Sights in Qasr Al Farafra

1. A Map

   Badr’s Museum

   • Qasr Al Farafra, Egypt
   • Sights › Architectural, cultural

   Badr Abdel Moghny is a self-taught artist whose gift to his town has become its only real sight, bless ’im. Badr’s Museum, surrounded by a desert garden, is worth seeing for the enthusiasm that Badr puts into his interesting work, much of which records traditional oasis life. His distinctive style of painting and sculpture in mud, stone and sand has also won him foreign admirers; he exhibited successfully in Europe in the early 1990s and later in Cairo.

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2. Ain Bishay

   • Qasr Al Farafra, Egypt
   • Sights › Gardens

   The Roman spring of Ain Bishay bubbles forth from a hillock on the northwest edge of town. It has been developed into an irrigated grove of date palms together with citrus, olive, apricot and carob trees, and is a cool haven amid the arid landscape. Several families tend the crops here; you should seek someone out and ask permission before wandering around.

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