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Hotel Kelany Siwa

Central market sq, Town centre Siwa, Egypt

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Afslapning i Oerkenen

A travel blog entry by afrikaeskapade

Vi kom til Siwa efter en fin bustur gennem oerkenen, dog med flere lange stop undervejs til stor frustration for Malte.

Vi tog en aeselvogn ud til vores hotel som laa 5 km udenfor Siwa. Midt ude i ingenting. Vi var de eneste gaester, saa der var helt stille og stille. Der var kun en der arbejdede der og vi aftalte loebende hvornaar og hvad …

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The Egyptian Road Less Travelled

A travel blog entry by barry0fisher

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... sun's heat, and the lack of ventilation from your own breathing, it must be unbearably hot inside those. Now the irony, is that later in Alexandria as well as Cairo, there seems to be an overabundance of lingerie stores, and many designer cloth outlets featuring busty mannequins in low cut blouses and dresses. Somehow I can't see how Egypt's Arab culture and this business selection makes sense, but perhaps all these sheltered women during the ...

Cycling and dominoes

A travel blog entry by ricki958

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... dated around the 3rd Century BC. Apparently Alexander the Great visited the place and had himself named as a deity there, in 33BC.

We stopped after that at the Temple of Amun, all of which remains is a single wall with a bit of carving on it.

Then to Cleopatra’s Spring, which has nothing to do with Cleopatra but was an interesting place with a couple of coffee houses around a very deep pool, fed by a spring at ...

Siwa Oasis

A travel blog entry by irenen42

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Yep another oasis :) This was a small town, that moved at quite possibly the most relaxed pace I have ever seen - big call in Egypt. We hired bikes to ride out to see the mountain of the dead about 4km out of town - a small hill with maybe 100 tombs. We then rode on to see the temple of the oracle - where Alexander the great was proclaimed as the son of Zeus. Last stop on bikes was Cleopatras Bath - a natural spent set ...

Siwa Oasis!

A travel blog entry by mjs265

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... Unfortunately, nothing was open and the town was deserted. As we were standing in front of a giant 3D map of the area, deciding what to do for the day, a 'taxi' (read:rickshaw) driver pulled up and offered us a pretty comprehensive tour for 25 LE per person (~$4.50). So he piled into the back of his motorcycle-driven rickshaw and sped off.

First, he took us to the "Gebel Muta" or "Mountain of the Dead" where there are many Roman tombs. It was still ...