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The Egyptian Road Less Travelled
... which we opted for a steak house according to Lonely Planet. The menu was entirely in Arabic and the meats were ordered by the kilogram; overall decent, but overcooked. Later in Alexandria, we ordered similarly in a seafood restaurant, selecting fresh sea bass and calamari to take advantage of the Mediterranean's bounty. In Alex, our clueless taxi driver knew of none of the hotels in our guide book, and even after asking other drivers could for ...
Cycling and dominoes
... dated around the 3rd Century BC. Apparently Alexander the Great visited the place and had himself named as a deity there, in 33BC.
We stopped after that at the Temple of Amun, all of which remains is a single wall with a bit of carving on it.
Then to Cleopatra’s Spring, which has nothing to do with Cleopatra but was an interesting place with a couple of coffee houses around a very deep pool, fed by a spring at ...
Hello Siwa
... 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 ...
Weekend in Siwa (Part 2)
... is the best time of my life!" around 3 million times. We drove up and down sand dunes (which are basically moving mountains)- the wind was BRUTAL on this day. We would go up and down the dunes, hold on tight yell and scream, because it felt exactly like a roller coaster ride.
We came to a stop at the bottom of a dune and got out of the car- WHAM! sand in my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my shoes, my hair- Immediately! I didn't care. I leaped over to the other ...
The Oracle of Siwa
... a yes or no question to, and then someone would pick it up, and if it pointed to the right, it meant yes, and left was no. The oracle was so famous that Alexander the Great ended up traveling through 300 km of desert on horseback just to ask it three questions. Nobody knows what the questions were, but it is said that he came out of the room of the oracle smiling.
The temple itself lost its roof a long time ago, ...
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