North lake Qaroun National Park tours best attractions choice in Fayoum

North lake qaroun national park tours attractions best choice in Fayoum Fayoum Travel Guide The combination of stunning landscape and the proximity to Cairo make the Fayoum an attractive travel destination. Fayoum provides plentiful activities for tourists who like to explore its nature and rural life: From bird watching, boat trips, hiking, horse riding, swimming to safari desert trips. This Blog about my private tour visit to north lake Qarun in Fayoum , i made this day during Ramadan to Allah the day wasn’t hard . Lake Moeris is an ancient lake, nowadays Known as Lake Qarun, in the northwest of the Faiyum Oasis, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Cairo, Egypt. It persists in modern times as a smaller lake called Birket Qarun. The lake’s surface is 140 ft (43 m) below sea-level, and covers about 78 square miles (200 km2). The Lake is in the Fayoum Province, 40 km in length, 5.7 km in width and 34 to 43 m below sea level with a mean depth of 4.2 m. Groundwater appears to be continuously seeping from a number of sub-surface springs at the lake bottom. A gently sloping sand-plain extends from the lakeshore northwards and upwards to reach sea level at 7 km north of the shoreline. Lake Moeris was freshwater in prehistory. In 2300 BC, the waterway from the Nile to the natural lake was widened and deepened to make a canal which is now known as the Bahr Yussef. This canal fed into the lake. This was meant to serve three purposes: control the flooding of the Nile, regulate the water level of the Nile during dry seasons, and serve the surrounding area with irrigation. There is evidence of ancient Egyptian pharaohs of the twelfth dynasty using the natural lake of Faiyum as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry periods. The Qarun Lake today, 45 meters below sea level, has a surface area of 214 square kilometers. It has a maximum depth of just over 8 meters (west of Golden Horn Island) and a volume of 800 million cubic meters. It is 42 kilometers long and 9 kilometers wide at its broadest point. About 370 million cubic meters of drainage water reach the lake annually, and as the lake level now stays fairly constant and there are no known outlets, this figure is also taken as the annual rate of evaporation. If follows that, if the water supply to the lake were cut off, it would dry up in two years. The high rate of evaporation has led to a concentration of salts, the lake is now as saline as the seawater, with a ratio of around 34.5 parts per thousand, said to be growing at the rate of 0.4 parts per year. For comparison, sea water ranges between 34 and 37 per thousand, while Jordans Dead Sea has between 300 and 330 per thousand. The water is less salty in the East and the South of the lake, where the two main canals bring in fresh water. The northern side of Lake Qarun The northern side of Lake Qarun, around Gebal Qatrani, hosts one of the world’s most complete fossil records of terrestrial primates and marshland mammals, critical to our understanding of human evolution. Discoveries continue to be made and studied by scientists. مول العرب للتسوق عبر الانترنت يقدم منتجات مميزه من منتجات المتاجر الالكترونيه مثل امازون وفوغا كلوسيت و نمشي وسوق وجوميا وايهيرب ونون كوم وسيفي كوم وبيبي سوق واناس كوم وناس كوم وبيبي سوق BABY SOUK وماماز اند باباز ونيوشيك و جاب وفارفيتش وزافول وسبري كوم وجولدن سنت و فورزيري وباي سيمفوني وشوب بوب وامازون الامارات ونسناس ومذركير ونقدم احدث كوبونات خصم وتخفيضات للعروض لتفيد الزائر العربي مثل افضل اسعار الموبايل والتابلت والكاميرات والساعات والملابس والمجوهرات ويقدم مول العرب افضل اسعار وكوبونات خصم من مواقع السفر مثل بوكينج واكسبيديا والمطار والمسافر ورحلات واجودا و طيران الامارات North lake Qaroun National Park tours best attractions choice in Fayoum