Wadi Hitan is about 3 hours drive southwest of Cairo on the fringe of the Western Desert. It is an amazing place and once there it is easy to forget the hustle and bustle of Cairo. We left Cairo about noon and after a leisurely trip arrived as the desert heat was dropping with the sun. We wandered around the Miocene graveyard littered with monstrous bones of distinctly recognizable whales. We did not see many of the relic hind limbs which suggests these mammals returned to the waters. But don't read about it here, Google a little more information and go there to see it first hand . It is well worth it. We camped on site and explored a little more in the soft dawn light and then headed off to the nearby Roman ruins.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Wadi Hitan
