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City in Egypt
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Fayum is a city in Lower Egypt to the west of the Nile, 90 km from Cairo.
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Built by the wife of the eighteenth Sultan Qaitbey in the early 16th century. While not at all as impressive as other structures from the same period, it still showcases the historic importance of Fayum.
An agricultural town in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, inhabited until the early 5th century. The dry conditions here are most suitable for the preservation of papyri, which makes Karanis very well known by archaeologists. The papyri collected here are now part of the University of Michigan Papyrus Collection.
متحف كوم أوشيم
Archaeological museum displaying ancient relics from Crocodilopolis and the Faiyum Oasis archaeological region
النزله
دير الملاك غبريال بجبل النقلون (دير الملاك بو خشبة)
Waterfalls, round hills, springs area, lakes, bird watching.
A pyramid associated with Senusret II, who ruled Egypt between 1897 BC and 1878 BC, during the Twelfth Dynasty.
Forgotten in the countryside more than 30 km northeast of Fayum, Meidum, a step pyramid, is one of the earliest pyramids ever built by the ancient Egyptians. The best way to get to this decidedly hard-to-reach site is perhaps to arrange a taxi in Fayum, or to look for the tours out of Cairo that combine a visit to Meidum with other off-the-beaten-path pyramid fields at Dahshur and Saqqara. No matter how you get there, you can be pretty sure that you will almost have all the site to yourself (along with few other lucky ones, at most).
فندق هلنان اوبرج الفيوم
بانوراما شكشوك
زاد المسافر
Pool and breakfast.
ظلال النخيل قرية تونس
إيكولودج زوارة
By microbus from different regions in Cairo e.g. Ramsis Square and also from different regions in Giza e.g. El-Remaya Square (Shotting Square) and El-Moneeb. There are slow trains from Cairo too.
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