The mountain is characterized as one of the most beautiful natural areas in the White Desert Reserve. It is a mountain consisting of crystal rocks and it is unique of its kind, as the shiny crystal pieces are considered among the precious rocks that have no equal in the world, and it has become one of the most important tourist attractions in particular because it contains The most beautiful scenery, charming nature.
The metamorphic limestone rocks are the first point on the way to enter the reserve, and in front of it is a large sign that includes all available information about it.
Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Azim, professor of geology at the National Research Center, says that the mountain consists entirely of crystals or pure and unique crystals, and it is a cave area that was subjected to drowning and turned into metamorphic limestone rocks.
As for the area to which the mountain belongs, it was a sea during the Eocene eras until the Cretaceous period, and when the sea dried up after the Cretaceous period, this region appeared, including the Crystal Mountain.
Dr. Ali Suleiman, Professor of Geophysics at the National Geophysics Center, states that the Crystal Mountain was a full cave of stalagmites and stalactites, and with the passage of time and as a result of erosion factors, the cave lost its roof. Very led to the fusion of rocks, and turned into pieces of precious crystal.
Imad Saeed, a tour guide, said that the Ministry of Environment declared the mountain a nature reserve in 2008, after most of the tourists and locals collected the scattered crystal pieces, causing it to be empty of most of the pieces, leaving only the solid mountain structure that is difficult to break. But it turns out not just colored stones, but some of the most expensive stones in the world.
Before declaring the White Desert a natural reserve in 2002, safari tourists used to go to that area and collect some of the mountain’s separated stones as souvenirs. Egyptian tourists who love safari imitated them. Those rocks are the main reason for the crystal mountain’s acquisition of its natural beauty and luster due to the brilliance of those pieces in the daytime hours in a scene that kidnaps Insight now.

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