Tunis Village in Fayoum
Tunis Village in Fayoum Tunis Village’s Backstory The Tunis Village was founded in the 1960s by two famous Egyptian poets who encouraged locals to become artists, but it is now better known for the arrival in the 1980s of Evelyne Porret, a Swiss woman and potter who opened her own pottery studio with her husband […]
Wadi El Rayan National Park
Wadi El Rayan National Park is one of Egypt’s most famous natural reserves, located less than two hours from Cairo. The natural reserve, which is part of the El Fayoum governorate and about 75 kilometers from El Fayoum city, is named after King El Rayan Ibn El Walid, who lived in the region with his […]
Qarun Lake National Park
Lake Qarun, some 80 kilometers southwest of Cairo in the Egyptian Fayoum region in the Nile Valley, is one of Egypt’s most prized natural monuments and a resource that has aided human civilization for over 8,000 years. It is Middle Egypt’s sole natural modern lake of any size. As a result, it is abundant in […]
