Egypt's Valley of Whales becomes new hotspot for growing astrotourism

FAYOUM, Egypt, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- In the desert stillness of Egypt's Wadi El-Hitan, a group of stargazers kneeled on the cooling Fayoum sands as Mohammed Hassan's green laser sliced through the ink-black sky to illuminate the glowing disk of Jupiter.

Wadi El-Hitan, or the Valley of the Whales, located in Fayoum governorate southwest of Cairo, is famous for being an open-air museum of 40-million-year-old whale fos