| Fayoum
Oasis |
The triangular
depression of Fayoum looks like a delta. Near Cairo, and easily accessible
along a well paved highway, Fayoum can be explored in a series of pleasant
day trips and offers a wide variety of activities from boating, swimming
and fishing, to visiting antiquities, bird watching, and searching for
fossils. |
| Baharia
Oasis |
The closest
Oasis to Cairo in kilometers, but the most distant Oasis in time, and the
one that has been slow to move into the modern world. For the travelers
in search of the past, this is a wonderful experience. It has plenty of
ancient sites to illustrate its importance in antiquity. |
| Farafra
Oasis |
 
Its isolation
created a special world, a world of eternal sunshine and incredible beauty.
Peaceful and serene, its rugged landscape contain some of the most spectacular
scenery in the Western Dessert. |
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| Dakhla
Oasis |
The beige
and brown landscape of Kharga is replaced with golden sand, red earth,
a pastel escarpment and vibrant green fields. Dakhla bathes in spectacular
colour, with its prehistoric cemeteries, Old Kingdom villages, and islamic
fortress towns, lying east to west near the edge of the escarpment along
the Darb El Ghabari. |
| Siwa
Oasis |
Different
in appearance, dress and language, the Siwans are unique. In Siwa, Alexander
The Great, founder of the city of Alexandria, left his marks, while he
was on a long journey into the Libyan desert. he died in Siwa and was pronounced
God. |
| Kharga
Oasis |
| Kharga,
whose bold name seems to perfectly sum up the character of its environment,
is the most popular oasis of the Western desert. It offers a variety of
sites of interest to the visitor, including ancient fortress and villages,
in kharga it is the landscape that most overwhelms the traveler. For it
is in Kharga that we encounter the desert as we had always imagined the
desert to be. |
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