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Overnight White Desert Safari Camping from Cairo

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Overnight White Desert Safari Camping from Cairo
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Overview

Get out of the city and into the desert on this overnight trip. Explore the capital city of Bawiti, Bahariya, with its lush palm groves and giant dunes. See hot springs, the Black Desert, Crystal Mountain, Agabat Valley, and White Desert National Park. In the evening, enjoy a barbecue dinner under the stars before drifting off to sleep in your tent. After breakfast in the camp, head back to Cairo.

How this compares

Cairo · 1478 Desert & Adventure · typical ~3,766 EGP · 6,678 EGPpremium pick

Highlights

  • Hotel pickup

What's included

  • Dinner
  • Lunch
  • Breakfast
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off in Cairo or Giza (Centrally located points)
  • Bedouin Driver in the desert
  • Transfer to and from Bahariya by sharing bus / car
  • 4x4 travel from Bahariya to the White and Black Deserts and back - sharing other tourists
  • 1 night of accommodation in a tented desert camp (own tent)
  • Any additional services and visits not mentioned in itinerary
  • Entrance fees to sites listed in itinerary
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Personal items
  • Gratuities
  • Any transfer to Cairo airport or any other far location at the end of the tour
  • Any food special requests will be subject to availability, please tell us upon arrival there
  • The extra charge of Pick up from the hotels and points outside the city
  • Starting from 7 Years old the child will be charged as an adult in the desert trip
  • The tour itinerary may be changed without prior notice due to bad weather or security restrictions.

Itinerary

  1. 1
    Bahariya Oasis Guide
  2. 2
    White Desert

Frequently asked questions

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Can I cancel my booking?
Yes — you can cancel free of charge up to 24 hours before it starts.
What's included?
Dinner · Lunch · Breakfast · Hotel pickup and drop-off in Cairo or Giza (Centrally located points) · Bedouin Driver in the desert · Transfer to and from Bahariya by sharing bus / car · 4x4 travel from Bahariya to the White and Black Deserts and back - sharing other tourists · 1 night of accommodation in a tented desert camp (own tent)

Reviews (93)

4.7
★★★★★
Based on 93 verified reviews
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Fabio_P
★★★★
Oct 2022

What an experience. Definitely worth doing. It's a very long 2 days that lie ahead. Tons of driving. Make sure you have a lot of data and battery life on your phone. Our driver 'Miguel ' was very friendly and funny .... also a very slow driver. Would have been a lot easier if he drove faster than 80kms. White and black deserts we're wonderful. Definite see. Camp set up was in the white desert and was literally a bunch of mats on the ground and one wall. It's sleeping under the stars. Blankets/sleeping bags are provided. No pillows! Food was delicious and abundant. Hand cooked by Miguel on site

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Lauren_M
★★★
Sept 2022

So, overall we had a really good time, the white desert itself was absolutely magnificent and really was the highlight of my trip to Egypt! It was really excellent and one of the most impressive landscapes I have ever encountered! Why 3 stars instead of 5? We requested vegetarian food and were served chicken for lunch, that wasnt the end of the world. The transport was absolutely appalling. The trip both to and from Cairo to the oasis hotel was really bad. We were jammed into an extremely uncomfortable car and the driver on both trips was on the phone non stop to someone makeing loud calls, ou

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Nedim_T
★★★★★
Sept 2022

An unforgetabble tour. Everything was perfectly organized. Our guide Bedra was very kind and helpful. Scenery of the white desert - unique. Dinner in the desert and sleeping under the open sky was a reallly unique experience. Highly recommendations.

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Jagdish_M
★★★★★
May 2022

If you like the outdoors, or an adventure, this is a must-do trip, and probably the highlight of our 2 weeks to Egypt. The organisers were great, and our Bedouin guide who took us into the desert, Mahmoud, was simply the best. He prepared a dinner better than what we ate at high end restaurants in Cairo, all on his own using the desert campfire and simple ingredients. The desert atmosphere is surreal - from the black volcanic desert to the white desert with its unwordly rock formations. The silence and solitude of the desert, the opportunity to see a clear night sky (we saw Mars, Venus, conset

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Martine_R
★★★★★
Apr 2022

Simply amazing and a must to do :) Our guide was always super helpful and dinner that he prepared was delicious.

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mel_Q
★★★★★
Apr 2022

Out of all the things we did in Egypt, this was the highlight. Words honestly cannot do justice to the experience. Absolute silence in the desert, incredible sights and to top it all off, sleeping under the stars was just sublime. Our keep driver and tour guide Miguel was great. A veteran jeep driver who drove the Land Rover through extremely difficult terrain with ease, cooked us an incredible meal and made us feel safe throughout the whole trip. 10/10 would recommend!

6,678 EGP/ per person
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