EL Fayoum
| ONE DAY TRIP Start early morning from Cairo Hotel and visit Temple of Qasr El Saga and the ruins of the ancient city of Dimae. Visit the waterfall at Wadi Raiyan. Lunch-Picnic. |
| Qasr ElSaga. The Golden Fortress, is an unusual middle Kingdom Building situated north of the lake, half way up the Escarp- ment, At one time thenorthern shore of lake Qarun stood close to the temple. |
Dimeh al -Siba (Soknopaiou Nesos) Dimeh of the Lious, was a Ptolemaic Cty believed to be Founded by Ptolemy ll in the third Century B.C. on a site That shows evidence of habitation from the Neolithic period. In Ptolemaic times it was at the shore of much larger lake, nestled at the edge of Moeris Bay and the beginning of the caravan routes to the Western Desert. |
| Wadi Rayyan. The Bedouin believe Wadi rayyan was named after a king who is buried With all his gold and riches somwhere in the wadi , a myth similar to the Qarun myth of nearby Fayoum . This has made Wadi Rayyan the object of Scores of treasure hunters. Arab historians credit the to that. |
