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
An American's experiences in Egypt blog (Shane S.) An account of a trip to Siwa, with lots of photographs (some just show people standing in front of things, on things and running around things, but there are also some great shots of archaeological...
- Travel: Siwa. Date Palms And A Toy Gun
WA Today At the gateway to the Great Sand Sea, David Wroe is enchanted by a remote Berber oasis that time (almost) forgot. The long drive south from the Mediterranean coast to Siwa, Egypt's farthest-flung oasis, is bleak but beautiful - at least...
- City Of Salt - Siwa
Al Ahram Weekly (Injy El-Kashef) This oasis, about 80km long and 20km wide, located nearly 50km east of the Libyan border between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea, is in fact home to some 23,000 Amazigh Berbers, who form a separate ethnic...
- Eternal Siwa
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7267"At 12,000 years and counting, the lush oasis of Siwa is ancient on a scale that makes the Pyramids seem like teenagers. To a first-time visitor, the town can seem from another world — a place where...
Egypt
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. Which is not wrong, the asphalted road opened first in 1984. But the history goes deep beyond the earliest civilisations, to Paleolithic times. In the first millennium BC, Siwa was famous with the ancient Egyptians, thanks to its oracle. The oracle was thought to be so true and powerful that it generated fear. During these times, Siwa was a wealthy place, well illustrated by the Gebel al-Mawta and its rich tombs. In early Islamic times, Siwa went into decline and sometime in the 13th century was down as little as 200. Today the population is on the rise, and has since long passed 20,000. Most live in the town Siwa, the rest are spread across over 10 smaller villages. How to go there From Cairo by bus from the International Bus Station (El Torgman) Fares vary between LE85 and LE165. From Marsa Matrouh by bus from the bus station. Tickets vary between LE30and LE95."
This is the complete article on the Egyptian Gazette website. The page will probably be replaced in the next day or so.
- 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
An American's experiences in Egypt blog (Shane S.) An account of a trip to Siwa, with lots of photographs (some just show people standing in front of things, on things and running around things, but there are also some great shots of archaeological...
- Travel: Siwa. Date Palms And A Toy Gun
WA Today At the gateway to the Great Sand Sea, David Wroe is enchanted by a remote Berber oasis that time (almost) forgot. The long drive south from the Mediterranean coast to Siwa, Egypt's farthest-flung oasis, is bleak but beautiful - at least...
- City Of Salt - Siwa
Al Ahram Weekly (Injy El-Kashef) This oasis, about 80km long and 20km wide, located nearly 50km east of the Libyan border between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea, is in fact home to some 23,000 Amazigh Berbers, who form a separate ethnic...
- Eternal Siwa
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7267"At 12,000 years and counting, the lush oasis of Siwa is ancient on a scale that makes the Pyramids seem like teenagers. To a first-time visitor, the town can seem from another world — a place where...