Hotel Dakhla

une partie seule, une partie avec dan. Transport: train, bus Budget: hotel =3/7 e, plongée= 30e les 3 J'ai adoré : les pyramides de Kheops, Louxor, Abu Simbel, le désert blanc et l'oasis de sihoua

... into the sea. In the terrestrial elbow were kite surfers making the most of the Atlantic winds. Within 20 kilometers of Dakhla we started hitting army and police checkpoints. Being the only foreigner onboard I was constantly getting up each time to ...

1/28 Dakhla Oasis This morning is the big event- a real camel ride across the desert. The staff is finally rousted out to get us some breakfast, then we again go through the matching process and board our camels. These saddles are different- they ...

... lit) en 2 heures (il en avait en stock. Nous verrons demain, Inch'Allah. Sur Daklha, rien à dire et sur l'hotel (9 euros)encore moins, mais les cancrelats n'étaient pas encore sortis! Demain, route vers Nouadhibou en Mauritanie; avec passage de ...

... Desert (me, up at sunrise?!), Roman Temple of Deir el-Haggar, ancient tombs of Mezawaka and the Muslim village of el-Qasr. Hotel: Bedouin Camp Ground So as I mentioned, the plan changed and this wasn't the morning of the White Desert, but rather we ...

... ! Our 3 days in Marrakech proved far more successful than Fes, despite arriving in the dark to find the campsite was now a 4* hotel and having to bribe our way out of an unwitting traffic offence. The main square (Djemma El Fnaa) comes alive at night ...

... -held panorama shot of 17 photos. Its a bit crude but it works. Back on the long straight road and we finally arrive at Dakhla bay. Dakhla is actually a spit of land composed of sand with the town being at the far end. The landscape is mind-blowing and we ...

... and distance.  With its vast scale and emptiness however, it does have a certain beauty, however inhospitable it might seem. Dakhla is not a town worthy of any note.  It is a great stereotype of a "frontier town".  We arrived at ...

... 135kph in places - ahh - Egyptian drivers. After lunch at Al-Kharga and the tradition mobbing my school kids we headed towards Dakhla Oasis which was our overnight stop and stepping off point for the White Desert. Next morning we left early for a stop at ...

... driving after that, through more desert interspersed here and there with patches of green as we passed several oases.  The Stars Hotel in Dahkla is another 2- or 3-star joint with hard beds and a shower with no curtain.  Still, dinner appeared ...

... day. Drove from Farafra Oasis to Dakhla Oasis where we will spend the next two nights at another delightful hotel – Badawiya Dakhla Hotel. Of course nothing is straight forward in the Western Desert, first we needed permission from the government ...

... . After this our plans get a little  more hazy.  There's no public transport between Morocco and Mauritania.   When we get to Dakhla we need to find someone heading in our direction -  perhaps not as easy as it sounds as there are no real ...

... to say Kk got chatting to some people from on the bus while I read my book.  Upon arriving in Dakhla Kk's new found friends insisted upon showing us to a hotel they new.  It was all very nice but was a bit more expensive than we could afford, at ...

... haut lieu du surf mondial, Oualidia. Le problème avec les lieux touristiques, c'est que c'est généralement assez cher! En effet, l'hotel le moins cher revenait à quelques 150 dh (15 euros, c'est le grand luxe!) soit 100 de trop pour moi! Je errais ...

... , well I don't think I smell at least. No one has complained yet. Some of the members of the truck paid to have a shower in a hotel when we stopped in a small town earlier but I decided I wasn't dirty enough, I mean it hasn't even been hot enough to sweat ...