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Favorite thing: When we reached the tarred road at the last day of our desert trip and I saw our bus allready from a far distance, I realized, I had to say goodbye to the desert and my naughty camel within half an hour.
My free nomadic feeling .... I had to leave it with the camels in the desert.
I felt the tears of sadness in my eyes, to say farewell to the desert for some time.
Updated Aug 6, 2003
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Favorite thing: For making a desert tour to the White Desert for one day or more, you can arrange it easily from Bawiti in the Bahariya Oasis on your way from Cairo to Farafra Oasis or you can do it in Qasr al-Farafra (told to be cheaper) .
In 1999 for the one night stay, our trip was arranged at the Ahmeds' Safari Camp (tel 802600) in the Bahariya Oasis.
In 2000 the organisation of Diaa Shawki (diaasha@scc.com.eg) in Heliopolis, Cairo, (specialised in deserts) did the arrangements for the three days cameltrip.
We did the bookings for the whole trip in the Netherlands with Koning Aap and Sawadee.
Updated Aug 6, 2003
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Favorite thing: The by sand sculptured lime stone yardangs in the White Desert near the Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt make this of one of the most fascinating deserts on earth.
The rocks formed by shells of milliard shellfishes in a sea, which existed at this place many centuries ago, are soft and fragile.
Map of Farafra oasis and White Desert area
Updated Aug 6, 2003
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Favorite thing: Before I travelled to Farafra I red the book " Oase Farafra" of Arita Baaijens, a dutch writer who started to travel with her own camels in the western desert many years ago. In ''Oase Farafra'' she describes the enormous changes from the isolated desert village Farafra with mud houses and old traditions, she met the first time, into the nowadays Farafra oasis. After the discovery of a lot of water at great depth, started the development of new agricultural settlements in the oasis with strangers from the Nile Valley, is the tarred road to Cairo built and came the first cars and many facilities to Farafra.
The book is in dutch and not translated yet.
Her first book of her travels in the western desert "Regen van eeuwig vuur" is translated in german "Regen aus ewigem Feuer"
You can visit her dutch and english web-site www.arita.baaijens.com with a lot of information about her camel journeys ( last ones in Sudan), the desert and camels. There are many interesting links.
Updated Aug 5, 2003
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