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Travel Blogs from Siwa
Don't Leave Anyone Behind in the Desert!
... crazy at all though. You literally pull up, pass one guy the permission forms and while he is checking them out, our drivers sit and drink tea with the other soldiers on duty. They are thorough though. They kept counting us and checking to make sure numbers matched. I guess they worry about someone purposely being left behind in the desert or being picked up near the border. We had one stop along the way, at a ...
The Egyptian Road Less Travelled
... are farmed for dates, along with many olive trees. Before leaving I ate date pancakes and bought a box of almond-stuffed dates, which were much better than those I tried at work after a girl in engineering brought some back I think from India. Anyway, the German girls are even more crazily rushing thru Egypt, so Frances and I continued (short 2) to see the sunset over the lake-like oasis, and the following day rented bicycles, and essentially rode ...
This is more like it
... 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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Siwa Oasis!
... and returned to our hotel, where we showered, changed, and checked out. At 10:00am, our bus left Siwa, and we arrived back in Alexandria at about 7:00pm (after stopping briefly along the way at Marsah Matruh and other towns). Our trip to Siwa was very short, but it was great to see a smaller town (Siwa has about 35,000 residents) and the Bedouin culture there.
We now only have one week and change left of class (my final is one week from today!).
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Hello Siwa
... good measure. Everyone involved had to push and tow the weak
link in the wind and rain with all the landmarks and tracks covered or
blurred out. It was a little unsettling for a short while, but things
cleared ...
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