrive to Wadi Rayyan   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 the Wadi El-Rayan Protected Area. The area conserves large expanses of desert containing a variety of landscapes and formations. Rare and fascinating wildlife is found in the desert of Wadi El- Rayan along with fossils of creatures of past epochs and cultural heritage sites from ancient civilizations. Keep traveling through the desert, and stop at   WADI AL HITTAN -the valley of the whales-, Wadi Al-Hiten in Egypt’s Western Desert is the only place in the world where the  skeletons of families of archaic whales can be seen in their original geological and geographic  setting of the shallow nutrient-rich bay of a sea of some 40 million years ago. The fossils and  sediments of different periods and levels reveal many millions of years of life and are valuable indications of the paleoecologic conditions, of Eocene vertebrate and invertebrate life and the evolution of these ancestors of modern whales. Remarkably, the two species still had small hind limbs, feet, and toes. The quality, abundance, concentration, and state of preservation of these fossils are unequaled. Our land cruiser will keep transferring us to  MENIA, a city of 300,000 inhabitants by the Nile, check-in hotel. Dinner included. Overnight at hotel meals breakfast lunch dinner