CHEAPSKATE TRAVEL

Siwa dessert-tour

TOURS - Egypt

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introduction

Almost every restaurant and hotel can book a tour to the desert for you; both with a camel and jeep for half a day or for several days. Ask for different options because it seems that most of the time they don’t have enough people for every different kind of tour.

TIME: 05:45 - 12:00 and from 18:30 - 07:30
PRICE: 50 EP
PERSONS: 5x (excluding guide)

INCLUDED:

Licences (10 EP);
Transport (to and from the sights from Siwa);
Guide (reasonable speaking English);
Breakfast (1x), Diner (1x).

content tour:

PART I :

05:45 departure from hostel with jeep;
To the beginning of the sand dunes (view sunrise);
Through dunes to the oasis and visit mud village Ain Safi;
To Abu Shuruf where there is a (water) source;
To Az-Zeitun for the salt lake;
At 12:00 back in Siwa (arrange your own lunch).

PART II:

18: 30 a visit tot he Temple and oracle of Amon;
Tot the bath of Cleopatra (you can make a little swim);
Dinner and sleep in the desert (on mats and sleeping bag);
Looking at sunrise in the morning.

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