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5 Days/4 Nights Full Board
1st Day
Leave Cairo by Bus at 7A.M. and arrive in Baharia Oasis (400km from Cairo) at 1P.M. After arrival have lunch. Then visit Bir El Ghaba (the forest spring). This is swimming pool sized spring. Perfect temperature for swimming. Take a tour to Baharia Oasis, discover the city and the surrounding area. Dinner at the camp. Enjoy bedouin music at the fire. Overnight at the camp (Bedouin Hotel). Please note: The tap water in the oasis is very ferruginous and smells unusual.
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2nd Day
After hot breakfast leave by 4x4 Jeep. You will enjoy the Black Desert. Visit the small oasis El Haez 56km from Baharia. Have a fresh lunch at El Haez. Continue safari driving through the desert to El Akabat. There you can collect the sandflowers, small stones in unbelievable shapes. Camp at night at Akabat (Sand Flower) Dinner at the camp fire. Enjoy the night under the stars and watch the falling stars (and don't forget to make your wish) |
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3rd Day
After breakfast explore the fantastic sight of the Desert. Lunch at the magic water (roman spring). Drive through roman valley and arrive in the White Desert. Dinner at the camp fire. Camping overnight between the fantastic shaped rocks. |
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4th Day
After breakfast see the rest of the White Desert and arrive in Farafra Oasis (165 km from Baharia). Enjoy swimming in cold and hot springs. You can visit the local Art Museum, then drive to the Western Desert. Camping overnight. Once more you can enjoy the silence and fantastic sight of the stars at nigh |
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5th Day
in the way back to bahariya we will enjay the western desert the sand dunes & we will camp in the western dewasert |
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6th Day
After breakfast we drive back to Baharia oasis. In the way we stop at crystal Mountain, where you can collect crystals as gifts for your friends. Arrive in Baharia at noon. Have lunch and take the bus to Cairo at 3PM. Arrive in Cairo at 7PM. |
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| **Distance Information: Cairo-Baharia: 400 km Baharia-Farafra: 200 km |
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Baharia-Farafra-Dakhla
7 Days/6 Nights Full Board |
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Since all desert safaris are arranged individual for you, the routes described below are only suggestions, which can be extended or shortened according to your personal desires. |
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1st Day
Leave Cairo by Bus at 7A.M. and arrive in Baharia Oasis (400km from Cairo) at 1P.M. After arrival have lunch. Then visit Bir El Ghaba (the forest spring). This is swimming pool sized spring. Perfect temperature for swimming. Take a tour to Baharia Oasis, discover the city and the surrounding area. Dinner at the camp. Enjoy bedouin music at the fire. Overnight at the camp (Bedouin Hotel). Please note: The tap water in the oasis is very ferruginous and smells unusual. |
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2nd Day
After breakfast visit English Mountain where you have a great sight of all the oasis. Then leave off-road through the Black Desert and have lunch there. Drive direction south. Overnight camping in the sand dunes. Dinner at campfire. |
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3rd Day
After breakfast back to the road to El Akabat (The Sand flower). Here we drive off-road through the desert. In El Akabat you can collect small, black stones in unbelievable shapes. Continue off-road to the Magic Spring and have lunch there. Drive into White Desert. Big rocks looking like mushrooms and even more. Overnight camping in this ineffable area. |
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4th Day
See more of the White Desert on the way to Farafra. Enjoy a swim in the warm spring. Before you have lunch, discover the oasis and visit Farafra Art Museum where artist from the oasis show their works. After a while on the road, we reach the great Sandsea, where you have dinner between huge sand dunes at the camp fire. Enjoy once more the silence of the desert an the great star-lit sky. Sure you will see some falling stars. |
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5th Day
Before we reach the road again, you can collect some petrified shells as souvenir. Continue on the road to Dakhla. In the way you see tombs with mummies of the greek-roman period At noon we reach El Qasr, a very old town built of mud bricks. After lunch you may do a camel safari into the surrounding desert (camel safari must be paid extra to the local guide). Overnight in Camp (Bedouin Hotel). |
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6th Day
After breakfast visit Deir-El-Hagar, a egyptian temple built by romans. Drive back to Farafra. Overnight camping in the sand dunes of the Western Desert. |
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7th Day
After breakfast drive through the Western Desert back to Baharia. In the way we stop at Crystal Mountain where you can collect crystals for you friends at home. Have lunch in the small oasis El Haez. In Baharia take a shower and get the bus to Cairo at 3PM. Arrival in Cairo 7PM. |
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**Distance Information: Cairo-Baharia: 400 km Baharia-Farafra: 200 km
Farafra-Dakhla: 325 km |
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