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Siwa - desert adventures Mk II

A travel blog entry by technotrekker

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Siwa Oasis - fallout from the dust storm 25/2 I'd heard that Siwa Oasis, the most far-flung Oasis in the Western Desert out near the Libyan border, was a place worth visiting so I continued on my merry way from El Alamein to reach it. This meant a ...

One last blast in the desert

A travel blog entry by richymariner

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... Oases of Dakhla and Siwa, we also were fortunate to spend a night camping amongst the weird rock formations of the White Desert. Siwa was amazing, very rural but remarkably relaxed, the view of the town from the nearby old city (especialy at sunset was ...

We'll stay one more day... We'll stay one more day

A travel blog entry by purplefrog

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... he spoke Siwi, Arabic, English, Italian as well as some French and German. We also met a Libyan man here who had come to Siwa to find a wife for one of his sons. It was really interesting to get an insight into this process and how it actually ...

Cleopatra's Bath, Siwa, and the French film star

A travel blog entry by lynnster

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... ! Seriously. It's a blast. My camera battery died unfortunately so I don't have pictures of the whole thing, I wish I did. The oasis was beautiful although walking in the lake's water was kind of an odd experience. Between my toes it felt like walking on ...

Touring Siwa

A travel blog entry by lynnster

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... Maged were supposed to pick me up but Ecolodge guy wanted me to use HIS guide. Forget that I've paid for an entire tour of Egypt with my guides... annoying Ecolodge Guy kept repeating "Is not good for me!!! You use my guide at 10:00." I just shrugged my ...

Siwa Oasis

A travel blog entry by tmcmullin

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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 to ...

Oasis in the desert

A travel blog entry by ntlockhart

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... in Alexandria, but sadly we had to move on the next day bright and early. With some reluctance, we left Alex for Siwa Oasis in Egypt's Western desert. The bus ride was 10 hours and left a lot to be desired. Principle among the many discomforts ...

Siwa Oasis

A travel blog entry by purplefrog

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We caught the bus to Siwa today, an oasis in western Egypt only 120 kms from the border with Libya. Absolutely hellish day, windy, dusty and 9 hours sitting on a bus crammed with people, standing in the aisles as well. Toilets at the roadside stops ...

My god, no requests for baksheesh!

A travel blog entry by baggagewhores

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Christmas in the desert, Siwa oasis, near Lybia

A travel blog entry by mike-christelle

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... the Great Sand Sea starts just there ... Siwa is still a great place to relax : countless bubbly hot springs, bike rides in the oasis and a fascinating mud fortress at the core of it. It is also a great place to freeze at night in December. Pick ...

The Sahara

A travel blog entry by dozy

... delicious. After Kevin woke up, met our tour group in the lobby and set out for our trip into the wilds of the oasis. Our guide, Ramadan, was cheerful and helpful and trundled us into the back of a 4x4 pickup truck, equipped with a very tall camper ...

Siwa Saga

A travel blog entry by dozy

... , we started descending amongst cliffs and ravines into the depression. It's hard to overstate the drama of finding a desert oasis. We descended further and further down until finally we saw palm trees and water. The oasis exists because tectonic ...

A sad farewell to Siwa

A travel blog entry by dozy

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... . This temple, built sometime around the 6th century bce, was the place that Alexander the great visited to become Pharoah of Egypt. Previous expeditions had failed in this, but the oracle declared Alexander the son of God and a new page in world ...

A hard day to beat!!!!!

A travel blog entry by pam

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... day of the trip so far!!!!! Poor mike missed out! (he arrives here in Cairo tonight!!!) We went from Marsa Matruh to the Siwa Oasis, which is way out west near the Libya border. The town of Siwa is very very small....with more donkey cart traffic ...

Skulls, squating and sand dunes!

A travel blog entry by zerns01

... . I ended up making myself a chip sandwich followed by a couple of oranges. After lunch we continued on to Bahrein Oasis where we eventually stopped to look at the remains of a 13th dynasty temple. There wasn't much to see and the mossies ...

Siwa Oasis

A travel blog entry by jennysabbatique

As soon as I got off the bus, I liked this place. It's a really small oasis where Bedouin people live. They go around on donkey carts and women were a gray garment and a black veil with no hole for the eyes. Everywhere around you ...

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Siwa - desert adventures Mk II

One last blast in the desert

We'll stay one more day... We'll stay one more day

Cleopatra's Bath, Siwa, and the French film star

Touring Siwa

Siwa Oasis

Oasis in the desert

Siwa Oasis

My god, no requests for baksheesh!

Christmas in the desert, Siwa oasis, near Lybia

The Sahara

Siwa Saga

A sad farewell to Siwa

A hard day to beat!!!!!

Skulls, squating and sand dunes!

Siwa Oasis