Staring with horse riding, make a tent, swim with the horses to the other side of the lake to BBQ with music and staying up late around camp fire...Spend one day at Sobek and you'll get addicted to it :)))
Tunis is a small village on the border of the Lake Qarun in Fayoum, Educated by a Swiss potter who started a pottery school for children in 1970, several local potters have started pottery scho
ols and sales points. They make lovely pottery, mostly decorated with something that looks like naive art, depicting the things they see in daily life, like donkeys, goats, ducks and agricultural products. The road past Tunis continues along the lake Qaroun, and at the end you can either go to the South to see the protected area of Wadi Rayyan, or to the North and back East on the other side of the lake. The road ends after 20 kilometers or so. It is said that it will be connected to Cairo one day in future, when the panned 3,000 bed hotel on that side of the lake will be finished. Currently, the building has not even started yet and all who lives there are a few goat herd families on the verge of starvation. Because of the high concentration of dust in the air, it is almost impossible to see the mountain chain behind the lake, the Gebel Qatrani formation. In this neighborhood very old fossils are found, just like in Wadi el Hittan. But where in Wadi el Hittan the majority of fossils have a sea related origin, here they have belonged to land animals like elephants and primates.
