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Whale Valley Fossil Safari: Wadi El Hitan

Whale Valley Fossil Safari: Wadi El Hitan

40-million-year-old whale skeletons, in the middle of the Egyptian desert.

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📍 Fayoum, Wadi El Hitan

About this tour

Wadi El Hitan — the Valley of the Whales — is Egypt's first UNESCO natural World Heritage site, and it earned that status for something genuinely strange: the fossilized skeletons of some of the earliest whales, animals still carrying the vestigial legs of their land-dwelling ancestors, scattered across open desert 40 million years after they died. A small fossil museum on site explains what you're looking at before you walk out among the skeletons themselves.

Highlights

  • ✦Fossilized whale skeletons in situ
  • ✦Wadi El Hitan Fossil & Climate Change Museum
  • ✦Egypt's first UNESCO natural World Heritage Site

Included

  • ✓Hotel pickup and return
  • ✓Private 4x4 vehicle
  • ✓Private guide
  • ✓Entrance fees
  • ✓Bottled water

Not Included

  • ✕Lunch
  • ✕Tips
  • ✕Personal spending

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