Nevertheless,
after
three full days in this gigantic town it was a time for a new
adventure. So, I went to the western desert. I spent some days in the
small village of Farafra in the middle of a nice oasis with a lot of
shady palm trees. This was a picture book oasis, life with donkey carts,
fresh fruit and vegetables, splashing water in irrigation channels and
friendly people.
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| White Desert, Egypt |
At
the moment there are only a few tourists in Egypt. This for sure has
something to do with the heat (40 degrees Celsius in May in the oases is
not uncommon) and of course it has something to do with the
revolution. The revolution made many tourists cancel their trip to
Egypt. This affects the
whole tourism industry there - the camel drivers at the
pyramids as well as the safari enterprises in the desert and the
souvenir sellers in Luxor. The horse carriage people, hotel owners and
Felukka owners at the Nile. Everybody suffers from the fact that the
tourists are missing. The fighting around the few tourists, who are
there, is big. However in Farafra I was the only tourist. I spent there
three days!
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My
aim was the white desert. It is just 25 kilometers from Farafra. I
have been here before and I absolutely wanted to go back. In this desert
there are a lot of white limestone rocks - and they rise in all
possible formations from the yellowish sand. Every a more or less
imaginative person sees all possible animals in this rock. Camels,
ostriches and ducks, but also mushrooms
and towers. Just great.
I was doing my desert tour with Hamdy, a
safari enterpriser from Farafra. With us, there was a young man for
cooking, building the camp etc.
The
day in the white desert was simply great - of course also for taking
photos. I had all time of the world, as we stayed overnight. So, I got
good photos in the late afternoon, the sunset and the sunrise. I hope
that I find a good and fast internet place here, and then I can load
some photos. Most internet places are dreadfully slow and they cannot
deal with a big amount of data. Then, the whole system might break
down.
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| White desert, Egypt |
