Egypt Beach

Egypt Praia is a region located in the commune of Egypt Praia in the municipality of Lobito, in the province of Benguela.
It got its name because of its imposing natural beauty that resembles the beaches of Egypt, as well as its coastal cliffs shaped like pyramids.
Egypt beach has its coastal strip tempered by the cold Benguela current, where it makes contact with the Balombo River that flows into its banks, making the place beautiful because of its nature drawn by the flow of the river, which runs through its fertile lands of brownish tone of your location in general.
Its diversity of fauna and flora gives it a natural beauty of great splendor.
Its vegetation is dense and varied with common species of grass from the southern region of Benguela, palm trees, pilfer trees such as mango, gajaja and almond.

Its soil is naturally fertile, which is used by local agriculture, where agricultural products are produced, such as corn, tomatoes, beans, cassava, bananas, oil palm, sugarcane and vegetables in general such as cabbage and vines.< br> Its local architecture takes us back to the past 16th century, with constructions of a fort that was used for the military defense of the territorial integrity of the place, built by the Portuguese people, mainly against the Dutch, for their own protection, and that of slaves, we find also the slave shop, which was often the last point where many Angolans saw their own country for the last time, as it was used for slave trade. We also found the slave yard, where the slaves were kept, it is divided into two parts, the yard, which refers to a space of approximately 30m in L / 70m in C where they spent their days and the dormitory. approximately 10m L / 70m C. It has a very unique energy and local stories, told by the ancients, that make us feel conscious. And finally the local cemetery, which has graves of the first to arrive in the region, one in particular in the shape of a pyramid.
Its failures throughout the region have a notorious impact.

The region itself attracts a diversity of birds because of the abundant vegetation there, its river is a natural source of food diversification for fish and freshwater shrimp, along its beach there are small boats used for fishing artisan, as the sea is full of varieties of fish, as well as a rare species of lobster, called green lobster.
The entire area has great potential for tourism:
• The beaches along the coast, which are clear in the dry seasons that correspond to the months of August to November before the rains in the interior of the municipality of Balombo, which is surrounded by the municipalities of Bocoio and Cassongue and to the south by the municipalities of Ucuma, Quinjenje and Ganda which are known because of the river water volume.
• Ecotourism, for animals such as ornithologists and turtle watchers who frequently choose their nesting site, as well as the region's flora and geographic diversity
• Cultural Tourism