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Enjoy special Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan 2024/2025, Start your exciting adventures in Fayoum Governorate and enjoy the picturesque nature and wonderful tranquility in Wadi El Hitan (Whale Valley) in Fayoum. Wadi El Hitan is one of the best tourist destinations in Egypt and is considered a beacon for camping and desert lovers. Enjoy visiting the Wadi El Hitan Museum, where you can enjoy viewing fossils of whales that became extinct millions of years ago. During Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan, prepare to experience the Bedouin base, Bedouin tea, and grilling over the fire, and do not miss seeing the unique sky view that will simply enchant you.
A Brief about Wadi El Hitan
It is an area for fossils in the northwest of Wadi El Rayan Reserve, dating back to about 4 million years. These fossils contain fossilized skeletons of primitive whales, shark teeth, shells, and other marine animals, which are considered an open museum. There is also a fossilized shura plant inside soft rocks.
The importance of Wadi El-Hitan is due to it being a natural preserve for endangered animals such as the white gazelle, the Egyptian gazelle, the fennec fox, the sand fox, the wolf, and many migratory birds such as ducks and quails, as well as various types of rare migratory birds and others, in addition to wild plants such as reeds, gourds, halfa, and others.
The Wadi El-Hitan region is characterized by a unique environmental system in terms of the presence of wetlands, geological structures, water springs, and rare fossils. There is also a large group of whale skeletons, numbering 406 skeletons, including 205 complete skeletons dating back 40 million years, in addition to the presence of many animals and fish. Others, such as: sharks, bony fish, mermaids, and dolphins.
This region is considered one of the most beautiful parts of the world due to the presence of small sand hills and rocky outcroppings of sandstone of various shapes, which gave the region this global importance.
If you are a fan of the desert atmosphere, camping, astronomy and photography, be sure that this is your opportunity to Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan, as you will enjoy a special Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan 2024/2025. We promise you a different and joyful time full of unforgettable events.
Wadi El Hitan is one of the most beautiful places in Egypt and closest to the hearts, which is located in the Western Desert in the Wadi Al-Rayyan Reserve, as we mentioned before. Wadi El Hitan is classified as a World Heritage Site and was designated by UNESCO in 2005 as a World Heritage Area for whale skeletons.
The most important tips that you should follow before Going For Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan
Complete skeletons of whales were discovered in Wadi El Hitan. They lived in the region that in the distant past was part of a large ocean (the Teth Sea) that included North Africa before the waters dried up approximately 40 million years ago. Many whale skeletons have been discovered, such as archaeocyte whales, in addition to more than 300 fossilized whales, and many marine fossils have been discovered that can be seen in the reserve’s open museum.
During Your Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan, the tour guide will explain to you the museum’s exhibits, then you can visit the screening room where a 12-minute documentary is shown, explaining in Arabic and English how the fossils were discovered and extracted and the history of these fossils.
Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan 2024/2025
Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan Reserve is characterized by its tranquility and picturesque nature that enchants everyone who visits it. Camping is a recreational activity in which participants leave the areas where their homes, urban areas, and the city are located and enjoy the natural scenery that surrounds them from everywhere.
Night Camping in Wadi EL Hitan is one of the basic factors that helps an individual to become self-reliant and work within one team, and the term camping does not apply to individuals who camp only for fun.
Here are some steps for a safe camping trip
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Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan FAQS:
Wadi Al-Hitan is a tourist area located in the Egyptian Western Desert, 40 kilometers away from Wadi Al-Rayyan Reserve in Fayoum Governorate. The valley can be reached via an unpaved road.
Yes, it is possible to visit Wadi Al-Hitan in the summer, as tourists come there every summer to see the Milky Way and the stars.
This remote area is characterized by dry weather and a pristine, secluded environment, allowing for clear viewing of galaxies and stars at night.
Yes, the stars and planets can be viewed from Wadi El Hitan.
In Wadi El Hitan, you can enjoy the best Night Camping in Wadi El Hitan 2024/2025 experience in the lush desert, where there is peace and relaxation away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and see whale skeletons preserved in the Wadi El Rayan Reserve in Fayoum.
It takes a 3-hour drive to reach the valley from Cairo, and there are modern facilities, hotels and camping sites.
Wadi El Hitan is one of the areas where there is no coverage of mobile phone networks, so it is not possible to contact anyone, and in isolated areas there is no source of electrical power, so you must prepare batteries, flashlights, and a power bank before traveling to Wadi Al-Hitan.
