EGYPT SAFARI

For those who want to explore a new meaning of safari, you have come to the right place. You will discover an adventure you’d never imaged and you will enjoy the Bedouin life in Egypt’s desert with warm feeling and simplicity where you can feel it through the oriental Arabian tents with a live show including; folkloric dance, tambourines, and Arabian horses dances.

You can also enjoy camel trekking for either 1 day or by a safari jeep or on the back of purebred Arabian horses passing by many wonderful dessert formations.

SAFARI TOP DESTINATIONS IN EGYPT

Siwa
The Siwa Oasis is an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, nearly 50 km (30 mi) east of the Libyan border, and 560 km (348 mil) from Cairo. About 80 km (50 miles) in length and 20 km (12 mi) wide, Siwa is one of Egypt’s isolated settlements, with 23,000 people, mostly ethnic Berbers who speak a distinct language of the Berber family known as taSiwit.

Its fame lies primarily in its ancient role as the home to an oracle of Amon, the ruins of which are a popular tourist attraction which give the oasis its name.

Agriculture is the main activity of modern Siwi, particularly the cultivation of dates and olives. Handicrafts like basketry are also of regional importance. Tourism has in recent decades become a vital source of income. Much attention has been given to creating hotels that use local materials and play on local styles.

Kharga

El-Kharga, also known as Al-Kharijah, (meaning the outer oasis) is the southernmost of Egypt’s five western oases. It is located in the western desert (part of Libyan Desert), about 200 km to the west of the Nile valley, and is some 150 km long. It is located in and is the capital of El Wadi El Gedid governorate. This oasis, which was known as the ‘Southern Oasis’ to the Ancient Egyptians is the largest of the oases in the western desert of Egypt and “consists of a depression about 160km long and from 20km to 80km wide.”

Kharga is the most modernized of Egypt’s western oases. The main town is a highly functional town with all modern facilities, and virtually nothing left of old architecture. Although framed by the oasis, there is no oasis feeling to it; unlike all other oases in this part of Egypt.

A regular bus service connects the oasis to the other Western oases and to the rest of Egypt. A railway line Kharga – Qena (Nile Valley) – Port Safaga (Red Sea) has been in service since 1996.

Dakhla
Dakhla Oasis (Transliteration: al-Dākhla; BGN: Al Wāḩāt ad Dākhilah), also spelt Dakhleh and known colloquially as the inner oasis, is one of the seven oases of Egypt’s Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert).

Dakhla Oasis lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km from the Nile and between the oases of Farafra and Kharga. It measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.

Farafrah
The Farafra Oasis is the smallest oasis located in Western Egypt, near latitude 27.06° North and longitude 27.97° East. It is located in the Western Desert of Egypt, approximately mid-way between Dakhla and Bahariya.

Farafra has an estimated 5,000 inhabitants (2002) living within its single village and is mostly inhabited by the local Bedouins. Parts of the village has complete quarters of traditional architecture, simple, smooth, unadorned, all in mud colour. Local pride has also secured endeavours to secure local culture. Also located near Farafra are the hot springs at Bir Setta and the El-Mufid lake.

A main geographic attraction of Farafra is its White Desert (known as Sahara el Beyda, with the word sahara meaning a desert). The White Desert of Egypt is located 45 km (30 miles) north of Farafra. The desert has a white, cream color and has massive chalk rock formations that have been created as a result of occasional sandstorms in the area. The Farafra desert is a typical place visited by some schools in Egypt, as a location for camping trips.

Paris
Paris Oasis (or Baris) is one of the beautiful oasis in the New Valley Governorate located about 90km away from El Kharga Oasis. The most important place to be visited in that area is Roman Temple of Dush that was the cult for Serapis god and the mud-brick fortress and some attractive remains of Coptic and Islamic monuments.

The main economic resources for the oasis are agriculture and the most important agricultural product in the city is dates