Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Ameera Fouad)
- Travel: Alexandra To Siwa
analysis-online.cn A peculiar piece of travel writing - I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It is an absolute monologue of thoughts and feelings, about both Siwa and the people the author was traveling with. In general he is more intersted in...
- 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....
- 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,...
- Dialogue With Amun
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/685/heritage.htm Al-Ahram Weekly article about the past of Siwa Oasis. This is the first issue of a two-parter and puts Siwa into its historical context, from Palaeolithic times until the Muslim invasion in 641AD. There...
Egypt
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 middle of the Western Desert. Once upon a time, a temple was built in Siwa to honour the ram-headed god Amon-Ra, housing an oracle whose fame had spread by about 700 BCE. Once upon a time, the ancient Greek poet Pindar, who lived between 522 and 443 BCE, wrote a poem about the oracle at Siwa and carved it on a stone stele.
Once upon a time, Egyptian egyptologist Zahi Hawass, former secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, made headlines when he announced that archaeologists had discovered the world's oldest human footprint while exploring a prehistoric site in Siwa. Once upon a timeÒê¦ many figures could be cited at this juncture in connection with Egypt's Siwa Oasis, though it is the "fountain of the sun" at Siwa that is perhaps the most celebrated.
Siwa is like no other oasis in Egypt.
- Travel: Alexandra To Siwa
analysis-online.cn A peculiar piece of travel writing - I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It is an absolute monologue of thoughts and feelings, about both Siwa and the people the author was traveling with. In general he is more intersted in...
- 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....
- 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,...
- Dialogue With Amun
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/685/heritage.htm Al-Ahram Weekly article about the past of Siwa Oasis. This is the first issue of a two-parter and puts Siwa into its historical context, from Palaeolithic times until the Muslim invasion in 641AD. There...