Dakhla oasis is located at the northeast of Kharga and at 310 Km at the southeast of Farafra. This oasis is composed by 14 villages with a population of 70.000 inhabitants approximately. Dakhla is one of the most remote oasis from Cairo and consider the most beautiful oasis from all Egypt. There is about 30.000 acre of cultivated land. Most of his inhabitants are farmers that day by day are fighting against the desert dunes to save their crops. The fields and gardens are in his majority full of blackberries, dates, figs and other citric fruits. Dakhla oasis although his increase in inhabitants and the government help that has raise his economy they have continue maintaining his customs and traditions. Dakhla is the only place in Egypt where until now they construct water wheels which are driven by buffaloes. They are made with palm tree wood and clay vases called “saqiyas”. This oasis is at 200 Km from Kharga communicated by a road.

Thanks to the discoveries we know that Dakhla oasis was inhabited since the prehistory time, and that there was a big lake. The neolithic rocks paintings founded shows that the lake was frequented by elephants, buffaloes and ostriches. At the time that the lake was drying, the inhabitants of the oasis were emigrating to the Nile valleys.