The Sannur Valley Cave Protectorate is in the Beni-Suef governorate and lies just 10 km away from the city. It’s just a short two-hour drive from Cairo. The place has many geographical formations of stalactites and stalagmites as well. The reserve becomes even more important due to the natural formations present here, many of which are rare and hard to find elsewhere. The reserve is filled with a large number of quarries dating back to different eras. Some of them belong to the ancient period which was used at the time of pharaohs in Egypt and still, others date back to the modern era and are more recently exploited.
The cave here extends to an area of 700 meters and has a depth and width of 15 meters respectively. The caves contain geographical formations which are referred to as ups and downs. The most important feature of the natural formations is the quality and also the rare nature of these which are found nowhere else on the globe. The researchers and geologists thus find this reserve very important to learn and do conductive research and studies about the environmental and other conditions that prevailed during the ancient times.
