Siwa Villa
Travel Blogs from Siwa
Don't Leave Anyone Behind in the Desert!
... formation that is called the ship because of the way it looks. The really cool part is that the whole area used to be a sea bed so there are fossilized shells all the way up the side of this rock formation and the ground is completely littered in them. Very cool! Tonight, once we arrived in Siwa, we hiked up the ruins of the old town for sunset. It was beautiful to watch the sun dip beneath the sand dunes and ...
The Egyptian Road Less Travelled
... circuit as the taxi had taken us. The best restaurant is East-West, which is cited by both the Lonely Planet and the locals. Frances was surprised to see items on the menu she'd heard about, but never seen before. Like Sahlab (spelling?), a milky coconut, banana and cinnamon drink, dishes with couscous, and that the babaganoush was actually spicy. [[Apparently most food in Egypt is on the bland side.]]
What else... there's donkey ...
Siwa Oasis
Yep another oasis :) This was a small town, that moved at quite possibly the most relaxed pace I have ever seen - big call in Egypt. We hired bikes to ride out to see the mountain of the dead about 4km out of town - a small hill with maybe 100 tombs. We then rode on to see the temple of the oracle - where Alexander the great was proclaimed as the son of Zeus. Last stop on bikes was Cleopatras Bath - a natural spent set ...
Hello Siwa
Thanks to another religious holiday we had an opportunity to take a long weekend trip to Siwa, an oasis in the Western Desert near
the Libyan border. In an attempt to try something different, I decided
to post photos ...
Weekend in Siwa (Part 2)
... They were all handmade by the women villagers in Shali, so I bought an absolutely gorgeous scarf and felt as though I did my share to boost Shali's economy. After wandering around we ended up at the same coffee shop where I indulged in another Turkish coffee-I need to find this stuff in America for real! We headed back to the hotel around 11:30am, and the next adventure on the agenda was lunch with Bedouins!! I was looking forward to this whole trip solely because of ...