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Fayoum · Wadi el-Hitan, Fayoum
The Wadi el-Hitan museum
An eighteen-metre skeleton of a legged whale, in a museum buried in the desert.
€€ Mid-range
Egypt's first museum devoted to fossils, half-buried so as not to spoil the World Heritage site. It shows the complete Basilosaurus found there — a whale that still had hind legs, evidence of the move from land to sea.
The extra bit
Walk the fossil trail after the museum: the skeletons were left where they were found, on the sand.
Know before you go
A 4×4 is needed for the last kilometres, and the park entry fee comes on top of the museum.
