The magical natural wonders of the colored Canyon
Unknown to many who visit Egypt thinking only of the Great Pyramids of Giza and the city of Cairo, The Colored Canyon can confuse your eyes with such a spectacular sight.
Hidden in the desert in area called sinai peninsula, Colored Canyon one of the best kept secrets of the amazing land of the Great Pyramids.
Location of the Canyon
Located 210 miles from the great city of Cairo, the valley is in the Sinai region. The Colored Canyon is 800 meters long and 30 meters deep. Nuweiba, a very quiet little village in Egypt, is the closest town to the valley.
How to get to the Canyon?
The only way to get there is by private vehicle. Tours can be arranged and that’s the best way to visit the valleyas the guide is important to find the location in the middle of the Sinai desert.
Transfers to the valley can arranged to pick up tourists from Dahab, Sharm El Sheikh and Cairo.
Interesting Facts About Egypt’s Colored Canyon
Millions of years ago, the Sinai Desert finally became part of the Red Sea, and nowhere else has the ancient ocean left a brighter legacy on the landscape than at the valley near Nuweiba.
At the canyon lets you immediately recognize where it got its name.
The canyon walls reaching sixteen stories high, are by far the most colorful and intriguing rock formations in all of Sinai. They were created by the erosion of water on sandstone and limestone.
In places the deep coloring of the rocks gives the canyon walls a prismatic, metallic sheen; in others, the stone is so smooth that it seems soft and floating.
only a few feet in places, giving the canyon an intimate, secretive feel. Colored Canyon most often compared to the Jordanian city of Petra. Sight in valley, entirely natural and has never been altered by human civilization at any point in history.
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