Fayyum Description
Fayyum offer may attractions to visitors in the tranquil beauty of its scenery and its remains of the past.

The Fayyum Oasis is in the form of a triangle with rounded corners and its point to the south, extending 40mi/65km from east to Wat its widest part and 30mi/ 50km from north to south. Enclosed by low ranges of hills, it falls gradually from south to north. It is watered by the Bahr Yusuf ("Joseph's Canal"), which leaves the lbrahimiya Canal (originally the Nile) at Deirut, cuts through the hills enclosing the Fayyum in a narrow passage at El Lahun, spreads out over the oasis in many arms and ramifications and finally flows into the Birket Oarun (Lake Qarun), on the northwest edge of the depression. The Fayyum is noted for its
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Hobbies & Activities category: Region with significant interests;  Well, spring, oasis, aqueduct
Tips
ACCESS. By road: 56mi/90km southwest of Cairo (leave on road to Pyramids) and 22mi/35km northwest of Beni Suef; bus services. By rail: Cairo to Medinet el-Fayyum via El-Wasta.
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