Hawara Pyramid
The mud-brick pyramid of Amenemhat III, the site of Herodotus's Labyrinth and the cemetery of the Fayoum portraits.
Fayoum
Karanis (Kom Aushim)
A Greco-Roman farming town on the edge of the Fayoum, with crocodile-god temples and the houses where thousands of papyri were found.
Medinet Madi (Narmouthis)
The only well-preserved Middle Kingdom temple in Egypt, approached by an avenue of lions and sphinxes in the southern Fayoum desert.
Qasr Qarun (Temple of Sobek at Dionysias)
A late Ptolemaic temple of the crocodile god on the western edge of the Fayoum, with dark corridors and a rooftop view.
Tunis Village Pottery
The Fayoum village transformed by a Swiss potter into Egypt's pottery capital — workshops, a pottery school and lake views.
Wadi el-Hitan (Valley of the Whales)
A UNESCO desert valley of 40-million-year-old whale skeletons with legs — and a museum of fossils and climate change.
Wadi el-Rayan Waterfalls and Magic Lake
Egypt's only waterfalls between two desert lakes, dunes and the colour-changing Magic Lake in the Fayoum's protected area.
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