UNDP highlights Egypt’s valley of the whales in Tourism Day

CAIRO-27 September 2017: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) celebrated World Tourism Day by viewing a video of valley of the whales in the Fayoum governorate of Egypt on its official Twitter account on Wednesday.

The Valley of the Whales (Wadi El Hitan) is a paleontological site, which was labeled as a UNESCO heritage site in 2005 for its fossils of the earliest forms of the whale, the fossils were first discovered in the early 1900s.