After exploring different areas of the Egyptian Western Desert and organizing several trips to the Gilf Kebir, Jebel Uweinat and The Great Sand Sea, it’s necessary now that we organize expeditions to explore the area of Qattara Depression, which is the largest depression in the world space and the third lowest point from the sea level. While walking down through the depression, which lies about 70 km from the Mediterranean coast, we see many beautiful amazing sceneries, which was created by the wind, as well as the different formation of the geological ages at the edge of the depression where Great Sand Sea meets the Qattara Depression.
It's a new journey to a different destination where it is about time to explore and to enjoy.

Facts about Qattara Depression:

- The largest of its kind.
- The bottom of the continent of Africa.
- The third lowest point on the land in the world.
- 70 km distant from the Mediterranean coast.
- Length 300 km and width 150 km.
- The northern edge of the depression is 350 meters height from the sea surface, forming a wall along the northern edge of the depression.
- The southern side of the depression has almost no edges.
- In the south there are many small depressions that look like followers of the Qattara Depression forming beautiful small water lakes.

Route & Program

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Day 1: Arrival to Cairo

Day 2: Cairo – Al-Alamein – Moghra

Day 3: Al-Alamein – Talh

Day 4: Talh – Kifar Spring –

Mikar Abd El-Nabi – Ain Katarra - Qarra

Day 5: Qarra – Tabagbag –

Siwa (Abo El-Sherouf Spring)

Day 6: Siwa Oasis

Day 7: Siwa – Bahrein – Nawamissa – Sitra – El-Kadi rock formations

Day 8: El-Kadi rock formations – Bahariyah Oases

Day 9: Bahariyah Oases – Cairo

Day 10: Departure

Al- Alamein WWII Museum & Memorial: Al-Alamein takes its name from the twin- peaked hill, Tell al-Alamein, upon which it stands. Until the events of September 1940 to March 1943, when the armies of the Axis and Allied powers fought over North Africa, al-Alamein was only a stop along the modern railroad. But it does have an ancient history. Al-Alamein is the site of the Gaucum of Ptolemy and the Leucasis, Leukasis, Leucapis, or Locabsis of the Romans.

Al- Alamein war museum contains collectibles from "the civil war" and other North African battles. Visitors can also go to the Italian and German Military Cemetery on Tel el-Eisa Hill just outside the town. The German cemetery is an ossuary with the remains of 4,200 German soldiers, built in the style of a medieval fortress. The Italian cemetery is a mausoleum containing many galleries of tombs. Many tombs bear the soldier's name; many are simply marked "IGNOTO", unknown.

There is also a Commonwealth war cemetery with graves of soldiers from various countries who fought on the British side. This has monuments commemorating Greek, New Zealand, Australia, South African and Indian forces.

Moghra: Maghra (Moghra) Oasis Situated in the eastern corner of Qattara Depression, the uninhabited oasis of Maghra is located in a desolate but magnificent stretch of desert. Sand dunes hem in one side, an impassable field of scrub another, and the escarpment of the depression the other two. There is a salt lake and five water wells dug in the 1840s at the behest of Muhammad Ali. The oasis is 34 meters (108 ft) below sea level.

Maghra Oasis comes into view in the depression below, and the first view of Maghra is from the top of the southeastern escarpment.

Kifar Spring & Talh (Acacia Valley): Kifar Spring is a deep water spring located after Talh Valley which is a planted with beautiful Acacia tress. Its known that ancient Egyptians used Acacia in paints.

Ain Qattara & Qarra Oasis: Ain Qattara are very unique water spring, where water is dripping very slowly- Qattara is the Arabic word for dripping Qattara Depression is named after this spring.

Qarra/ Gara oasis sits at the western border of Qattara Depression. It is 16 km (10 miles) long and 8 km (5 miles) wide. Beyond the oasis, dominating the horizon is Gebel Qarn al-Laban, Mountain of the Milky Horns, a white mountain with several out­standing peaks. There are fifteen wells in the oasis, all slightly salty and mostly dug in ancient times when the oasis may have been more prosperous. The depression floor is dotted with sandstone outcrop- pings, many worn away at the bottoms so they look like giant mushrooms. One in particular is called Pharaoh's Rock.

After four years of no rain, in 1982 Qarra, like Siwa, was hit by a two-day rain­storm. At that time the people still lived in their hilltop village. The rain devastated Qarra. Because of the poor roads no one was able to reach the village for more than a week. After the rain the government built new housing for the people on the flat plain below the old village. In 1990, there were fifty-seven houses in the new village. Although there were no hotels and no school, there was a generator that pro­vided electricity.

Siwa Oasis: The remote northern oasis, it's inhabitant of Barber origin an unusual history. It was in the ‘Temple of Oracle’ that Alexander the Macedonian received Ammons blessings to become the greatest man of his time.

Bahariyah Oases: Known as the “Black Oasis”, or the “Black Pearl”, Bahariyah distinguishes itself by lying within a deposit, rich in black quartzite and plenty of hot water springs, making out the unique sight of vivid green fields and a stunning dark glittering landscape. An overwhelming contrast of the yellow desert. 

The Golden Mummies, discovered in 1996. Around 250 mummies dating to several different periods in history. The site dates to Greco-Roman Egypt, where the ruin of a temple to Alexander the Great can be found. It is believed by some Egyptologists that the Greek conqueror passed through Bahariyah while returning from the oracle of Ammon at Siwa Oasis. Excavations of the Greco-Roman necropolis, known as the Valley of the Golden Mummies began in 1996. Approximately thirty-four tombs have been excavated from this area so far.