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Al Fayyum
City in Egypt

Al Fayyum

Faiyum is a city located geographically in Lower Egypt but culturally and politically in Upper Egypt, 100 kilometres southwest of Cairo.

Plan a trip to Al Fayyum→From Al Jiza

In the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location.

Get in

Getting to Al Fayyum

By microbus from different regions in Cairo e.g. Ramsis Square and also from different regions in Giza e.g. El-Remaya Square (Shotting Square) and El-Moneeb. There are slow trains from Cairo too.

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    Fayum
See

Worth seeing

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    Sultan Qaitbay Mosque

    Built by the wife of the eighteenth Sultan Qaitbey in the early 16th century.

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    Medinet Madi Archaeological Park
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    Karanis

    An agricultural town in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, inhabited until the early 5th century.

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    Karanis Site Museum

    Archaeological museum displaying ancient relics from Crocodilopolis and the Faiyum Oasis archaeological region Hanging Mosque.

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    Lake Qaroun
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    Temple of Qasr Qaroun

    Sun-Thu 08:00-16:00, Fri-Sat 08:00-18:00.

Eat

Where to eat

You can find local food of Fayum in one of the Eco lodges in Tunis village and the restaurants in lake Qaroun. Fast food is also served in all the restaurants of Fayum city,

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.