Dehiba Resort
Travel Blogs from Siwa
The Egyptian Road Less Travelled
... not even drop us off at the street address we'd given him...
[[Apparently, they don't know how to read maps and as street names are seldom labeled must rely more on landmarks they're already familiar with. Not the best system, but it is cool how all the taxi drivers ask each other for help as they drive like lunatics. For those uninitiated in the driving habits in 3rd world countries, the lane markers are seen merely as decoration, ...
Cycling and dominoes
... 8211; you could see the bubbles surfacing. We sat and had coffee, and Ahmed told us about Muslim marriage customs and about growing up as a Muslim.
We left there after about an hour and after cycling for another 20 minutes arrived back at the hotel around 2pm.
Tempers were a little short in the group, due perhaps to the heat and the empty stomachs, so everyone kind of split up after that. Ahmed took Rowie and I to ...
Siwa Oasis!
Since my last update, time has just flown by...
Last week went particularly fast... A quick recap of the week:
Our hotel breakfast has become slower and slower each day, and most days now it takes more than 45 minutes to even get a cup of (gasp!) Nescafe with breakfast before I have to leave for school. So one day last week, as I was entering the breakfast room, Brandon suggested that we go to Starbucks to get some real coffee. The closest ...
Hello Siwa
... a pick-up truck
bed. Let it also be known that there are more donkeys and bicycles in
Siwa than there are cars, in other words parking is hardly an issue.
Fatnis is the happening spot to catch the sunset, you ...
Weekend in Siwa (Part 2)
... up and down because, "Oh. My. God. This is SO AMAZING!!" I ran over and began to run up the sand dune, which is not as simple as I thought. I eventually made it to the top with some of the others and began snapping pictures, until my camera broke from all the sand blown into it. At the top of the dune the wind was outrageous, and I had so much sand in my eyes I could hardly see- somehow I looked down and found the sand had blown all the way up to my calves- I decided ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Free parking