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The Egyptian Road Less Travelled
... are farmed for dates, along with many olive trees. Before leaving I ate date pancakes and bought a box of almond-stuffed dates, which were much better than those I tried at work after a girl in engineering brought some back I think from India. Anyway, the German girls are even more crazily rushing thru Egypt, so Frances and I continued (short 2) to see the sunset over the lake-like oasis, and the following day rented bicycles, and essentially rode ...
This is more like it
... flies on their face. This town has more donkeys than all the other places put together it seems. There are more donkeys than motorbikes and more motorbikes than cars. All the roads are dirt and it's hard to tell the difference between homes and old ruins. The masses of palm trees on the edge of the town were great to wander through but the flies got on your nerves pretty quickly.
A few of us took an extra option ...
Siwa Oasis!
... and Lange and some of the girls cried for a bit... It was quite funny.
On Tuesday, I finished Three Cups of Tea (my mom has been telling me to read it for years now) and then prepared for a run. However when I opened my hotel-room door, smoke billowed in, accompanied by a foul electrical smell. The power had gone out a few minutes earlier, and we concluded there must be an electrical fire. Sure enough, after I had changed out of my running clothes, we ...
Hello Siwa
... the salt/mud brick fortress of Shali.
Shali
was built in the early 1200's and abandoned after the rains in 1926
when most of the structures were destroyed (mud+salt+rain=no bueno for
the Shali ...
Weekend in Siwa (Part 2)
... bathing suits which I thought was a joke. Really? We're going swimming in the desert? Who does that? Our driver was a native Shali man, dressed in a full white garment and wasn't the most cheerful guy, but he kept us alive so, whatever. Matthew told us before we left to hold on to the roof when it got too rough, especially if we flipped upside down. UM WHAT? I was legitimately freaking out and felt like we were about to embark on a roller coaster ride that I was too scared ...


