Lake Siwa

... the palm trees are all very dusty and the oasis I visited were sprawling dusty towns looking much like the rest of Egypt but with fewer tourists. However, there is water. There are usually several hot springs that provide the lifeblood for ...

... due to it being the end of Ramadan, all the soldiers from the surrounding barracks are going back to their families all over Egypt. And the bus companies in true Egyptian forward-planning have not laid on any additional buses to cover the extra load. ...

... only about 20 people staying there and other than French film stars most guests were either french families on holiday, or expats living in Egypt. At one point I was sitting by the fire with a large group of people and people asked what I do for a ...

The Siwa Oasis is truly the paradise of Egypt. It was a 9 hour bus ride from Cairo (not direct) through the western desert. It was very strange, we're in the middle of the desert, there's nothing for as far as the eye can see, and the bus kept stopping ...

... on a hill, surrounded by mud-brick structures. The view from the temple is amazing, as it overlooks the Siwa Oasis, the Sahara Desert, and the Salt Lake. Supposedly, this was where Alexander the Great was told that he was the son of the the sun god ...

... got in our jeep, were introduced to Khaled and Asman. Khaled is one of the sons of Ahmed, whom we met the night before at the salt lake and had tea with him. Ahmed has 11 children, not all from one wife, 9 of them are boys. Khaled was 18 and he was our ...

... throwing up in Fethi's home Glow: Finding out she liked goat Lindsey Glum: Making a scene coming in and out of Siwa Glow: Waleed YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN IN EGYPT TOO LONG WHEN: You have not seen or talked to a woman in days The locals have to move out of ...

Siwa Oasis is one of the most beautiful places I have visited in Egypt. It is an oasis in the middle of the Sahara desert, which is 50 km from the Libyan border. It is situated 12 mt below the sea level and 80 kms long and 29 km wide. It is like a vast ...

... who had recently met Alex. So the six of us set out to see the environs of Siwa. First we ventured to the great lake of Siwa which stretches in a calm pool to the edge of the desert. We swam in a slightly salty and algae coated pool here which was ...

... We spent the next morning with Nova and a local shop owner named Mohammed (how surprising....i swear 90% of the male population of Egypt is named Mohammed!).  We decided we would go out into the desert (not just ANY desert, but the Great Sand ...