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The White Desert

Western Desert Scenery

Amazing Landscape of Desert-Sculpted Rock

Western Desert, Egypt

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The soft chalk of the White Desert emerge from shifting sand dunes to be eroded into strange shapes that make for a surreal landscape popular with desert explorers. Sculpted into strange shapes a nigh...

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Bahariya

Camels in dunes

Gateway to the Western Desert

Western Desert, Egypt

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Lying some 376km southwest of Cairo Bahariya is the gateway to the Western Desert, home to friendly oasis people descended from Bedouin and site of the Valley of the Golden Mummies. Travellers come he...

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Dakhla

Barefoot explorer

Mud-Brick Ghost-Towns

Western Desert, Egypt

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Located south Dakhla is an ancient oasis inhabited as far back as Pharaonic times. Famous for the crumbling yet still-inhabited mud-brick town of al Qasr, travellers are amazed by the lushness of the ...

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Siwa

Camels in dunes

Berber Town with Links to Alexander the Great

Western Desert, Egypt

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Just 60km east of the Libyan border Siwa presents more adventurous travellers with yet another opportunity to see something they did expect in this country of contrasts. Associations with Alexander th...

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Gilf Kebir and Jebel Uweinat

Into the wilderness

Explore a Truly Remote Desert

Western Desert, Egypt

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The Western Desert oases of Egypt are remote in comparison to other desert towns of the world, however intrepid travellers leave them far behind as they head southwest to the Gilf Kebir, Jebel Uweinat...

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