Oasis Panorama Hotel Bawiti

... erosion of the mountains which have spread a layer of black powder over the ground. <br>Here we climbed up Gebel Az-Zuqaq, a mountain known for its red, yellow and orange streaks. From the top we surveyed to the horizon the beauty of the Black Desert. <br>From here a driver got a bit creative with his driving, you know you are going to have a good time when the driver enjoys what he is doing. Up and over sand dunes just for the thrill of ...

... but just didn't know how to get there) while Dino was encouraging the touts Shona was speaking to one very helpful person that instructed her to ignore all these people because they are all lier's and go straight to the tourist information center just down the road.<br>One of the touts tried to tell us that most likely the tourist information center was shut because it was after 1pm. We said "We will see for ourselves than won't we."<br>Needless to say the ...

... We had the ipod playing on the radio and back seat full of cold beer. It was a good afternoon. It was warm, but there was a nice breeze so we never felt too hot. Marianne decided to do the steamroller trick down one of the dunes and came back with her pants full of sand. It also scrambled her pretty good beacuse after getting back in the car for about 20 minutes, she got car sick. She bounced back right away ...

... we needed to get back in time to go pick up Daryl from school. We got to his school out in New Cairo City (a strange place with lots of money and tons of new, weirdly grand construction.) We toured his school and he introduced us to some of his teachers. We said goodbye to Morgan and hopped into the back of Tito's car (Tito is not his real name - Daryl has a ...

... warning of potential terrorist threats in the region, I feel somehow detached. In my mind, the Cairo that was attacked is not my Cairo where I have lived and studied for the past two months. It's the dangerous, fanatical, and incredibly angry Cairo I have occasionally read about in newspapers. It's the Cairo that Anne Coulter or Geert Wilders perpetuate in their prejudiced analyses. And it's the Cairo that I was sure I would not find once I arrived. But here ...

... and sunglasses. The other younger man is Mohamed, his main employee. Mohamed knew very little English, but he enjoyed practicing the language with us and teaching us Egyptian words too. The hotel itself was really pleasant and quiet. Each night we were there, there was only one or two other rooms occupied. There were date palms and an orange tree in its garden that were free for the taking. Breakfast was included (common in Egypt) and tea was ...

... Desert Hotel' where there are cute little huts made from natural grasses with hobbit sized doors and some funky furniture made from similar materials by a Sudanese man. The camp is 3km out of town and built next to a giant black sand hill which you can climb to get a good panorama of the surrounding desert and a forest of lush green palms, oasis style. There is a round moloka structure on the property and there is hot water and a generator. There are flies and it is hot ...

... for all of us: "interesting theory...". Again, with our lives in his hands we headed out into the black desert where we went over a sand dune a few times and sped across the burnt earth. The black desert was once a land of active volcanos which stopped erupting just 1000 years ago. There are still hills where the volcanoes used to be and the entire floor of the desert is black over top of the sand where the magma once flowed and is now ...

... who would have known the hit this game would become... We actually played three full hands where neither team finished a trip, something I have never seen, let alone seen three times in a row. The next morning, Wael complained that he dreamed about getting a "repair" card that we had so desperately needed in one of the games the night before. There are five main sites in Baharia, we checked out the Golden Mummies, which would probably be more impressive if ...