A 45-acre Olive Farm located on the hills of Tunis Village in Fayoum overlooking Lake Qarun. Fayoum is a beautiful and diverse part of Egypt, and can be best-enjoyed & travelled while based in the Village of Tunis. Kom el Dikka is a 30 year old privately owned Olive Farm, which has been recently developed into an Agri-Tourism Lodge. Several years ago, the farm added Vegetable & Fruit Organic Agr
iculture to its program to accommodate for the family’s’ and relatives needs, and has since expanded to include selling Certified organic products to Tunis Village and Cairo residence. Kom el Dikka accommodates guests in a few secluded locations on the hills of the estate overlooking Lake Qarun. All architecture is in Earth/Islamic design, which is both beautiful and functional, especially in managing hot and dry weather. Making it feel warmer in winter and cooler in summer than the outside temperature. Within the 45 acre estate of Kom el Dikka, and further around Tunis Village; you will find many different and interesting activities for you and even more for kids such as:
Fruit & Vegetable Picking, Horseback riding, Bird watching, Petting Zoo, Hiking, Jogging, Sailing, Fishing, Duck Migration, Baking Bread, Pottery schools, Arts & Crafts, learning to plant, BMX Track, Mountain bike riding, Sports, and Boat rides in the lake. Thank you for your interest in Kom el Dikka Agri Lodge
An Authentic Agri-Tourism Experience Kom el Dikka accommodates Guests within 5 LODGES. With a max total capacity of 59 Guests
1. ZAYTOUN LODGE الزيتون بيت (16 – 26 person capacity)
A 2 Story building featuring: 6 Double Rooms & 2 Suites, each furnished with an authentic fireplace. Almost all first-floor rooms & Suites have spacious balconies with an incredible view of the lake, mountains, and landscape. Almost all ground floor rooms & Suite have great private gardens with a view of the lake and luscious landscape.
2. LAVENDER LODGE الالفندر بيت (4 – person capacity)
A stand-alone ground floor building on a small hill. Built in authentic Islamic architecture with incredible domes. Featuring 2 Double Rooms, each with a fireplace and a terrace along with a common entrance/court yard/kitchen.
3. RIHAN LODGE الريحان بيت (8 – 12 person capacity)
2 -floor building with 3 very private Suites. Includes 1 Premium 2 Bedroom Suite which has a kitchenette, living room and an amazing Lake View balcony.Also features: 2 Superior Garden Suites with a kitchenette, fireplace* Lake view and a private garden.
4. QARUN LODGE قارون بيت (6 – 9 person capacity)
A beautiful stand-alone ground floor 3-bedroom House, with 3 bathrooms, and an open kitchen. with a Huge Garden overlooking Lake Qarun
5. PALM LODGE بيت النخل (8 person capacity)
6. BEIT ALY علي بيت Special Events
Where it all started! Built in 1986, by the Late Dr. Aly El Mofty – Designed by renowned Architect, Friend, and Neighbor Arch. Omar Al Farouk. A serene spacious room with a fireplace, featuring a Large Dome with a wonderful view of the lake. Used for retreats, meetings, candlelight dinner, etc. On Special request can be used for overnight stay. ACCOMODATION
(1) ZAYTOUN LODGE الزيتون بيت (16 – 26 person capacity)
A 2 Story building featuring: 6 Double Rooms & 2 Suites, each furnished with an authentic fireplace. Almost all first-floor rooms & Suites have spacious balconies with an incredible view of the Lake, mountains, and landscape. Almost all ground floor rooms & Suite have great private gardens with a view of the lake and luscious landscape.
• 2 Standard & 4 Premium Double Rooms – Zaytoun Lodge
o 3 Ground floor rooms & 3 first floor rooms
o Room size 29msq * – each Sleeps 2 persons
o Bed Size; 2 Single (90 cm) 1 Queen Size (180 cm)
o Bathroom – Shower & Tub*
o Fireplace – Smart TV - Mini bar – Oil Heater – Fan - Boiler
o Complimentary Tea & Coffee & Garden Products
o Balcony on 1st floor & Garden on ground floor except Standard Rooms
o Lake View for Premium Rooms
o Back View for Standard Rooms
o 1 extra bed available upon request (charged) *
• 2 Deluxe Suites – Zaytoun Lodge
o 1 Ground floor Suite & 1 first floor Suite
o Suite size 52 – Bedroom 26msq – Sleeps 2 persons
o Bed Size; 2 Single (90 cm) 1 Queen Size (180 cm)
o In suite Bathroom – Shower & Banyo
o living room 24m2 – TV
o Fireplace – Smart TV - Mini Fridge – Oil Heater – Fan - Boiler
o Complimentary Tea & Coffee & Garden Products
o Balcony on 1st floor & Garden on ground floor - Lake View
o 2 extra bed available upon request (charged)
(2) LAVENDER LODGE الالفندر بيت (4 – person capacity)
A stand-alone ground floor building on a small hill. Featuring 2 Double Rooms, each with a fireplace and a terrace along with a common entrance/court yard/kitchen.
• 2 Deluxe Side View Rooms – Lavender Lodge
o 2 Ground floor rooms
o Room size 25msq – each Sleeps 2 persons
o Bed Size; 2 Single (90 cm) 1 Queen Size (180 cm)
o Bathroom – Shower
o Fireplace – Smart TV - Mini Fridge – Oil Heater – Fan
o Boiler – complimentary Tea & Coffee & Garden Products
o Terrace with a sitting area & Small Court yard
o Partial view of the lake & a luscious garden
o Kitchen Available for special request (charged)
(3) RIHAN LODGE الريحان بيت (8-12 person capacity)
A Hidden Jem on the top of the hill, which includes 2 Superior Suites on the ground Floor & 1 Large 2-bedroom Premium Suite on the 2nd floor. All three have a spectacular view of luscious greenery & remarkable Lake view. Both garden Suites have a terrace and a Garden.
• 2 Superior Garden Suites – Rihan Lodge
o 2 Ground floor Suites
o Suite size 55 sqm. – each Sleeps 2 persons
o 1 Queen Size Bed (180 cm)
o Bathroom - Fireplace – Reception
o Kitchenette - Mini Fridge – Oil Heater – Fan
o Boiler – complimentary Tea & Coffee & Garden Products
o Fridge-freezer-toaster-stove -pots & pans, cutlery
o Terrace with garden – Private Garden with Fire Pit
o Smart TV – Sofa bed
o Amazing Lake View
o 2 extra bed available upon request (charged)
• 1 Premium 02 Bedroom Suite – Rihan Lodge
o Suite Size 100 sqm. – Sleeps 4 persons
o 2 Bedrooms
Master bedroom 19 m2, bed 2 m,
TV & in suite bathroom
Room 2 (13 m2) 2 beds (size 0.95 m) each
o 1 Living Room (size 24 m2) (Sofa Bed, size 1.2 m) Fireplace
o Reception – Kitchenette - 1 Large Bathroom
o Fridge-freezer-toaster-stove -pots & pans, cutlery
o Balcony - Garden/ Back Yard - Organic Garden
o 1 extra Bed Available upon request (charged)
(4) QARUN LODGE قارون بيت (6-9 person capacity)
o Unit size 250 sqm. – sleeps 06 persons
o 3 bedrooms
1 Master bed room, size: 23m2 with in suite bathroom/ Bed 2m
1 Medium size room 22 m2 / Bed 1.6 m (Sofa bed size 1.65 m)
1 small room, size: 16m2 / Bed 1.6 m
o 3 Bathrooms
o Large Reception - 2 TVs
o Open Kitchen/Dinning
o Fridge-freezer-toaster-microwave-pots & pans, cutlery
o Large Garden – Garage – Court Yard – Fire Pit
o Organic garden - BBQ Grill – Lake View
o 2 foldable Beds Available upon request (charged)
(5) PALM LODGE النخل بيت (8-10) person capacity)
Allocated right next to our café and the entrance to Kom el Dikka. It includes 2 Deluxe Apartments on the second Floor. Both apartments have a spectacular view of luscious greenery & remarkable Lake view from the roof balcony.
• 2 Deluxe Apartments – Palm Lodge
o 2 second floor deluxe apartments
o Apartment size 55 sqm. – 2 bedrooms in each apartment
o each bedroom Sleeps 2 persons (queen bed or double)
o 1 bathroom
o Bathroom - Fireplace – Reception
o Kitchenette – Oil Heater – Fan - AC
o Boiler – complimentary Tea & Coffee & Garden Products
o Fridge-stove -pots & pans, cutlery
o Roof balcony with great view – use of common Garden with Fire Pit
o Smart TVs
Beit Aly Lodge ---- Special Events
Where it all started! On Special request can be used for overnight stay
o 1 Large Room with a Huge Dome overlooking Pool & Lake Qarun
o 1 Courtyard with Glass Roof
o Large Terrace overlooking Pool & Lake Qarun
o 2 Bathrooms
o 2 TVs – Screen – Data Show – Flip Charts
o Fireplace
o Lake View
o Rental: Hourly – Day Use – Overnight – Days
Accommodation
• Each house is fully furnished; kitchen is fully equipped including, fridge, freezer, microwave, oven, toaster, stove, hot/cold water dispenser, pots and pans, cutlery, and set plates. (Suites don’t have oven & Freezer & microwave)
• Clean sheets and towels, covers, linen change. Bath amenities. Insect repellent. Hot water.
• Entertainment. (TV, free WIFI, Cards, chess, board games, etc…)
• Satellite decoders available upon request.
• Baby bed, Baby Feeding Chair, and Stroller also available upon request.
• We provide some complimentary items for your comfort; milk, salt, pepper, coffee, tea, mineral water, sugar, oil, vinegar
• We provide Complimentary Breakfast from the farm during your stay including; freshly baked bread & Pie, honey, olives (in season), Freshly picked Farm Herbs, vegetables, fruits, eggs, and milk.
• We have a great grill surrounded by herbs for marinating. We recommend you bring items for BBQ.
• The house keeper will pick up the garbage daily, as well as providing you with fresh towels upon your request.
• Upon your request, house keeping is available.
• Any further items needed (Including Supermarket) can be requested at reservation and will be available at house upon arrival. (paid service/5% Service Charge)
Activities
Besides enjoying sightseeing, long walks and relaxing, Kom el Dikka offers various fun and interesting activities. Most of the activities can be easily enjoyed around the land (see table below), and some need to be pre-planned. Items marked in Blue are paid and Items marked in ORANGE are for free. All UNDERLINED items need to be pre-arranged with the host. Agriculture (seasonal)
How to plant (prep-plant-water-take home) LE 10/person Fruit & Vegetable picking
Crop Harvesting
How to” compost making ” (LE 5/person) Cycles of Agriculture-Identifying Plants
Agriculture & Irrigation land tour How to” pruning” (LE 5/person)
Nature & Sport
Petting zoo LE10/person Horseback riding LE60 /Hour
Photography Boat rides in Lake Qarun LE13/Hour
Bird Watching Duck migration (Seasonal)
1.5 km Jogging Trail 2 km Mountain Bike Trail LE30/Hour
Fishing Rod & Bait (Seasonal) LE 5/person Camel Ride
Fishing LE20/kg (Seasonal) Football
Sailing LE30/person/Hour Pottery LE20/Hour
Bonfire – Marshmallow
And just out of Tunis Village, even more is available such as:
Sand boarding, 4x4 desert safaris, Ancient Egyptian, Ptolemaic, and Roman sites, UNESCO Heritage Site of pre-historic whales, national park of Wadi El-Rayan Lake & waterfalls. All of which we will gladly arrange for our guests and almost all reachable between 15 min & 30 min car ride. Desert safaris, Pottery, Horseback riding, and Boat rides are outsourced services. They have been carefully chosen based on Quality, Safety, and fun. Kom El Dikka assumes no responsibility. Tunis Village is a small agriculture & fishing village overlooking Lake Qarun where Many famous writers, intellectuals, artists and architects fell in love with the place and bought and built earth architecture houses in it. Evelynne, a Swiss Lady was the first to come to the village in the 70s and built a house and a pottery workshop which taught generations of locals a refinement of their art, which has reached international recognition. Several local potters have started pottery schools and sales points since then, which made the village known for pottery work. The pottery, mostly decorated with native art, depicting the things they see in daily life, like donkeys, cows, ducks and agricultural products. In addition, Tunis Village is also home to a caricature museum, a House built by the famous architect, Eng. Hassan Fathy. There are also a few hotels, boutique hotels, and camp sites scattered around the village. One of the special characteristics of Fayoum is its diversification of the locals. They split into 3 categories; farmers, Nomads, and Fisherman. All of which can be seen in and around Tunis. Because of the closeness of Tunis Village to the edge of the desert, Nomads are known to pass by every now and then for trade activities. Lake Qarun is Egypt's largest salt lake. Despite having shrunk over the past few thousand years, it's about 215 square kilometers with a small island in the middle. The lake was historically a fresh water lake, but since it receives agriculture drainage water from the canals in Fayoum, it has turned salty. It is considered an excellent site for bird watching, sailing, windsurfing, rowing, and fishing. Lake Qarun and more specifically Tunis Village are especially known for Bird Migration. More than 200 species of birds migrate to Lake Qarun during the winter, coming from Eastern Europe & Western Asia. More specifically, Duck migration starts in late August and ends at March can be viewed all around the Lake, and specifically in Tunis Village and in Wadi El Rayan.als this place and the area around is dusty creating and dry, creating
Fayoum
The Fayoum governorate falls into five smaller cities. Fayoum is the capital and largest city, lying at the centre of the depression. The governorate has three main characteristic landscapes: the rural centre, the surrounding desert and the lake shores of Wadi Al-Rayan and Lake Qarun. Fayoum, the capital, was first known as Crocodilopolis -- referring to God Sobik of Fayoum represented by a man with the head of a crocodile. It has also been called the Venice of Egypt due to the many canals that run through it from Bahr Youssef. The Fayoum depression has played an integral role in every culture that has swept through Egypt, from the Pharaohs to the Greeks and Romans, to the Coptic Christians and finally the Muslim Arabs. Beyond its human history, the area has long been distinguished by its natural beauty; its lakes, palm trees, pristine desert areas, fossil remains, bird sanctuaries, and rural quietude, offering an unmatched natural richness to visitors. Fayoum is a city with a quiet reputation yet much to offer -- particularly at this time of year. From October till April, Fayoum enjoys a warm climate (22-28 degrees Celsius), also offering the opportunity to escape the noise and crowd for a weekend. The list of activities available in Fayoum is long. Did you know, for example, that you can follow the traces of Alexander the Great on camel in Fayoum? Or that the city offers 600km of desert hiking trail, and that you can get closer there to birds than anywhere else? This is, of course, in addition to the usual sightseeing programs to various historical sites.
