After spending a day in Alexandria I took an overnight bus to the Siwa oasis which is located near the border of Libya. This is the view from my hotel window. Hotel room was 40 Egyptian Pounds which is about $7 USD. The village is surrounded by a mass of palm trees and a lake past the palms. A quiet little town but well worth the journey into the desert. I rented a bike for a day and spent the day roaming around. These are the ruins that was once the village where people lived up until the 1920's when there was a rain storm that lasted 3 days which destroyed their mud brick homes.
They have since rebuilt their town around the old one but still use the old mud brick type of construction.
Donkey transportation. I'm still trying to figure out the 4x4?!?
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