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One
Day desert Safari
Fayoum Oases Tour
Start from Cairo
Photo
Credit Osama Abdel A'al - Click here for more images from
the Oases
Private
Desert Caravan
Daily departure
On
Desert Safari to Fayoum Oases for the Day - Start in Cairo any day -
Year Round
The wilds of the
desert begin right on the outskirts of Cairo, and continue for hundreds
of miles to the east and west, through sands, rock, mountains, oases,
and a surprising variety of scenery and inhabitants.
Join us for a day
ranging across the desert like modern nomads. In place of camels, we’ll
travel in comfortable, reliable four-by-four Toyota Land Cruisers. Your
guide and drivers will meet you at your hotel, and soon you’ll
leave bustling Cairo behind as you undertake the drive toward the Oasis
of El Fayoum, 150 kilometers to the southwest. Hard as it is to believe,
a great inland sea once covered these sands. It was a holy reserve of
sacred crocodiles, symbolized by the god Sobek.
We’ll visit
the temple of Kom Oshim, drive over ancient lake beds, and alongside
the waters of today’s Fayoum Lake to reach the fishermen’s
village of Chak Chouk. There we’ll stop for a lunch of fish caught
fresh that morning. There will be time to wander the village lanes and
discreetly watch the everyday activities of baking flatbread, irrigating
crops from the lake’s waters, and bringing in the catch. We’ll
also include the craft and pottery museum where the best works of local
artisans are on display.
Then it’s
into our four-by-fours again, for an off-road adventure! We’ll
head alongside and across desert washes, between dunes, and over ancient
lake beds for 35 kilometers to the Valley of the Whales. Incredibly,
these great mammals once thrived in waters surrounded by sands. We’ll
stop and gaze in amazement at their fossilized remains alongside smaller
sea creatures that remain in stone.
In the evening,
you’ll return to your hotel in Cairo.
Price includes:
Land transportation
in air-conditioned four-wheel-drive Toyota Land Cruiser
Services of driver and English-speaking driver
Lunch at seafood restaurant
Entry fees
Rate
per person in double in USD $ :
Minimum
2 passengers is required = 285 $ per person
A
note about meals
Please note that some meals will be served in local desert style. For
your Egyptian breakfast, expect orange juice, tea and coffee, marmalade,
a selection of two cheeses, beans, and eggs.
A picnic lunch will typically include either tuna, sausage, sardines
or beef with a green salad or a salad of cheese, tomato and fruit.
For dinner, expect a beef or chicken main coarse, with vegetable and
rice or pasta.
Please inform your hosts in advance of dietary requests.
Why
book with us ?
For
travel during Easter, Christmas or New Year's, weeks a 10 percent supplement
applies.
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The
Great Pyramid of Cheops . . . Are You Up to the Adventure?
A journey into the heart of the Great Pyramid is a real-life Indiana
Jones adventure. But it can also be a taxing and frightening one.
You'll follow claustrophobic passages cut into the heart of the
pyramid, feel the pull of the mass of stone directly above. For
better or worse, you have placed yourself in the hands of the
engineering expertise of the ancients.
As
you continue along the unventilated passages, the oxygen becomes
depleted, the air becomes noticeably warmer and more pungent.
The ascent of steep stairways consumes more energy than you imagined,
and you find yourself short of breath. Lighting is dim, every
footstep must be carefully calculated. Low passageways repeatedly
oblige you to advance while bent down, and your muscles protest.
Where walls disappear into the dark above, you feel wedged into
a shaft. Despite warnings, and your own resolve, claustrophobic
feelings are hard to suppress.
Finally,
you behold the King's Chamber at the heart of the Great Pyramid.
The effort to reach it has made the reward more exhilarating than
you imagined. If only you can face the return.
Is
the King's Chamber for you? If you're not used to bending and
regular exercise, you might find the challenge beyond your capabilities.
Turning back is more difficult the farther you go, and the experience
could leave you aching for days afterwards.
Be
realistic about yourself, your abilities, and your disposition.
And remember that there are many other rewarding sights and adventures
at Giza, without the physical challenge and risks of the King's
Chamber.
The
decision is up to you.
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