Egypt
- Travel: Dakhla Oasis
New Stuff We will be starting our journey in the footsteps of Rohlfs this December 2009 from Dakhla Oasis. Below is some information about the place. Dakhla is among the most remote oases being far from both Cairo and Luxor. To get there from Cairo you...
- Travel: Sahara Safari
Deccan Herald (Arjun Manjunath) A description of a brief trip to Farafra's splendid White Desert. The reference to "the most amazing desert cheese" made me feel like abandoning rainy London and getting straight on a plane! Gibna beida is something...
- Farafra Oasis Daily Photo - Explanation
I posted a couple of photographs of the fabulous White Desert, which lies just to the north of Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert. A couple of people have emailed to ask me more about the formations shown in the photographs, so here's a short explanation....
- 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...
- Desert Day Trips
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6594"A travel article on the Tour Egypt website about traveling in comfort in the oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: "You don’t have to be a diehard camper to enjoy the beauty of Egypt’s Western...
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The Western Desert Oasis of Farafra
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6465
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6465
It is very nice to see a travel review of one of the wonderful Western Desert oases, this the remote and untouched of all the oases: "The White Desert beckons, with its vast landscape of gorgeous statues, all carved naturally from pure white chalk. The assortment of rock formations is beyond comprehension, each formation carries its own posture and its own aura — a giant eagle, a weeping lady, a proud man and the White Desert’s most famous, The Mushroom. At the end of the day, it is an indescribable feeling to go back to Farafra and immerse yourself in the bubbling hot water of Bir Sitta (well number six), a spring that serves as a natural Jacuzzi.
If you’re staying more than a day or two, check out Ain Dalla with its sweet tasting spring water and lovely landscape, the gigantic whale-size dunes of the Great Sand Sea, and the tantalizing stalactites and stalagmites of Djarra Cave."
A Nile Tour
If you’re staying more than a day or two, check out Ain Dalla with its sweet tasting spring water and lovely landscape, the gigantic whale-size dunes of the Great Sand Sea, and the tantalizing stalactites and stalagmites of Djarra Cave."
A Nile Tour
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/living/14010059.htm
One person's account of a holiday that takes in Luxor, the Giza pyramids, Saqqara and the Cairo Museum. This may well be a repeat, published elsewhere previously, because there's something vaguely familiar about it, but to be honest there are so many of these travel pieces that I've stopped reading them fully. This one does offer more insight than most: "The three main pyramids are surrounded by smaller tombs of queens and other royalty. At the base of the hill is the Sphinx, equally impressive, who today stares across a short field at Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Cairo, a jumbled and still-expanding metropolitan area of nearly 20 million, has begun to crowd inside the monuments' shadows. But just a few miles upriver, near the ancient capital of Memphis, the very first pyramid of Djoser stands out above small villages and crop fields. Djoser's Step Pyramid is surrounded by the remnants of a wall, and other monuments, and is an engrossing afternoon jaunt without the jostling crowds at Giza."
- Travel: Dakhla Oasis
New Stuff We will be starting our journey in the footsteps of Rohlfs this December 2009 from Dakhla Oasis. Below is some information about the place. Dakhla is among the most remote oases being far from both Cairo and Luxor. To get there from Cairo you...
- Travel: Sahara Safari
Deccan Herald (Arjun Manjunath) A description of a brief trip to Farafra's splendid White Desert. The reference to "the most amazing desert cheese" made me feel like abandoning rainy London and getting straight on a plane! Gibna beida is something...
- Farafra Oasis Daily Photo - Explanation
I posted a couple of photographs of the fabulous White Desert, which lies just to the north of Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert. A couple of people have emailed to ask me more about the formations shown in the photographs, so here's a short explanation....
- 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...
- Desert Day Trips
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6594"A travel article on the Tour Egypt website about traveling in comfort in the oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: "You don’t have to be a diehard camper to enjoy the beauty of Egypt’s Western...