Baharia oasis cover a zone of 2000 metres square. It is located at 330 Km from Cairo. It has 10.000 inhabitants and is divided in four villages. The bigest one and its capital is Bawiti, famous because of her dates. The other three villages are famous because of the spring waters (water temperature 27ºC). This oasis is surrounded by black mountains. The majority of the villages and crop areas you can observe them from Jebel al Miysrah, to 50 metres of altitude over the dunes.

This oasis during the pharaonic period was one of the most important areas of agriculture, and famous also for his wines in the Medium Empire.

Unfortunately because of the Romans and the violent tribes some areas of the oasis were cover by the sand.

For the lovers of the fauna, the Baharia oasis offers you his entertainment, you can observe specially some birds called wheatear.

The crop areas cover a small percentage of the area and we can see products like dates, olives, apricots, rice and corn.

There are a lot of areas with spring waters, some of them very hot, like for example Bir ar-Rambla, but probably the better one is Bir al Ghaba, at 10 miles to the north of Bawiti. Also we can find the spring waters of Bir al mattar with cold water and flowing into a swimming pool.

But not only the Baharia oasis offer us an attraction in the fauna and the spring waters. For the lovers of the desert, there are some places that you can not leave with out seeing them. The black and white deserts. The white desert is similar to the surface of the moon. You can observe there the greatest marvels things that the mother nature has create with rocks, making figures similar to a mushroom, castles, etc, and the black desert was created because of the erosions and the wind due to that near, there was a volcanic mountain and they were spread over the desert ground.

The oasis of Baharia also have ruins of a Temple of the 17º Dynasty and near tombs where the birds were buried.