According to online information, Masr village is located 45 kilometers east of Jandaq and is a part of Khor and Biyabank counties in Isfahan province, which is located in the middle of the road between Damghan, Nain and Isfahan. Currently, this village is considered one of the important nature tourism destinations in Iran. The name of the sandy sea of the Egyptian desert is familiar to all nature lovers. The previous name of this village was “Mazreh Yusuf”.
The nearest settlement to Misr village is “Dere Bidan” at a distance of about 18 kilometers. Misr village has a hot and dry climate due to its location in the south of the Great Desert. The people of this village make a living through agriculture and animal husbandry. The most important products of this village are saffron and wheat.
Tourist attractions
The area of Amirabad, 2 kilometers away from the village, has sandy hills and rich vegetation with beautiful cypress trees and palm trees, which have created very beautiful landscapes. Farahzad village in the north of Misr village has beautiful groves surrounded by flowing sand.
Nizar Misr is located 6 kilometers to the east of Egypt, which has been created by the water of a beautiful spring. This reed has long reeds, the height of some of which reaches 4 meters. The spring of this reed is the drinking water of the animals of the region. Among other places of interest in this area, we can mention the Namak Khor lake and the Tabagha desert located 50 km from the Khor to Tabas road, Garmeh village, Mohammad Abad Koregaz village, Arousan village, Farahzad village, Arousan-Bidestan caravan road, Ebrahim Zahra off-road, Rig Kaleh and Central desert.
Among the sights around this village, we can mention Chal Selkanun, Misr Nizar, Selkanun Salt Lake, Abbasid Takht, Aros Takht and sand dunes around the village.
The reason for naming this village
It has been reported that in the past, the founder of this village was a capitalist named Yusuf, who was a shepherd and shepherd. The age of this village may not be more than 100 years, but everyone knew it as Yusuf’s farm until the aqueducts of the village became dry and lacked water, forcing Yusuf to dig a well with English diesel engines. A few years after exploiting this well, the underground water table went down again until Yusuf dug a deeper well.
For this reason, the residents of the neighboring villages called this village “Cahdraz”. But since Yusuf did not like this name, he asked the residents to call this village Egypt, since his name is Yusuf and the story of Prophet Yusuf also happened in the land of Egypt. Because the people of the village had a lot of respect for Yusuf, they called this village “Egypt”.
Youssef ordered that a wide street with a length of at least 500 meters be built in the middle of the village, and in response to the doubts of the residents who said that our village is small and there is no need to build this wide and long street, he said that it will become famous and crowded in the near future. Interestingly, Yusuf’s prediction came true and now many tourists visit this village, so that now this village is considered one of the most important nature tourism destinations in Iran.
