Oasis Panorama Hotel
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Baharia
1/25-26 Baharia Oasis 7AM departure from Cairo. We've got a pretty old bus now, but it has a mini toilet, so everyone cheers. It will be a long 4 hr drive to Baharia, our first oasis stop. There's nothing much but sand along the way- the first stretch is very flat before we finally see some mountains. Our motel is actually quite cute though a bit …
Local Tour of Bahariya Oasis
... at least in Bahariya).
The lives of Muhammed and his daughter are very simple, yet he is already teaching his daughter English so she can have the opportunity for an ounce of success in Egypt, as tourism is one of Bahariya's and Egypt's economy. ...
The middle of no where
... off to Crystal Mountain. We crawled into a cave in a mountain which had crystal everywhere. I broke off a piece and have kept it as a souvenir. After stopping to see if we could help a semi-trailer truck that had managed to get bogged on the side of the road (we saw it still there this morning) we put the 4x4 to good use again as we drove into the White Desert to set up camp for the night.
I was glad Pam was there as she was vocalising her appreciation of seeing and ...
Rock Collectors
... from the White Desert then through more amazing landscapes, rocks, sand dunes. Stopped at a place Mustafa called the Magic Tree, it looks like a wattle tree and had heaps of birds, bees & dragonflies all over it. I think it is called magic because at one stage it has fallen over totally and only 1 or 2 roots are still in the ground, but the tree manages to grow and flower. Drove again to a tiny oasis with a spring called Ain Khadra. There are so ...
Last trip in Egypt -Dessert + Oasis
... us into 2 jeeps to start our dessert safari.
First stop- COLD SPRING! It was so hot in the dessert and everyone was sweaty and cover with sand after the jeep ride, the strong warm wind kept blowing sand and dirt into our face … The cold spring comes from water underneath the dessert and that's the reason why there’s an Oasis in middle of the dessert. After the refreshing cold spring, we entered into a nice a relaxing house with almost no sunlight coming through. We ...