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Travel Blogs from Siwa
Afslapning i Oerkenen
Vi kom til Siwa efter en fin bustur gennem oerkenen, dog med flere lange stop undervejs til stor frustration for Malte.
Vi tog en aeselvogn ud til vores hotel som laa 5 km udenfor Siwa. Midt ude i ingenting. Vi var de eneste gaester, saa der var helt stille og stille. Der var kun en der arbejdede der og vi aftalte loebende hvornaar og hvad …
The Egyptian Road Less Travelled
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[[Arabic itself is interesting in that there are multiple words with the same meaning, and in addition to it's cursive-like print, it varies to accentuate words sometimes for little more than aesthetic appeal. Also, numbers are different, and most things don't have price tags. Including the hole in the wall hotels we had in Siwa and Alexandria. ]]
Having exhausted the sights to see in Siwa, we stopped over for dinner in ...
Cycling and dominoes
... Valley of the Kings where the nobles were buried in about the 5th Century BC. We noticed that the drawings on the walls of the tombs, while pretty much of the same things we'd seen in the other tombs, were drawn much more finely, like with thinner brushes, and there was no bas relief carving. Only two small tombs, anyway, that were worth entering, but there seemed to be dozens and dozens that were not.
From there we went to the ...
Hello Siwa
... legitimate ruler of Egypt-according to the prophecy.
Remains
of the Temple. We continued our ride down the road to the Temple of Umm
Obeyda. There was only one wall left standing while the rest of it ...
Weekend in Siwa (Part 2)
... the exit on the highway to get back to Dokki in Cairo what did he do? Well since it's Cairo, he backed the bus up in the middle of highway traffic a good half a mile and took the right exit. Adventures all over the place! We got home around 9:30pm and I went back to the apartment to get ready for class at 8am the next morning..ughhh. But like I said, it was worth it- It was such an adventure and I cannot wait until our next weekend trip later this month! I LOVE the ...
Other places to stay in Siwa
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Siwa Dream Lodge
next to Gabal Elmouta, Siwa | Hotelfrom $35 -
Cleopatra Hotel
El Sadat Street, Siwa | Hotel -
Albabenshal
Downtown Siwa, Siwa | Hotelfrom $46 -
Ghaliet Ecolodge & Spa
Siwa Oasis, Siwa | Hotelfrom $79
* Exact location of hotel not known. City map shown. 