Egypt
- Fire In Siwa Caused By Smugglers, But Archaeology Safe
Ahram Online A fire that destroyed over 1700 hectares of farmland in the Siwa Oasis on Tuesday was started deliberately by border smuggling gangs, a local tribal leader has claimed. The attacks were in revenge for requests by local leaders for border...
- Travel : Siwa Oasis
Al Ahram Weekly (Ameera Fouad) Once upon a time, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus said he knew a fountain of the sun that ran coldest in the noontide heat. Once upon a time, Queen Cleopatra made herself a bath and a spring in which to bathe in the...
- Siwa - An Oasis Like No Other
Egypt Today (Erika Sherk) There is no place in Egypt like Siwa. Tourists and residents alike are well acquainted with the chi-chi five-star resorts on the North Coast, the chill-out beach camps on the Red Sea and the environmentally-friendly ecolodges...
- Travel: Siwa Oasis
PR-GB.com I've stopped posting even short travel posts to travel stories along the lines of "the pyramids were big and I rode a camel", but this piece might be of interest to anyone thinking of travel to Siwa. It's not long but it is informative....
- Travel: Siwa Oasis
http://www.gom.com.eg/gazette/tourism/detail_8_90.shtmlSiwa: the sweetest oasis by "Mohamed Salah Attia Siwa appears at first as a sweet and innocent place deep in the desert which has just opened its eyes to the modern world and still let itself be amazed....
Egypt
Photo for Today: Essam and Nasr, Siwa 2008
Bonfires are not permitted in the desert areas with local wood because
insects and animals depend upon them. So you either take your own wood
or you wait until you are on the edges of civilization before you light one.
In this case we were on the outskirts of Siwa oasis and the drivers had gone into town
to replenish our supplies. They were donated a dead tree by a local shopkeeper
and they hauled this back to camp trailing along the ground, attached to the
kitchen car. It lasted for hours and hours and was a lovely end to the
desert camping, The next five nights back to Cairo via Siwa, Bahariya
and the Faiyum were spent in hotels.
We all missed the desert but - oh how I loved those showers!
insects and animals depend upon them. So you either take your own wood
or you wait until you are on the edges of civilization before you light one.
In this case we were on the outskirts of Siwa oasis and the drivers had gone into town
to replenish our supplies. They were donated a dead tree by a local shopkeeper
and they hauled this back to camp trailing along the ground, attached to the
kitchen car. It lasted for hours and hours and was a lovely end to the
desert camping, The next five nights back to Cairo via Siwa, Bahariya
and the Faiyum were spent in hotels.
We all missed the desert but - oh how I loved those showers!
- Fire In Siwa Caused By Smugglers, But Archaeology Safe
Ahram Online A fire that destroyed over 1700 hectares of farmland in the Siwa Oasis on Tuesday was started deliberately by border smuggling gangs, a local tribal leader has claimed. The attacks were in revenge for requests by local leaders for border...
- Travel : Siwa Oasis
Al Ahram Weekly (Ameera Fouad) Once upon a time, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus said he knew a fountain of the sun that ran coldest in the noontide heat. Once upon a time, Queen Cleopatra made herself a bath and a spring in which to bathe in the...
- Siwa - An Oasis Like No Other
Egypt Today (Erika Sherk) There is no place in Egypt like Siwa. Tourists and residents alike are well acquainted with the chi-chi five-star resorts on the North Coast, the chill-out beach camps on the Red Sea and the environmentally-friendly ecolodges...
- Travel: Siwa Oasis
PR-GB.com I've stopped posting even short travel posts to travel stories along the lines of "the pyramids were big and I rode a camel", but this piece might be of interest to anyone thinking of travel to Siwa. It's not long but it is informative....
- Travel: Siwa Oasis
http://www.gom.com.eg/gazette/tourism/detail_8_90.shtmlSiwa: the sweetest oasis by "Mohamed Salah Attia Siwa appears at first as a sweet and innocent place deep in the desert which has just opened its eyes to the modern world and still let itself be amazed....