Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm (Ahmed Ramadan)
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Photos from the Eastern Salt Lake at Siwa.
- 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...
- Siwa - How To Save An Oasis
Global Post (Theodore May) Few had heard of Siwa before Neamatalla decided to begin investing there in the mid-1990s. The oasis is a nine-hour slog from Cairo in the middle of the western desert, a stone’s throw from the Libyan border. Siwa is widely...
- 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....
- Feature On Siwa Oasis
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/728/tr1.htm A feature on Siwa oasis discussing everything from the archaeology and natural history in the oasis area to the best hotels and "ecolodges" in which you can stay. I never had much motivation to visit Siwa,...
Egypt
Travel: Siwa
Al Masry Al Youm (Ahmed Ramadan)
Wilfred Jennings-Bramly, who journeyed to Siwa in 1896, wrote that the oasis “cannot be said to have fallen from its high estate...only it has stood still while the world went on,” which might be the most honest description of the quiet, sleepy place that lies in the heart of the great Egyptian Sand Sea.
This oasis can easily be considered a center of Egypt’s backwaters, as it still holds the features of a small and anachronistic village. With its traditions and costumes still intact, visitors feel a little as if they are taking a trip back in history to an era they would never have dreamed of witnessing first hand.
While Jennings-Bramly and his entourage traveled to the oasis by horseback on a journey that might have for weeks--starting from Farfra, an oasis closer to Cairo--my friends and I took the West Delta bus that passes through the desert via a relatively newly-opened road (operating only since the 1980s) and allows for easier transportation to the famous spot.
travelartphotography.com
Photos from the Eastern Salt Lake at Siwa.
- 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...
- Siwa - How To Save An Oasis
Global Post (Theodore May) Few had heard of Siwa before Neamatalla decided to begin investing there in the mid-1990s. The oasis is a nine-hour slog from Cairo in the middle of the western desert, a stone’s throw from the Libyan border. Siwa is widely...
- 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....
- Feature On Siwa Oasis
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/728/tr1.htm A feature on Siwa oasis discussing everything from the archaeology and natural history in the oasis area to the best hotels and "ecolodges" in which you can stay. I never had much motivation to visit Siwa,...