One last Siwan tourist spot before moving along to Bahariya Oasis tomorrow, an area of fossil remains in the desert. The immense desert west of the Nile covers most of North Africa in an area that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea south to the Sudan border. Its history may go back 3 million years and [...]
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A Sea of Fossils in The Sahara Desert, Siwa, Egypt
January 23rd, 2011 
Sheila Simkin 
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Bir Wahed Cold Springs and Hot Springs, Siwa, Egypt
January 22nd, 2011 Sheila Simkin It was still darned hot when we set off at 2:00 p.m. in an non-airconditioned 4×4 for a 12 km/7 mile ride out of Siwa, following old tires in the sands that mark the roads until our driver turned off-road. (There’s no air-conditioning because vehicles need power to keep from stalling out or getting stuck [...]
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The Small Town of Siwa, Egypt
January 21st, 2011 Sheila Simkin The very little town of Siwa has a lot more Date Palms than people. Over 300,000 Date Palms rise from the sands thanks to the aquifers that carry clear, clean water underground from the Nile River. I remember drinking and passing along 5 gallon jugs of water for the next person to drink from in [...]
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The Temple of Umm Ubaydah and Cleopatra’s Pool/Spring/Bath, Siwa, Egypt
January 20th, 2011 Sheila Simkin From the House of Siwa Museum, the donkey cart trotted by Umm Ubaydah commonly known as Alexander’s temple, or what was left of it, built to honor Amun Re. This temple was once joined to the Temple of the Oracle by a causeway but only one wall remains today among the ruins of large stone [...]
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Siwa Oasis Desert Information and Trivia – Egypt
January 19th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Agriculture of dates and olives is the main activity in the oasis areas of Egypt. Below are a few facts about both: – There were groups of unmarried men who worked in the fields and gardens of their rich landowner called Zaggalah. In the past, they were bodyguards and responsible for the security of the [...]
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The Little Museum of Siwa Oasis, Egypt – How Siwans Live
January 18th, 2011 Sheila Simkin ex-Marine and I loved the breads of both Morocco and Egypt. We could have happily eaten them three times a day like the Siwans and I always watched with rapt attention whenever we can across a women baking fresh bread. A little bread information: – Traditionally, the bread was very thin and crisp but now [...]
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The Little Museum of Siwa Oasis, Egypt – Bridal Customs
January 17th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Every table in dining room with filled with chattering teens and chaperones at breakfast. Poor Ahmed told us his room was in the same section as the students and they kept him up all night. These typical high schoolers had traveled as a bus caravan from Cairo. An all night journey and still had the [...]
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The Temple of The Oracle, Siwa Oasis, Egypt
January 16th, 2011 Sheila Simkin By now, my face was beet red from the heat (little thermometer on back pack said 35 C/almost 100F) and the flies had driven me up and around the bend. Ali Baba clopped on to the famous Temple of the Oracle dedicated to the cult of Amun and dating back to the 26th Dynasty. (It [...]
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A Donkey Cart to Dead Mountain (Gebel Al-Mawta) – Siwa Oasis, Egypt
January 15th, 2011 Sheila Simkin A slow walk down from the ancient fortress of Shali where Ahmed hired a donkey cart for the ride to the Dead Mountain. It is intensely hot in Siwa, dusty, sandy and a gazillion flies that kept flying up my nose, into eyes and making us crazy! To be expected in the desert but driving [...]
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Shali, The Ancient Fortress of Siwa Oasis, Egypt
January 14th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Our hotel for the next two nights was The Siwa Paradise Hotel with a big group of Egyptian university students and one other tour group staying here besides us. We were happy with the room after we had the staff replace all the burnt out light bulbs so we could actually see and extremely grateful [...]
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