Have you been to Siwa oasis?

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I did 7 years ago. I arrived in the evening and wandered about in the evening. It was a beautiful place. I visited the mudbrick ruins in town as the sun was setting and heard the call to prayer.

The next day I rented a bike and did a circle around the area seeing some of the crumbling ruins of the old oracle where Alexander the Great was confirmed that he was indeed Great and also the Temple of Amon. I took a swim in Cleopatra's Pool

At one of the salt lakes I watched the sun dip down. It had a very primordial feel to it with the oasis vegetation and the hard rock formations surrounding it. It looked like something out of the dinosaur age.

I wrote this email shortly after about my brief visit:
Siwa was very nice. The oasis looked like a
primordial landscape with tall palm trees swaying in
the breeze, rippling lakes glistening in the
sunlight while in the distance, large monolithic rocky hills
rose from the desert floor bordering this 'lost
world'. As I watched the sun set from one of Siwa's
lakes, I almost expected to see a lumbering
brontosaurus come rumbling down to the water's edge
to slake his thrist and overhead teradactlys would
swirl in gracefuls arcs supported on the hot desert air. A
Tyranosaurus, sleek and massive, would emerge from
the forest to gaze solemnly at the setting sun and sniff
respectfully of the cooling breath of the dying day before savagely devouring the aforementioned brontosaurus.

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my Friend went there he tells me that it is wonderfull
SHALOM

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2alak shalom...ya333 bgd

i never been there but i heard a lot a bout it , everybody says it's amazing...oasis in egypt are beautiful and gorgeous...
i'm getting ready next winter inshallah to go on a trip called 8 days around egypt...we camp in the desert, pass by siwa, dakhla, kharga oasis, then to luxor, going up to marsa allam, then to hurgadah, gouna n finally to cairo...it's a gr8 experience my friend says n i'm willing to try this trip inshallah....
Egyptian butterfly
yeah , from 3 months ago.

It was good , calm , alot of water springs (3eyoun)

we went to water factory (haya water) and it was nice to see the production of water.

we went and visit 3 mountains (gabal el mawtaa) alot of skeletons everywhere and 2 others with old villages and very old mosque .

we see (3eyoon maya) springs , very nice .
and i drink from one of them.
but many of them are not clean.
Siwa in general is not clean , but healthy air , no pollution at all.
kind people , but lazy little bit.

we visit an environmental village (ranking between the top 20 all over the world) all things from natural sources. no electricity , no pollution, but expensive .

if you want to swim, u can but still not very nice.

long distance to siwa.

Please if you want another info or number of people there (travel agents) or pictures from there please contact me:
reikominder@yahoo.com

I wish you nice visit and happy vacation.

p.s.: it was winter so the weather was so good, i don't know now what is it alike?
i've never been there but once read that girls get married or engaged at the age of 9!
so i am 3anes by there standards.....nyahhahahhahah