Ecotourism and nature reserves in Egypt

Ecotourism and nature reserves 

Natural reserves in Egypt
And characterized the environment in these reserves abilities and special talents beyond the scenic beauty of the sea and the mountains and the edge of the desert, is scheduled to be eco-tourism will witness the birth of a project of the Red Sea converted to a nature reserve run Bssahelh which extends for more than a thousand kilometers will be the second largest marine protected area in the world has became the establishment of nature reserves and protect international demand because of these natural reserves of importance in maintaining the natural biodiversity of that diversity that keeps the continuity of life on the planet.
There are Egypt (23) protected to date, including a protected valley of the Tigris, which are exposed to attacks and violations threaten its continuation as a nature reserve can not compensate for the unique components in any way.

And include a unique sequence of geological models for the short historical record up to about 600 million years ago and these reserves are: -


Ras Mohammed National Park and the islands of Tiran and Sanafir

Located in South Sinai and away from the city of Sharm el-Sheikh 12 km, and is famous for its coral reefs and colorful fish and sea turtles, birds and mammals and marine animals, one of the most beautiful diving areas in the world.

Zaranik protected marsh Bardawil

Located in North Sinai Governorate on 25 km west of the city of El-Arish and represents one of the main keys to the migration of birds as well as a number of birds, is also characterized by the presence of several environments (regions marshes - sand dunes and Gharwd - wet) land.

Bush protected

Located in the northern Sinai in the sand in the form of tape on the Mediterranean coast of el-Arish and even the international border in Rafah in the east Gharwd, and containing dense spaces and huge numbers of trees Acacia, shrubs and grasses, making it a natural resource for the pastures and woods and shelter for animals and birds and a source of stabilization of sand, water and sand in the soil .

Brigadier protected

Located in the province is on the northwest coast, 3 km west of the city of Alexandria, about 200 km to the east of the city of Matrouh, and feature a vegetable medley of plants medical and wooden plants cover also the types of animals and numbers of birds, insects and snails.

Natural reserves tray

Located in the Red Sea province in the southeastern part of the Eastern Desert and is famous for the differences in environmental regulations and diversity in plants and animals, birds and reptiles.

Saluja and Ghazal protected

Located in the province of Aswan in the course of the Nile River, about 3 km north of Aswan Reservoir and is characterized by vegetation, a shelter for resident and visiting birds and migratory.

St. Katherine Protectorate

Located in South Sinai on a high plateau surrounded by high mountains, one of the most important religious tourism areas where there is the Monastery of St. Catherine and his church and his library, a mosque inside the monastery due to the Fatimid era and the shrine of Nabi Saleh and the Prophet Aaron and Wadi comfort and Wadi forty and the mountains of Moses and Abbas Sefsafa and the highest peak mountain in Egypt (Mount Catherine and a height of 2637 meters), and there are a number of plants, animals and birds.

Gemayel Ostom protected

Located in Port Said governorate at a distance of 7 km west of the city of Port Said on the coastal road, while the tennis Island Lake Manzala is located within a distance of 7 km to the southwest of the city of Port Said, and include Tel tennis archaeological excavations and the effects of the Ayyubid period. And characterized by the presence of a variety of protected ecosystems station for migratory birds and is considered by the types of fish.

Lake Qarun protectorate

Located in the province of Fayoum in the northwestern part of the Wadi El Rayan, one of the oldest natural lakes in the world and the remainder of the old Lake Morris, and the important geological formations and plants a variety of old and fossils such as fossil oldest monkey in the world, also contains the Pharaonic and Roman ruins, and there is the lake a number of fish .

Reserve and Wadi El Rayan

Located in the province of Fayoum in the southwestern part of Fayoum, composed and Wadi El Rayan from the upper lake and lower lake and waterfalls area, which reaches between lakes and the eyes Rayyan south of Lower Lake District Mountain Rayan, a surrounding the eye and the Mount retained near the lower lake features and Wadi El Rayan environment desert full of sand dunes, natural springs and plant life and wild animals as there are types of birds.

Protected Wadi Allaqi

Located in Aswan, 180 kilometers southeast of Aswan, the Valley extends 275 km and an average width of one km and aims to maintain protected genetic resources of plants, animals and birds. Characterized as a protected area for scientific research and there are a number of plants and mammals, also has a number of birds, reptiles and other vertebrates.

Protected valley Assiouti

Located in the province of Assiut, in the southern region of the Delta Valley strange area, and this is considered as a protected plant breeding and propagation of wild animals and plants threatened with extinction. And is characterized by its proximity to protected endangered medicinal and aromatic plants germplasm.

Dome good protected

Located in Giza province on the road to Cairo / Alexandria Desert, and is characterized by a complex geological installed, which is part of the installation of Abu Rawash due to the Cretaceous component of a series of domes and Almqarat. To reserve importance to learners of geology km to the plant Celsola Baku, a dwarf shrub vegetation has pastoral importance.

Petrified Forest Reserve

Located in the Cairo governorate, 18 km east of the city and North Katameya Maadi / Ain Sokhna road. It consists of sedimentary layers of sand, gravel and clay, petrified wood, and these sediments rich in the remains of trunks and stems of huge fossilized trees is about 35 million years old, and is the region's geology impact there is rarely seen in the world.

Cave protected valley puss

Located in Beni Suef province, 70 km south-east of the city built Sopf and characterized by the presence of geological structures known Balsed and stalactites of alabaster formed over millions of years, and due-old to about 60 million years old, The importance of the cave to the scarcity of these natural formations as they represent a great importance for researchers .

Nabq

Located in South Sinai Governorate, in the area between Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh and Wadi or infection, characterized by coral reefs and marine organisms and sea grasses, deserts, and there are a number of animals and migratory birds and resident.

Abu Galoum protected

Located in South Sinai Governorate, on the road between Sharm El Sheikh and Taba area called the Valley Alrsash. Featuring a special protected Btabogervaih where the mountains close to the beach and have a variety of ecological systems of coral reefs and marine organisms and sea grasses, deserts and mountains, which is rich in wild animals, birds and plants, making it a tourist attraction.

Taba protected

Located in the South Sinai governorate in the south-western region of the city of Taba and characterized geological formations and archaeological sites, which up to the age of about 5,000 years, in addition to rare wildlife and landscapes and magnificent traditional heritage of the Bedouin residents. Includes protected geological structures and caves and mountain passes and valleys and a network of some of the natural eye and a number of mammals, birds and rare species of reptiles and plants.

Borollos protected

Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, located northeast Rashid branch relate to the lake across the Nile River Bermbal Canal and the Mediterranean Sea through the strait Borollos and spreads the lake island of about 28, which is the second largest natural lakes in Egypt and the multiple sources of biological diversity. There is a number of lake environments and on the coasts, there are sand dunes, and these environments are considered a natural place for terrestrial and aquatic plants and birds migrans reception.

Reserves Nile River Islands 144 Island

Studies indicate that the Nile River Islands provinces of Egypt different number is (144) island located in 818 villages and the Nag center within the 15 counties and the city of Luxor (Aswan - Qena - Sohag - Assiut - Minya - Beni Suef - Giza - Cairo - Giza - Menoufia - Western - Kafr el-Sheikh - the lake - Dakahlia - Damietta). These islands are distributed from Aswan until Delta Barrages (55 Island), and Rosetta Branch (30 Island), and Damietta Branch (19 Island) The islands area of ​​approximately 155 km 2, and there are those islands organisms from wild animals and plants, which must be preserved.

Protected Wadi Degla

Located in the Cairo governorate east of Maadi in the Eastern Desert, and is one of the important valleys that stretch from east to west length of about 30 km, and this valley sang excavations, and has the Tigris Falls in some places formed as a result of Sacrifice factors and the region a set of caves inhabited by bats. The valley includes a range of animals and species of resident and migratory birds and plant life and is characterized by different types of valley certain geographical nature and aesthetic manifestations of which represents a unique educational and cultural and recreational importance
Ecotourism Fayoum Governorate
Met Fayoum environments natural three kinds (Coastal - Agricultural - desert) together in beautiful harmony on the land of Fayoum ordained so wonderful image is only available in Fayoum, especially if it is in the context of environmental purity and climate and location featured on the itinerary tourist near the capital, with availability traces of ancient civilizations that lived in Fayoum and left their mark on the land since the beginning of creation until now.

Coastal areas

Constitute the coastal environment in Fayoum fundamental attraction for tourism in Fayoum element where coastal areas accounted for 8% of the Fayoum territorial space, characterized by the presence of two lakes, one is Lake Qarun and is one of the natural lakes, which acceded to the World Natural Heritage, and the second lakes and Wadi El Rayan industrial and canal Joseph Sea, Lake, and each of these private lakes and wildlife filled the activity on the population and the types of fishes Dftiha outstanding.

On the coastal environment landmarks


Lake Qarun

20 kilometers from Fayoum, 80 km from Cairo, and is considered one of the ancient natural effects as the last remnant of the ancient Lake Morris and has an area of ​​53 thousand acres and depth ranges between 5 meters in the east to 12:00 in the West, and allow them the opportunity to engage in water sports and fishing and bird watching, as it comes from a group of migratory birds each year, and the most important period for hunting Balsnarh is the period from June to September, and the most important fish species in Lake Qarun (Moosa - Altobar - mullet - Digger - tilapia - bream). . It is located on the coast, the southern range of facilities and tourist villages such as (Auberge Fayoum Hotel - Panorama Hotel Shakshuk - Oasis tourist village - Cafeteria Pearl - Plage cafeteria lake) .. and on the northern coast there and Greek and Roman Pharaonic effects represented in (the palace chapel).




Is a modern artificial lakes with an area of ​​30 thousand acre range, and is considered one of the natural reserves in Fayoum, famous Bashlaladtha natural eyes and plant collections and formations multiple geological, and the most important species of fish that live in them (peel whiteness - whiteness - mullet - tilapia - carp - Alhnchan - catfish) .. as Tamha groups of migratory birds, allowing Sports birdwatching b, the addendum to the mathematics safari .. and can be accessed by (Fayoum - Cairo) double to Shakshuk, then by measuring the coastal deviation left from Tunisia area to lakes and Wadi El Rayan and according to the signs indicative list of the region.



Tourism in Fayoum coastal environment

Met Fayoum environments natural three kinds (Coastal - Agricultural - desert) together in beautiful harmony on the land of Fayoum ordained so wonderful image is only available in Fayoum, especially if it is in the context of environmental purity and climate and location featured on the itinerary tourist near the capital, with traces of ancient civilizations that lived in Fayoum and left their mark on the land since the beginning of creation, and yet provides which allows enjoy especially of tourism, including: - the kinds.


Tourism surveillance of migratory birds.
Bird hunting tourism, according to the rules of the environment.
Balsnarh fishing tourism.

Wildlife sanctuaries in Fayoum natural


Migratory birds

Characterized Mahaat Fayoum natural in lakes Qarun and Wadi Rayan existence of types of resident and migratory birds that are frequently Tuadha during the winter and are available so Tourism Bird Watching and Tourism hunting birds, according to the rules, regions and types determined by the environment, and the most important types of migratory birds in Fayoum (Khadrawi - Alkourky - Zarqawi - Pelican - poet - WAC - Chaos - catfish - Algtis - Elderberry - rare falcons).

Wildlife

Because Fayoum desert surrounded from all sides so it is rich in flora and fauna of ingredients that live in the desert, especially the rare white deer.

Rural areas

Renowned for Fayoum as a desert oasis and it Switzerland of the East, and it is paradise Aloariqh shadows, where the cultivated area in Fayoum, 26% of the Fayoum area, and the total number of workers in agriculture where 67% of the population and the largesse of the types of crops and famous fruit, also famous for its wonderful nature and tranquility granulated outstanding environmental industries and folklore inherent .. It was to include the territory of Fayoum and being located below sea level big impact in the emergence of weirs on the course of Bahr Youssef, was with a breathtaking view of tourism and of benefit to agriculture where Dart by waterwheels and windmills to pay water and bore them electricity when Hdarat Azab.

Natural eyes (eye Alsellaan), (appointed poet)

Normal eyes, gardens, mills and Hdarat water towers and bath, and a group of tourist areas, including (chalets Alsellaan - Cafeteria flower beach - Cafeteria appointed poet - Cafeteria village roundabout) and away from the city of Fayoum, about 9 km.

Bahr Youssef

Bahr Youssef Canal is that supply water Fayoum direct Conveniently near the Nile when Dirout and Taatkhadd in Fayoum form a summary of the Nile Delta and Boade flowing into Lake Qarun name, as it is the artery that was credited in the reconstruction of Fayoum and the spread of life on both sides.


Growl cab drivers

Unique Fayoum existence of cab drivers growls an old irrigation machine spin strongly push water from the weirs, which are considered family irrigation works throughout the year and are made from wood local trees .. There Fayoum, about 200 legs spread in the fields on the waterways understanding weirs sites, and there is this kind of Runnels in Egypt but in Fayoum .. has taken Fayoum Sakia slogan recognition of its important role in the irrigation of agricultural land and is accessible and can be viewed Square Qarun in Fayoum.

Desert environment

Fayoum close similarities oasis, where hedged desert from every side except her contact point Nile .. So the desert represents 62% of the area is rich in Npadtha and formations and geological mountains and hills and deserts and valleys and natural eyes, birds and wild animals rare, and the desert to the north of Lake Qarun announced and around lakes Wadi El Rayan and nature reserves due to the containment of the environmental and natural ingredients are rare.
And allow tourism in Fayoum desert safari tourism, sports tourism, medical tourism, eco-tourism and cultural tourism to visit the ancient sites of excavations effects and pre-human prehistory and the Pharaonic, Greek, Romanian effects in the region.