Excursions from Cairo Fayyum.
Vacation spots in Egypt - the Fayyumsky oasis
The Fayyumsky oasis located in 100 km to the southwest from Cairo, represents the next place where it is possible to distract from city bustle. Though Fayyum-City is not rather attractive, you can reach from its centre a greenish zone for half an hour. Fayyum's irrigation is carried out by means of irrigational channels. It was the big centre at the time of the Average kingdom, Ptolemeev and during the Roman period to what different ruins round it testify. To reach to certain it is possible only on the awkward road through the desert, to others it is possible to reach by the local bus or a share taxi, and then to make pleasant pedestrian walk to the object. Karanis's ruins lie near expensive Fayyum-Cairo.
Pyramids of Egypt in Meyduma
All popular «The failed pyramid» is in Meyduma nearby to El-Vasta. Usually both these vacation spots in Egypt are desert that does sharp contrast with Giza and Sakkara. Both give opportunity for quite good one-day travel, but it is necessary to take with itself food and drink and to leave early in the afternoon. The most quick method to reach Fayyum-City - share taxis from Medan Giza or from Shary Orabi about the station Ramses (2 hours). In Meyduma it is possible to reach a pyramid of Egypt on a share taxi in Egypt from station of El-Vasta which it is possible to reach by the trains going practically each hour from Ramses, stopping in Giza (from where also go some trains) and approximately in an hour and a quarter or an hour and a half pribyvashchy in El-Vasta.
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