Al-Babinshal
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The Egyptian Road Less Travelled
... in asking for a tip every time either of us passed him on the way to the bathroom. Egyptians don't quite understand providing an actual service to deserve a tip, but we explained he would get a tip the next morning. Ironically, why he didn't just ask for more for the room and pocket the difference amazed me.
We checked out the main museum, some Roman catacombs, Pompey's Pillar, a large modern mosque , and an old Islamic castle ...
Cheese, cheese and jam
... notes describe this drive as "extraordinary" and I suppose it was, in a way, by its monotony. The drivers tried to spice it up a little with a couple of detours from the sealed road and forays into the desert, but the occupants of the other vehicle put paid to that with a complaint to Ahmed about the speed and from then on we pretty much stuck to the tarmac at ...
Siwa Oasis!
... way down to the lobby of the hotel, which was full of empty fire-extinguishers. After we were told the fire was out, we decided to go for our run, and as we left the ground floor the entire entrance was full of a fire-extinguishing chemical powder that the fire department had sprayed. As it turns out, the main electrical connection to the building (housed in a small plastic/fiberglass box at the entrance to the building) had caught fire, sending billows of smoke up ...
Hello Siwa
... rotten eggs?
Greco-Roman
tombs in the Al Maraqi area. Apparently the Roman's fancied the idea of
sealing up and hiding the dead in the sides of mountains. We saw
several mountainside ...
Weekend in Siwa (Part 2)
... some time here, got back into the cars, and drove like crazy up and down dunes until we stopped at the very top of one. This is where we were going to go Sand boarding (like snowboarding on the sand)!!! This hill was steeper than anything I've ever been down, and even the Bedouin drivers were questioning the safety of it. I guess they decided it was ok, so they got sand boards out of their cars and we got set up. I was hoping there would be a bunny hill for beginners like ...
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