Qarun Lake, also called Birket Qarun, is a large saltwater lake in the Fayoum Oasis, about 80 km southwest of Cairo. It's the remnant of the ancient Lake Moeris, once part of a freshwater system...
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Key Takeaways Wadi El Rayan was established as a protected area in 1989 and covers about 1,759 square kilometers. It consists of an Upper Lake and a Lower Lake, connected by Egypt's only waterfalls....
Discover Fayoum City: Egypt's Natural and Cultural Gem Fayoum City is an oasis region about 100 kilometers (roughly a two-hour drive) southwest of Cairo, built around Lake Qarun, the waterfalls of...
Discover the Timeless Beauty of the Temple of Kalabsha Standing proudly on the banks of Lake Nasser In Africa, the Temple of Kalabsha is one of Egypt’s most fascinating Nubian monuments. This...
Lake Nasser Ruins The Lake Nasser Ruins are a group of ancient Egyptian and Nubian temples that were relocated to the shores of Lake Nasser after the 1960s construction of the Aswan High Dam...
The Nubian Museum in Aswan is a UNESCO-recognized museum that opened in 1997 to preserve Nubian culture and history after the construction of the High Dam flooded much of ancient Nubia. It holds...
Lake Nasser is a reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan formed in the 1960s when the Aswan High Dam was built across the Nile. It is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, holds...
The Nubian Village is a cluster of Nubian communities on the Nile's west bank near Aswan, reachable by motorboat or felucca from the Aswan Corniche. It preserves the culture of the Nubian people,...
Edfu Temple is a well-preserved temple dedicated to the falcon-headed god Horus, built between 237 and 57 BC on the west bank of the Nile between Luxor City and Aswan City. Its Ptolemaic-era pylons,...