Egypt without WDT

Shared Taxi at Solum Border (Lybia - Egypt)

Solum, Egypt

What shall we have for dinner tonight? (some of our supplies...)

Our first campspot in Egypt

We now have Egyptian licence plates

Streets in Egypt are also straight and usually good

Arriving in the Oasis town Siwa after 350 km of dry and flat desert

near Siwa

Siwa Mosque with Citadel 'Shali' behind

Citadel Shali from Siwa downtown square

Our first night in a hotel - the nice Shali Lodge

Shali Lodge, Siwa, Egypt

Shali Lodge restaurant

Oracle of Siwa, where Alexander the Great came for advice some 2300 years ago

Siwa oasis, seen from Oracle temple

Siwa has two large lakes

The Great Sand Sea starts just behind Siwa

And with a permit, one can drive there. There are 2 springs near Siwa in the Great Sand Sea

First real sand experience with the Toyota

Driving in the sand goes well

Great Sand Sea, near Siwa, Egypt

Fish in lake of Great Sand Sea near Siwa

Fish

Great Sand Sea, near Siwa, Egypt

Wildlife in Great Sand Sea

Great Sand Sea, near Siwa, Egypt

First time stuck

had to drive down backwards (it was very steep...)

we first tried using sand plates

which then had to be carried up, as we made it in the second attempt without problems

Great Sand Sea, near Siwa, Egypt

There were many relicts from the underwater world (shells, corals, etc.)

we met a tourgroup of 89 year old Italian Ladies with their drivers on a sunset tour to the dunes

Cleopatras Bath, Siwa - our campspot one night, with pleasant early morning swim in the 29 c warm water (only Reto)

Causeway through Siwa lake going East toward Barhariya

Siwa lake

40 c hot spring in Siwa oasis

Road Siwa to Bahariya, about 8 cars a day, with some sandy patches

Road Siwa to Bahariya

Road Siwa to Bahariya, one of the ~8 vehicles per day

Road Siwa to Bahariya

Our campspot near Bahariya oasis

Breakfast at our campspot near Bahariya

Road Bahariya to Cairo

Road Bahariya to Cairo (350 km)

next to the road Bahariya - Cairo

next to the road Bahariya to Cairo

Road Bahariya to Cairo (350 km)

Our first glimpse of the Giza Pyramids!

Our second glimpse of the Giza Pyramids

Giza Pyramids, when coming from Bahariya

The Pyramids are surprisingly big

View from our room in Giza, in the Siag Pyramid Hotel

Sunset in Giza

Light and Sound show at the Giza Pyramids

Shared Taxi at Solum Border (Lybia - Egypt)