Egypt
Des Moines Register
A very brief description of a tour to the Western Desert oases.
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http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7266"A short drive out of the city will put you in a whole new world of vast dunes and bare rock. There’s so much to see and experience that you don’t necessarily have to be a happy camper to enjoy...
Egypt
Travel: Western Desert
Des Moines Register
A very brief description of a tour to the Western Desert oases.
We drove through the Kharga Depression, which contains one of the largest fields of small yardangs - rock ridges caused by wind and water erosion.The next day we traveled to the Dakhla Oasis, the largest oasis in the Western Desert. On the way, we visited several sites with primitive paintings of the Old Testament stories still visible in fourth-century dome structures.
In Dakhla, we visited the marketplace, then prepared an overnight pack for primitive camping under the stars. We trekked on camels for nearly two hours to the campsite where Bedouin men prepared the food and played neys (Egyptian flutes), rubabas (three-string violins) and other instruments during the evening campfire.
- Travel: An Oases Road Trip
Al-Masry Al-Youm (John Harris) With photos. In the past, the problem wasn’t the spectacular scenery along the way, but the transport and accommodation infrastructure that made it all accessible. Until recently, accessing the Western Desert was better...
- Travel: Out Of The Towns And Into The Lovely Oases
Egypt Today (Ali El-Bahnasawy) The sun, space and opportunity to leave behind the crowded high-tech world are what attracts adventure lovers to the boundless stretches of Egyptian desert, one of the loneliest and unspoiled places on the planet You don’t...
- Snapshots - Bashendi
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) Dakhla Oasis is one of the Western Desert's five major oases. Dakhla, a cluster of much smaller oases, might be known for its Qasr Al-Dakhla (Dakhla Palace), a maze of narrow alleyways zigzagging into a full-fledged...
- Kharga - Egypt's Frontier Oasis
Archaeology Magazine Volume 61 Number 6, November/December 2008 Details of the latest issue of Archaeology magazine are now on the publication's website. Articles include a piece by Salima Ikram on Kharga oasis, for which an abstract is available...
- Travel: Desert Day-trips
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7266"A short drive out of the city will put you in a whole new world of vast dunes and bare rock. There’s so much to see and experience that you don’t necessarily have to be a happy camper to enjoy...