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| ʿAin Tūnī · عين توني | ||
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The hamlet and the spring 'Ain Tuni (Arabic:عين توني, ʿAin Tūnī) are located about 13 kilometers east of the city el-Bāwīṭī in the valley el-Baḥrīya in Egypt. From the village el-Ḥārra and apart from the miners 'settlement of el-Manāgim,' Ain Tuni is the easternmost settlement in the valley.
background
The hamlet has been around since the mid-1980s. The farmers who settled here as part of the new land reclamation came from el-Faiyūm.
getting there
The hamlet can be reached via trunk road 10 from Cairo to el-Bāwīṭīby going north about 12 kilometers before el-Bāwīṭī 1 turns(28 ° 20 ′ 51 ″ N.28 ° 59 ′ 4 ″ E). From here one would point south into the desert to the stalactite cave el-Gara to get.
mobility
While the village itself can be reached with any vehicle on paved roads, an all-terrain vehicle (4 × 4) is required to continue to Gebel el-Ghurābī and the Ghurūd el-Ghurābī dune.
Tourist Attractions
The farmsteads were laid out as part of the reclamation of new land. The hamlet itself has nothing worth seeing.
In the northeast of the hamlet, however, there are delightful landscapes. This is reached after a good ten kilometers in a north-northeastern direction 1 Tomb of Sheikh Muḥammad el-Qaḏḏāfī(28 ° 28 ′ 9 ″ N.29 ° 1 ′ 51 ″ E), Arabic:مقام الشيج محمد القذافي, Maqam al-Sheikh Muḥammad al-Qaḏḏāfīwho died here in 1974 during a pilgrimage to Mecca and a family member of the former Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar el-Gaddafi was. His grave is in a simple house surrounded by trees. For a long time it was a not insignificant pilgrimage site for Muslims Libya.
North of the aforementioned grave is the 2 Gebel el-Ghurābī(28 ° 29 ′ 9 ″ N.29 ° 2 ′ 11 ″ E), Arabic:جبل الغرابي, „the raven rock“.
After about three kilometers in an easterly direction you will reach the shifting dune 3 Ghurūd el-Ghurābī(28 ° 29 '49 "N.29 ° 4 ′ 17 ″ E), Arabic:غرود الغرابي. It is an extension of the huge shifting dune Ghurd Abū Muḥarrik and the most impressive shifting dune in the vicinity of el-Bāwīṭī. This is how you imagine a sand dune, sand as far as the eye can see. Ferrous minerals can be found on the edges of the dune.
kitchen
Restaurants can be found in el-Bāwīṭī.
accommodation
Accommodation is usually chosen in el-Bāwīṭī.
trips
A visit to the hamlet of ʿAin Tūnī or the landscapes in the north can be combined with other destinations in the north and east of the el-Baḥrīya depression.
