Description

Starting in Cairo, we’ll be leaving Egypt’s capital heading south to the Valley of the Whales (Wadi al-Hitan in Arabic), which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the major stories of evolution: the emergence of the whale as an ocean-going mammal from a previous life as a land-based animal. No other place in the world yields the number, concentration and quality of such fossils, as is their accessibility and setting in an attractive and protected landscape.
Leaving the Fayoum Oasis and the Wadi al Hitan, we enter the Western Desert.

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