From Cairo: Private White & Black Desert and Bahariya Oasis Safari

Your Experience

A 3-day private White Desert and Black Desert safari from Cairo with transfers, Jeep, guide, meals, and overnight camp.

Getting started

Your experience begins with hotel pickup and drop-off in Cairo, where you meet your private guide and driver. You travel in private air-conditioned round-trip transportation between Cairo and the White Desert, with mineral water provided to keep you comfortable on the journey before the safari starts.

Desert driving and oasis exploration

What to expect

The first stretches of desert introduce you to Bahariya Oasis, its peaceful Date Gardens, and views that open out toward the African Sahara. With your private guide, you explore landmarks like the golden dunes, Salty Lake, Pyramid Mountain, English Mountain, and the volcanic scenery of the Black Desert and El-Marssos Mountain.

Features

• Ride in a Private Jeep for the White Desert safari as your driver handles the desert tracks and shifting sands.
• Follow your guide to El-Hez Village to see its natural cold spring and to Green Spring, a Roman-era natural spring in the desert.
• Take in panoramic views over Bahariya Oasis and the surrounding desert from Pyramid Mountain and English Mountain.

Included here

• Private air-conditioned round-trip transportation and Private Jeep for the White Desert safari are used throughout this phase.
• Entrance fees and a private guide are included so you can access and understand key desert and oasis sites.

White Desert, Crystal Mountain, and Agabat

What to expect

As you move deeper into the Sahara, the landscape shifts from dark volcanic hills to bright rock and sand. You hike around Crystal Mountain, visit the Agabat area, and then reach the New White Desert with its limestone formations shaped by wind and sand.

Features

• Walk around Crystal Mountain to see its sparkling quartz formations up close in their natural setting.
• Explore the surreal Agabat area, where dramatic desert landscapes and sculpted rock valleys create varied viewpoints and photo stops.
• Marvel at the New White Desert’s otherworldly limestone formations that rise from the sand in unusual shapes.

Included here

• Your private guide leads you at each stop, with entrance fees included, so you do not need to arrange permits or tickets on your own.
• Meals, including lunch and dinner, are provided during your time in these desert areas, along with mineral water.

Overnight camp and morning in the Black Desert

What to expect

The day concludes at your overnight camp in the Black Desert, surrounded by volcanic hills and dark sand. After a night under a starlit sky, you wake up in the desert, have breakfast, and prepare for the journey back toward Cairo.

Features

• Stay at an overnight camp in the Black Desert, set amid the region’s volcanic scenery and El-Marssos Mountain.
• Spend time after sunset taking in the clear desert sky and the quiet environment away from city lights.
• Enjoy a simple desert morning before you travel back through Bahariya Oasis and onward to Cairo.

Included here

• Overnight camp in the Black Desert is included as part of the tour, with breakfast provided in the morning.
• Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), mineral water, taxes and service charges are covered before you return with your round-trip transfer to Cairo.

亮点

• [Your guide collects you from your Cairo hotel in a private air conditioned vehicle for the round trip drive to Bahariya Oasis and the deserts.]
• [Travel by jeep across Bahariya Oasis and the Black Desert, then continue into the White Desert to hike near Crystal Mountain and rock formations.]
• [Spend the evening at your Black Desert campsite as meals are prepared for you, unwind under night skies, and rest before more White Desert touring.]
• [After a night at the campsite, wake for breakfast in the desert before your guide returns with the vehicle for the drive back to your Cairo hotel.]