3-Day Private Eco-Friendly Tour Fayoum Oasis

Explore Fayoum through the eyes of our local ambassadors, homestay with villagers, offering them an income-earning opportunity during your stay in Tunis village, and visit the pottery school established by a Swiss lady named Eveline more than 40 years ago and has gained an international reputation around the world. From there, you will set out on a safari trip to the desert to visit Magic lake, the palaces of the Arabs with sandboarding nearby, the Wadi El-Hitan, the whales petrified for millions of years, and meet our homestay owner Hajj Abdullah has been hosting guests in his home for seven years, and with the growth in requests every year, he extended other rooms until it reached twenty rooms and a swimming pool. However, he still serves the guests himself, his youngsters and his wife as in the past.

Itinerary

Day 1: Cairo Fayoum With Local Driver

Stop At: Tunis, Tunis, Al Fayyum Governorate
Cairo - Tunis Village, Fayoum
Our local ambassador from Tunis village, Fayoum, will send a local driver to pick you up from your hotel and drive you to Tunis Village in Fayoum. You'll be there in about two hours;


Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Fayoum Pottery School, Qaroun, Medina Of Tunis, Tunis, Al Fayyum Egypt
After arriving at Tunis Village, you'll take a short walk to the Pottery School on foot.


Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Qaroun, Qaroun, Al Fayyum Governorate
Walk to Qaroun Lake
Our goal is to organize an authentic and sustainable trip that helps the locals to develop their income and improve their standard of living. We will direct you to some daily activities that you book directly with these villagers with the help of your homestay owner.

1) Ride a sailing boat trip with local villagers on Lake Qarun. 300 EGP ca 15 $ up to 6 Person
2) Horse riding on the lake for the same price per person
Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Set El-Beet - ست البيت, Qaroun, إبشواى، Faiyum Governorate 2822622, Egypt
Set El Bait Restaurant "Housewife" is one of the most famous restaurants in Tunis village, but the most important thing is its inspiring story. We learned the story from her son, who is helping to run the project. He told us that she was preparing food for her husband in the field, and when the tourists began to come to the area, they were very impressed with the taste of the food, so her husband set up a hotel and a restaurant for tourists, and she was working there as a master chef.
But unusually for the uneducated village wife, she decided to become independent and open her own business; the restaurant became well-known locally and internationally. You must book 24 in advance from the menu, which we will send to you in English after booking the trip
Duration: 2 hours

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Homestay with Locals

Day 2: Full Day Safari

Stop At: Valley of the Whales (Wadi Al-Hitan), Western Desert, Giza Egypt
Today you can book Jeep with Locals for a full day safari that will and pay the driver directly approx. 85 $ per car in additional 10$ per person for lunch
Your adventure with the 4x4 Jeep starts by driving to Wadi Al Hitan ( whales Valley )ز. The site has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, which was discovered in 1936 and is located 70 km west of the village of Tunis, deep in the Western Sahara. You will find yourself inside an open-air museum and an area filled with fossils dating back 45 million. You will see preserved fossilized primitive whale skeletons, shark teeth, and mangrove shells, Next, you will visit the Fossil & Climate Change Museum, which hosts a variety of whale fossils and skeletons;

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Wadi El Rayan, Al Faiyum Governorate Desert, Faiyum Governorate 2812001, Egypt
Starts drive by jeep to naturally carved rocks surrounding the dunes, similar to elegant Arabian Palaces and then arrives on a rock called Al Safina, " the Ship "before we continue our journey on the Majic lake to bathe in the lake and prepare a BBQ lunch. After lunch, we start sand boarding, visit Wadi El Rayan to watch the sunset in the desert, and then return to Tunis Village.
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
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Accommodation included: Homestay With Locals

Day 3: Tunis Village -North of Lake Qaroun -Cairo

Stop At: Qarun Lake, Faiyum Governorate 2814001, Egypt
Today you can either Drive back to Cairo or order another day by jeep safari to the northern part of Qaroun lake

Visiting the world's largest petrified forest, situated in the North of Lake Qaroun in Gabal Qatrani.

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Qasr Qarun and Medinet Quta, Near The Village of Qarun, Al Fayyum Egypt
After that, you will visit Dimeh al-Siba Qasr al-Sangha, a Ptolemaic founded by Ptolemy II in the third century BC, and then see The Golden Fortress Qaser Al Sangha is an unusual Middle kingdom; building. Finally, Drive back to Tunis village for a short break before driving to Cairo. You'll be there in about two hours. end of service
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
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No accommodation included on this day.

09:00 AM

Tahrir Square, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Traveler pickup is offered

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.