点评:We visited Wadi Al-Hitan today with the Hatam Ali Fayoum Tour($145) from our Lake Qarun hotel. After checking in at the Wadi Al Rayan NP entrance($50), our driver departed the nicely paved road to cross the open desert. This bouncing drive followed a general track over small dunes & across flat lake beds with infinity views that ended at the roughly paved lane to the Wadi Al-Hitan entrance. Here the landscape became dramatic with high sandstone cliffs, plateaus and odd shaped house sized rocks along with the beautiful architecture of the museum structures. Inside we watched a 12 minute introductory video in English, before encircling the excellent exhibits on the 40 million year transformation of climate that provided the habitat for a hyena-like mammal to evolve into whale ancestors. Lots of period fossils.
We returned on the paved road passing the 2 man-made lakes of Wadi Al Rayan, arriving back at our hotel 3 ½ hours later.
翻译:今天我们参加了哈塔姆·阿里法尤姆旅游公司(Hatam Ali Fayoum Tour,费用145美元)的行程,从卡伦湖畔的酒店出发,游览了鲸鱼谷(Wadi Al-Hitan)。在瓦迪赖扬国家公园(Wadi Al Rayan NP)入口处办理入住手续(门票50美元)后,司机离开了铺设良好的公路,穿越了开阔的沙漠。这段颠簸的旅程沿着一条小路,翻越着小沙丘,穿过平坦的湖床,沿途尽是无垠的景色,最终到达通往鲸鱼谷入口的崎岖小路。这里的景色变得壮丽起来,高耸的砂岩峭壁、高原和形状奇特的巨石,以及博物馆建筑群的精美设计,都令人叹为观止。进入博物馆后,我们观看了一段12分钟的英文介绍视频,然后参观了精彩的展品,了解了4000万年来气候的演变,正是这种演变为一种类似鬣狗的哺乳动物进化成鲸鱼祖先提供了栖息地。展品中有很多不同时期的化石。
之后,我们沿着铺设好的公路返回,途经瓦迪赖扬的两个人工湖,三个半小时后回到了酒店。