Siwa Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today was a great day even if I didn't have a swim. We were supposed to cycle around town and I definitely wasn't going to be doing that so Patricia and I had a donkey calesh ride which is pretty much a donkey pulling a small cart that you can sit in. We weren't the only lazy ones though - Willy and Kelvin and Lex and Heather took the calesh as ...

A majority of our day today has been spent driving but that is not to say it is all we have done. As I mentioned last night, we were able to have a lie in which for me meant getting up at 8. For those who felt brave enough to go for a swim, it was an earlier start. It is a shame we have only been able to spend one night in our 5 star accommodati...

Apart from getting a little upset with a group of white travellers who were managing to disrupt the whole bus the 10 hour journey wasn't too bad (ignoring my painful tailbone)... so we arrived about 5am in Siwa, just as the sun was starting to rise and hoped that the lonely planet map had the correct scale and walked into town since there was no...

From Cairo we took a comfortable train to Alexandria, Egypt's 2nd largest city, which sits right on the Mediterranean. We only stopped for one night: nice corniche along the water, checked out Fort Qaitbey and then their famous library. That's right, we traveled halfway around the world to see a library. Nice library though. Lotta books. Then we...

Attended the Festival of Peace which celebrates the end of a series of long ago hostilities between two warring Siwa factions. The highlight is a dinner for all of the Siwan community and their guests. Afterward the men of the community go through a ritualized prayer and dance ceremony. The pictures and video shoud explain better than my words.