Rainbow Canyon

 


Colourful canyon, with its entrance opening from a secluded sandy basin encircled by jagged rock faces. You can only reach the area on foot, either coming from Bier Biriya, a well with date palms, or from Wadi Watir via Hlel el Waar. It’s a pretty place, worth a visit if you are walking from the Coloured Canyon to Jebel Berqa, but to make a detour just to see it alone probably not. 

Around the Rainbow Canyon

  • Rainbow Canyon: located off a sandy basin, which can be approached from Bier Biriya over two rocky passes and a basin, or from Wadi Watir via the very narrow, sandy Hlel el Waar.
  • Wadi Biriya: a short wadi where a few palms and a well known as Bier Biriya are found, connecting to Wadi Arada and then Wadi Watir. To the Rainbow Canyon the route starts over a rock face right opposite the well.
  • Hlel el Waar: wider at the top at the Rainbow Canyon, it’s a wadi that gets very narrow towards the end at Wadi Watir. The terrain is soft sand all the way.
  • Wadi Watir: the main wadi between Nuweiba and the tunnel under the Suez canal. The route to Ein Umm Ahmed and Jebel Berqa carries on across the road in Wadi Haramat.

Hike info and map: Trek 22

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