Dakhla’s capital is the city of Mut. In this city there is a temple build in sandstone dedicated to the Theban Triad (the Kings Ra, Mut and Jonsu). Out from the city you can visit the spring waters. Most of them have warm water, but there are other ones that can reach 43 degrees.

At 40 Km more or less to the east of Mut is Bashedi. This village is now also with the name of “the Pharaonic village”. His walls are build over an old temple and his entrance is a huge arch that describes the city as a model village.

In this oasis we have also the city of Balat, that in ancient times was the capital. Is at around 35 Km to the east of Mut. Is a small but interesting village, where the streets are covered and there are a lot of gardens with grapevines and palm trees. There is also in Balat some graves of the Sixth Dynasty and a Greek cemetery.

The village of Al-Qasr was the medieval capital build like a roman colony. His streets are also covered as Balat, to protect from the sun and the sand. The doors of the houses until now maintain the old lintels with inscriptions from the Koran.

Mut is probably the most friendly tourist village from the oasis of Dakhla. It has hotels and attractive places like for example a swimming pool of sulphur waters.
It have twisting streets around the old houses build with mud bricks. There is also an old citadel and a Islamic cemetery outside the village.