Photo of Siwa Dream Lodge
Breakfast in front of our room Courtyard and Pool Looking toward the entrance from opposite side of interior courtyard The corner of our room, fireplace is decorative

Siwa Dream Lodge

next to Gabal Elmouta Siwa, Egypt

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The Egyptian Road Less Travelled

A travel blog entry by barry0fisher

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... or even seats ridden by boys for ferrying supplies or locals from one side of town to the other. The women are all very conservative, such that they literally wear full robes from their head to their toes, mostly without even the fabric slitted to let them see easier. Most are wearing very dark colors, while many are entirely clad in pitch black cloth. Now, this time of year is rather mild during the peak of day, but still between the color ...

This is more like it

A travel blog entry by bdsearle

... was fun but incredibly tiring tramping up the dunes each time. None of us expected our driver to stop at the top of such a massive dune and steering or digging your edge into the sand is not exactly possible. The springs we went to (both hot and cold) had the more "Hollywood" Oasis appearance with small green patches in the middle of the sandy desert. Afterwards we parked on top of a massive dune for the sunset and some Siwa Tea.
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Cycling and dominoes

A travel blog entry by ricki958

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... Valley of the Kings where the nobles were buried in about the 5th Century BC. We noticed that the drawings on the walls of the tombs, while pretty much of the same things we'd seen in the other tombs, were drawn much more finely, like with thinner brushes, and there was no bas relief carving. Only two small tombs, anyway, that were worth entering, but there seemed to be dozens and dozens that were not.

From there we went to the ...

Siwa Oasis!

A travel blog entry by mjs265

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... After surviving our first Egyptian hotel fire, we went for a good run. After our run, we quickly changed and saw Dr. Reem speak about her book at the Alexandria Library.

Finally, on Wednesday, we got out of class, packed, and then headed to the bus-station to leave for Siwa. Our bus left at 10pm, and arrived in Siwa at 6:30am. In our 28 hours there, we saw quite a bit and had a great time. We checked into our hotel, and then went out in search ...

Hello Siwa

A travel blog entry by camelsandtacos

... thinking that we could
reach the island by foot (which you can) but it was just a bit further
than the map indicated so we flagged down something a little faster
than a donkey cart, it was more like a ...

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