• A mud-brick lodge, domes and palms, at the desert's edge.

    Fayoum's eco-lodges

    Mud-brick guesthouses above the lake, two hours from Cairo.

    FayoumTunis and Lake Qarun

    €€€ High endBooking advised
  • The Wadi el-Hitan museum

    An eighteen-metre skeleton of a legged whale, in a museum buried in the desert.

    FayoumWadi el-Hitan, Fayoum

    €€ Mid-rangeHistoric venue