Dakhla

The Dakhla Oasis lies to the northwest of Kharga and is also about 310 km to the southeast of Farafra. This oasis consists of 14 settlements and has a population of about 70,000 people. Dakhla is the farthest oasis out of Cairo and is considered one of Egypt's most beautiful oases.

Dakhla sits in a depression surrounded by pink cliffs. There are about 30,000 acres of cultivated land. Most of its 70,000 or so residents are farmers who constantly fight the battle of the dunes that threaten their fields and orchards. The fields and gardens are filled mostly with mulberry trees, date palms, figs and other citrus fruits. Dakhla has retained most of its culture and charm even though it has increased in size by about double and government funding and technical training has revitalized the economy. Dakhla is the only place in Egypt where new water wheels which are driven by buffaloes are constructed. They are made of palm timber and clay jars and are called saqiyas. The oasis is connected to Kharga by a 120 mile (200 km) road that has buses running daily.

Research has found that the Oasis has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and that there was once a huge lake here. There are neolithic rock paintings that indicate that the lake was frequented by elephants, buffaloes and ostriches. As the lake dried up, the inhabitants migrated to the Nile valley and were probably some of its first settlers.

Dakhla Oasis is dominated on its northern horizon by a wall of rose-Colored rock. Fertile cultivated areas growing rice, peanuts and fruit are dotted between sand dunes along the roads from Farafra and Kharga in this area of outstanding natural beauty. The capital, Mut, named after the ancient goddess of the Theban Triad, houses the Museum of the Inheritance, a traditional house, with an intricate wooden combination lock. Rooms, with sculpted clay figures, are arranged to show different aspects of Dakhlan culture and family life. Mut is probably the most "tourist friendly" village in the Dakhla Oasis and does have some accommodations and amenities in that regard, including a number of hot sulphur pools. It has winding streets around old mud-brick houses, and there is an old citadel which is the remains of the old town. There is also a medieval Islamic cemetery on the outskirts of the village.

Al-Kasr, about 35 km. from Mut, was originally a Roman settlement which later became the medieval capital of Dakhla. The old town is a labyrinth of mud-walled alleys narrowly separating houses with elaborately- carved wooden lintels. It is little changed from medieval times. With a population of around 700, the town was built from the it's Roman ruins and has narrow covered streets. There are 54 lintels, some dating from the Ottoman and Mamluk era which adorn the old houses, one of which dates to about 924 AD.

There is also an Ayyubid mosque. It has a three-story mud-brick minaret, 21 meters high, and wooden lintels decorated with inscriptions from the Koran at the entrances. The local madrassa has been renovated, along with an old house which are open to tourists. Climb to the rooftop of the 10th century madrassa (school) for wonderful views of the surrounding area. Bir al-Gabel, a palm-fringed salt lake where you can camp and picnic, is on the road back to Mut.

Other local sites of interest include a pottery factory and an old corn mill. Mud bricks are still made in an ancient manner and there is a foundry where men still work mettle using bellows flamed fires.

Other day trips from Mut could include the 1st-century al-Muzawaka tombs and Deir al Hugar.

Al Muzawaka tombs are located 35 km away, they date back to the Pharaonic period. The most important are the rock hewn tombs of Pelusis and Petosiris. While the tombs are decorated in traditional Egyptian fashion, Petosiris is dressed as a Greek, and there is a bull on the ceiling from the Persian Mithras cult.

Deir El hagar (Monastery of the Rock) a temple which was originally dedicated to Amun and his wife Mut and has inscriptions representing religious life. It was later rebuilt by the Romans and it is one of the few Roman ruins in the area. It has been damaged by an earthquake but is said to have been recently restored. It was built during the rule of Nero (45-68 AD).

After exploring the temple, bathe in the hot sulphur spring nearby.Visit Bashendi to see Roman tombs and a factory where carpets are still woven with scenes of Dakhlan life. Bashendi is a village of Pharaonic design located about 40 km. east of Mut. It hosts an lslamic cemetery as well as Roman tombs, the most significant being the Tomb of Kitnes.

At nearby Balat village, a trading post with ancient Nubia, archeologàts are still uncovering dozens of 6th dynasty mastabas. Balat is a small village about 22 miles east of Mut in the Dakhla Oasis and was an important Old Kingdom town. Nearby is the Al-Adaba tombs and Ain Asil. Most notable are the five mastabas, which were discovered during a sandstorm. The best of these is that of governor Medunefer who served during the rule of Pepi II, where funeral artifacts, including gold jewelry was found. The village of Balat itself is picturesque and little changed from medieval times.

Dahab

About 81 km north of Sharm El Sheikh, lies Dahab , one of the most beautiful beaches in all Sinai because of its gleaming sand, clear waters and colorful marine life.

This pearl of the gulf actually consists of two villages, the Bedouin village of Assalah is the southern half, with the business and administrative center of Dahab to the north. Dahab means 'gold' in Arabic.

In Sinai it means golden sands, turquoise sea and off-beat cafe life.

It is a focus of tourism development, with swaying palms, fine sand and wonderful snorkeling opportunities.

Dahab has excellent hotel accommodations, but also affords less expensive housing in the village, or camping About 5 miles from town is the famous Blue Hole, for diving.

Towards the Israeli border is the Island of Coral, where the Crusaders built a fort.

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Travel EG Clients Reviews and recommendations

Over our working years, we have never thought of listing what our Customers saying about our travel service,
As we just been working with a principal and goal of offering the Best value Travel service as much as we could
Simply because we believe that’s the people who work in the Travel career, they had to do all them possibility to suite up them clients more then earning money as tourism originally is the industrial or hospitality and service, beside most of the travelers traveling to a new country they building up them memorial ideas about this country based on the people who will meet up with and run them trip in this country,
So its more then just having a vacation or just touring a country
It's more to be for us representing our Country Egypt, a real duty to show the country and the people of Egypt in a proper way as we do love Egypt more then just earning our living by selling tours
This way we always make sure that’s we will present Egypt the Responsible way,
More then just making an ordinary trip

Below you will find just a few of the comments we have had from the hundreds of people who travel with us every year.

Responsible Travel

At Travel EG Tourism is a joy of discovering new places that’s can be fun Adventure and culture learning in every place we explore during our visit and the human side is the most effected item in this travel experience as we try all our possibility to make the visit in Egypt a lifetime experience showing the culture of the real Egyptian people

Personalized Service! We are with you all the way from the moment you submit an inquiry form through our website. Ensuring you that you’re Egypt or Jordan tour is as worry-free as possible. AT Travel EG Our travel consultants are knowledgeable and patient in designing the perfect itinerary for you that’s match what you have dream of for your Holiday in Egypt. All of our tour packages and Holidays can be customized according to your special needs. For most of the travelers, we provide private tours. you are the boss to decide when to go and what to do.

Experienced Friendly Staff! Our friendly and attentive crew will always be in contact with you to providing you all the means of comfort and information so that you can experience a more relaxing time during your stay in Egypt till the last day of departure.

VIP Travel Service at Travel EG All of Our Guests are VIPs! We provide VIP treatment for all of our travelers. We adhere to the highest standards of professional travel services and support. Our main aim is to delight every guest, every time, through outstanding personalized service! Our online travel consultants and Operators will be with you from the very first e-mail message to the moment you return home. We are dedicated to meeting the client’s wishes and from customer feedback, are continuously evaluating how we can enhance our service.

Knowledgeable Tour Guides! Travel EG Egypt Tours and Holidays has a strong and stable cooperation with local tour guides. Most guides are mature and with an amazing graciousness, patience, and wealth of knowledge. Travel with our tour guides will make your visit to Egypt even more meaningful and enjoyable.

Transportation! We use a mix of local and private transportation including trains, buses, cars, jeeps, camels, horses, quad bike, feluccas, and cruise ships – to vary your journey each day.

Responsible Coach Drivers! We offer comfortable buses coaches with responsible drivers. Professional, courteous and patient, our drivers fully understand there is nothing more important than safety and time.

Ease of Accommodations! We chose the best Quality hotels await your stay – and we can easily upgrade your hotel category upon request as well as arrange additional nights, if you choose to extend your stay.

Fun and Unique Optional tours! We offer a variety of optional tours in each city that are always available for our guests to assure them the most pleasant stay in Egypt. Sail at sunset on a felucca or take a day trip to Alexandria or the Western Oasis, spend a relaxing and entertaining evening on a dinner Nile river cruise with Belly dance and folkloric show or enjoy the Sound & Light show at the Pyramids plateau or visit Abu Simbel by flight and much more.

Our Team:

We have learned from the years of experience, that’s the key of success on any trip is the co operation of the tour guide and the local representative,

And we are extremely proud of our organization and our stuff, which we consider them as our company main asset.

They all have years of experience with one goal and target in mind and that’s making your holiday in Egypt a lifetime experience.

Our History

At the End of October 2000 From a small hotel office in down town Cairo start the idea of building up a website for selling tours to backpackers students and budget travelers, 3 young active fresh graduate from different universities Samuel, Shady and Ash were working during the past few years in Cairo hostels and hotels gain an experience of arranging trips accommodation Nile Cruise to young budget travelers , Them dream is to build up a great name for them tiny small company that’s were just build by creating an extra ordinary package holidays , chosen the best hotels to accommodate them quests , hiring up the best knowledge tour guide and Egyptologist , Ahmed Yasser a fresh graduate Egyptologist tour guide join the team a few weeks later Stuart an English Designer Join the team,

2001 –

Garden City House: we got our 1st Contract to do the Adverting and Marketing for Small hotel in Cairo, and were our first hotel Management in Cairo

Los Amigos Budget Tours: our first company set up served the backpackers and student travelers offering budget holidays and tour packages in Egypt that’s suit the Need of travelers on budget that’s gain a great name in the field of budget holidays maker, the name were our Motto as young operator arranging tours to young travelers and the travelers who been on our tours in Egypt from around the world became more Los Amigos then just a guest

Hostel World: we were the First agent in Egypt for hostel world, and been proud that’s we had successful bookings with Hostel World Ireland

New Garden Palace: after the successful in mange the marketing for our first hotel in Cairo, we gain other contract with Garden Place running the Marking and Booking for the Hotel

2002 –

Shades Of Egypt Tours: after the successful year we had from selling our budget package holidays we think to move forward to better value holidays in Egypt, as our young traveler seen our travel service in Egypt they Recommend us to them Families and Relative that’s request a different style of Accommodation and tours package so we made shades of Egypt for the middle age travelers that’s enjoy more Nile Cruise and staying in a better level of accommodation that’s match them taste

El Tabia Hotel Hurghada: after been successful in managing the hotel bookings in Cairo Hotels, we gain a new contract with el Tabia hotel to Marketing and Advertising the Hotel Beside the Hotel Bookings

2003 –

Cartouche Travel: Luxury vacations and holidays were been provide by cartouche travel from the top 5 stars Nile Cruises and hotels and private transportation were served to many travelers were requesting them holidays in Egypt to be at the Luxury accommodations, beside that’s Cartouche travel Operate and served many Egyptologist worldwide in arranging the holiday in Egypt its became more Egyptologists Group Specialists

Pack2Egypt Travel: start as an idea for offering short trips and day tours to budget travelers planning them holidays in Egypt

Hostel Bookers: we became agent for hostel bookers UK for our Hotels in Cairo and Hurghada

2004 –

One World Tours: with the growing up and the successful we made over the last few years we have made OWT to hold and Manage all kinds of Booking and registered in United Kingdom as our first International Company abroad, As plenty of Booking come up from The British Market and became very Popular in United Kingdom we had the honor of organizing the Trip for The United kingdom Ambassador family in Egypt, as well serving many other diplomat from other embassies around the world as we take care of every small details to make the holiday in Egypt a lifetime journey that’s unforgettable experience visiting the land of the pharaohs, at the same year we had the opportunity to arrange the Accommodation Transportation and Safaris for the First TV Show for the Irish TV ( Hector San Afraic )

2005 –

Goba Tours With all the Successful year of Tourism we had to move to a bigger Office in Cairo, and hire more employee to arrange the Booking so we moved to our new Office in Goba Down Town licensed by the Egyptian Travel Agency 546 and Member of ETAA since 1983

Bukima Adventure Travel : at the summer of 2005 we start Co-operation With Bukima Travel UK , the company used to arrange overland Trips in Africa and middle East , as some of them crew were old Friends of us , we had successful tours package together under Bukima Gold serve more Australian and new Zealand Quests .

2006 –

With the Increasing of The numbers of quest day after day we think to have our Own Transportation, so we bought our Tourist Vans 2 Toyota Hiace 14 Seats ,1 Hyundai H 1 to serve our quests in Cairo and Aswan

Travel EG come live as a result of the years experience to be the operation management for Holidays and Tours coming from different tour Operators worldwide , start of handling the Transportation and Hotels booking for our guests , at the same time to be the local operator that’s handle and arrange the holidays package for international travelers

Solar Eclipse: we handle The Solar Eclipse 2006 tours in Marsa Matrouh for scientist groups and other travelers were interesting in seen the solar eclipse .

lal Turizm Turkey : start in the Turkish Market with co-operation with the Turkish agency

2007 -

Egyptian Hostel: since the start of our carrier in the tourism hotels management were our first knowledge and we had the idea of having a full information’s of hotels and budget accommodation all in one place , that’s how it come the idea of Egyptian hostel one place for hotel bookings and information

World Travel Market: we had the delight to join the World Travel Market and had the opportunity to be in London and been introduced to new travel companies

Flight Biz Australia: more co-operations in The Australian Market come with our contact in Australia

2008 -

Delta Air Crew: by the year 2008 Delta Air start them own Direct Flights to Egypt, Travel EG had arrange a family trip for some US family and after the tour finish we have received much reccommdation by this family it turn up that the father is from Delta air Carbine crew and base on his words we arrange the day trips to lots of Delta Air crew who made them stopover in Cairo

European Union Parliament: we had the Honor to arrange the desert safari Expedition from Siwa Oasis to Luxor for The Czech parliament Members in April

2009 Travel Asia Magazine: with the increase of the Asia guests join our tours and enjoy our travel service in Egypt some article were made by our Asian guests recommend us and our service at the Travel Asia Magazine

2010 Bike Tour UK: biking is a great kind of adventure and we had the honor to arranging our first Bike Tour in Egypt between Aswan and Luxor with co-operation with Bike Tour UK

2011 spiritual trips: we had several spirituals guests over the year of our work in the travel industrial mostly were individual travelers, and we had the honor of arranging our first spiritual tours who lead by Uk Spiritual Specialist, it’s a completely different experience for us

2012: Belly Dancing Tour: Belly dancing is an oriental Dance that’s very interesting kind of dancing style from other kind of dancing and many Europeans lately get notice and have the desire to learn more about the belly Dancing, and we had the Honor of arranging our first Belly dancing trip with co-operation with a Belly dancing Teacher, beside shopping for belly dancing costume can be real adventure in khan el khalili bazaar or watching your private tailor making up your belly dancing costume

2014: Dolphin Trips: a new experience we learned along our travel work, that’s Dolphins can heal humans as our Dutch operator saying, and we had the delight to arranging our first dolphin trip in Marsa alam by boat at summer 2014, by spending 6 days in boat and waiting to see the dolphins when they show up and taking the chance to swim with the dolphins and enjoying the real nature way of healing.

2015: Real Estate in Egypt, with the increase of the devolving industrial we start a new department specialist for rental homes apartment and villas in Luxor and Hurghada and Cairo to provide our clients with the best location and facilities for them stay in Egypt

About Travel EG Egypt tours and Holidays

Specialized incoming operator in Egypt Since 1983 During our years of experience in the tourism filed, we have built an excellent name, we are locally owned, and managed hosting a multi culture team of Egyptian and English-speaking tour Operators and Multi languages Tour Guides and Representative s

We know you’ve got things you ‘have dream about for your Holiday in Egypt, places you’d love to see. Cultures and Lifestyle of the People in Egypt you’d love to jump into and adventures to experience the real Life of Egypt and remember forever. We’re here At Travel EG to help you do them, not just dream about them.

At Travel EG We committed to offer best travel services of the highest quality, combining our energy and enthusiasm, with our years of experience in the Egyptian Travel industrial. Our Main greatest satisfaction comes in serving large numbers of satisfied clients who have the joys of experience and inspiration of travel.

Since our start were established in 2006 our online travel website, we have concentrated all our efforts in producing High quality travel services. And responding to all the needs of the times while anticipating the demands of the future. Moreover, we are a company of trust in Egypt, passionate travel specialists who create customized luxury journeys to inspiring destinations. Our tours are completely based around our customer’s interests and schedule. We are a member of ETTA, Egyptian Travel Agents Association. And also, EHA, Egyptian Hotel Association.

Travel EG Egypt tours and Holidays offers flexible budget tours and adapt to last minute changes. Therefore, we focus on the customer’s extraordinary services and satisfaction.

Our aim and mission are to deliver excellent high-quality travel service. Including all kinds of tours, Hotels, Nile cruises, Nile Dahabiya, Desert safari, transportation and all type of tours packages in Egypt with competitive prices.

Our Team:

We have learned from the years of experience, that’s the key of success on any trip is the cooperation of all the travel provider together the tour guides the reservation and the local representative, and we are extremely proud of our organization and our stuff Witch we consider them as our company main asset. They all have years of experience with one goal and target in mind and that’s is making your holiday in Egypt a lifetime experience.

Our Tour Guides:

We have select the Best Tour Guide and the more Knowledge and Experience tour Guides All over Egypt to serve our travelers with quality travel service our tour guide are university graduate up to 20 years’ experience tour leading and guiding, and must be fluent in many languages such as English , Francaise ,Italiano and Espanol

International Associations Membership
- International Air Transport Association (IATA)
- Egyptian Travel Agency Association (ETAA)

Our Travel Services:
- Egypt Entry Visa Issuing.
- Car Rental.
- Multilingual Egyptologist Tour Guides.
- Nile Cruise and Hotel Reservations.
- Airport Services, Meet and Assist.
- Sightseeing daily Tours and Travel Packages
Travel EG with G.T Company – Authorized Travel agent by the Egyptian Tourism Ministry
License No.: 546 and a member of the Egyptian Travel Agents Association (ETAA) since 1983