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Fayoum Pottery School
A village worth the long drive · Tunis Village, Egypt
Photo: Hatem Moushir · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.4★Rating
187Reviews
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Oct–AprBest time
The experience
The studio-school Swiss ceramist Evelyne Porret founded in 1984 turned Tunis, a mudbrick village above Lake Qarun, into Egypt's pottery capital — its lanes now string together kilns, glazes and small galleries.
Tour buses stop at the pyramids; the potters' lanes of Fayoum's lake villages remain a Cairo-weekender secret.
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It's only worth the detour Oct–Apr. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Tunis Village, Egypt · Fayoum Oasis. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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