Wadi El Natrun Tours from Cairo

Wadi El Natrun Tours from Cairo

Enjoy one of the best tours from Cairo to Wadi El Natroun, find out Wadi El Natroun and visit best monasteries in Wadi El Natroun, visit Al Baramus Monastery, Anba Makar Monastery, Anba bishoi Monastery and El Suryan Monastery. You will have the chance to enjoy Wadi El Natrun Tours from Cairo with Plan Egypt Tours.

Wadi El Natrun is a valley located in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, including a town with the same name. The name refers to the presence of eight different lakes in the region that produce natron salt.

The history of Wadi el Natrun, or Valley of Salt, can be traced to Pharaonic times. The region is rich in nitrate, which the ancient Egyptians extracted for their embalming process.

In Christian literature it is usually known as Scetis and is one of the three early Christian monastic centers located in the desert of the northwestern Nile Delta.The other two monastic centers are Nitria and Kellia. These three centers are often easily confused and sometimes referred to as a single place (such as "Nitria" or "Nitrian Desert"), but the locales are distinct, though geographically close together and with interrelated histories.Scetis, now called Wadi El Natrun, is best known today because its ancient monasteries remain in use, unlike Nitria and Kellia which have only archaeological remains.

The Nitrian Desert is sometimes used to mean the entire region where the monasteries are located. It can also more specifically refer to the immediate area around Nitria and Kellia, with the region around Wadi El Natrun then more specifically called the Scetis Desert.

In the Roman period, from about 30 B.C. to about A.D. 359, Wadi el-Natrun was probably one of the main centers of the glass industry in Egypt. In this district, the essential materials for glassmaking processes, mainly silica and natron, were and are still quite abundant. Two kinds of crucibles were in use: fritting and melting. The first kind was used for fritting the raw materials of glass to produce glass frit bocks. Such fritting crucibles had a rectangular form which is not usually encountered in other places. Probably this was intended to facilitate the transport of the glass frit blocks produced to glass factories in different places where raw materials were not available. Dimensions for two crucibles are proposed. The body texture is coarse, highly porous and almost loose. These features were intended by the ancient glassmaker to release the block easily by fracturing the crucible, which was thus used only once. The chemical composition is distinguished by a high content of iron oxide, lime, magnesia and alkalis, thus decreasing the resistance of the crucible to corrosion. The mineralogical composition is mainly: alpha quartz, albite, oligoclase, andesine, diopside, augite and a small amount of anorthoclase and other trace minerals. The crucible material has been found to have been originally made by mixing mud with sand to which an amount of chopped straw was added; after sun-drying the crucible was baked before use. The temperature employed in this process never exceeded 1100°C since, under prolonged heating, the crucible material fuses in the range 1150-1200°C. A.A.

Overview:

Explore Wadi El Natrun Tours from Cairo with its stunning Monasteries, such as deir anba bishoi monastery, Deir El Baramous Monastery, Deir El Suryan monastery, know more about history of Christianity and hear about Christian Monasticism in Wadi El Natrun.

Itinerary:

Plan Egypt Tours guide will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo, he will escort you to Wadi El Natrun, only one Hundred Km. from Cairo, where you will be able to scout the four Monasteries in the area, there were approx. 50 Monasteries in the area before, but at the modern times only four Monasteries survived, Wadi El Natrun considered the birthplace of Christian Monasticism in the 4th century, explore Deir EL Baramous, it is far from all monasteries, then Unleash your soul by visiting Deir Anba Bishoy, it is considered the most important monastery in Egypt, as Anba Bishoy lived and died at the same Monastery, Then proceed to visit Deir El Suryani Monastery, it is the smallest Monastery in the area, at the end of your tour Plan Egypt Tour guide will escort you back to your hotel in Cairo.

Included:

·         Pick up from your hotel in Cairo 

·         Air-conditioned vehicle Cairo / Wadi El Natrun / Cairo

·         01 Day Tour in Wadi El Natrun as mentioned at the above Excursion

·         English speaking guide in Wadi El Natrun

·         A bottle of Mineral water to each person on your way to Wadi El Natrun

·         All service charges and taxes 

·         Assist and transfer back to your hotel at the end of your tour.

Excluded:

·         Optional tours

·         Tip 

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