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A desert depression filled with the Fayoum's drainage water: two lakes and dunes.
FayoumWadi El Rayan
Skeletons of whales with legs, left in the sand exactly where they were uncovered.
FayoumWadi El Hitan
A salt lake below sea level, all that is left of the ancients' Lake Moeris.
FayoumLake Qarun
An alabaster cave at the end of a quarry track, opened by a quarry blast.
FayoumBeni Suef
A Ptolemaic temple still standing at the far end of Lake Qarun: rooms, stairs, roof, cellars.
FayoumQasr Qarun
Terraces above Lake Qarun, in the potters' village.
FayoumTunis village, Lake Qarun
Some twenty ceramic workshops in a village perched above the lake.
A lake among the dunes that changes colour with the day's light.
FayoumWadi el-Rayan, Fayoum
Mud-brick guesthouses above the lake, two hours from Cairo.
FayoumTunis and Lake Qarun
Desert, lake and fields seen from above, two hours from Cairo.
FayoumLake Qarun, Fayoum
An avenue of sphinxes and lions in the middle of the desert, almost never visited.
FayoumSouthern Fayoum
An unfinished temple of cyclopean blocks, alone in the desert above the lake.
FayoumNorth of Lake Qarun
An eighteen-metre skeleton of a legged whale, in a museum buried in the desert.
FayoumWadi el-Hitan, Fayoum
Lake fish grilled at the water's edge, two hours from Cairo.
FayoumNorth shore of Lake Qarun
Farm cooking served in the guesthouses, above the lake.
FayoumTunis village, Fayoum
A staging town on the road south, and its roadside grills.
