The Blue Desert

The most amazing thing about the Blue Desert isn't the blue paint on the rocks, it is the wadi itself - against the backdrop of the legendary blue Sinai sky. Massive granite sculptures and golden boulders cover the desert floor along with beautiful pink flowers dotting the plains. The Blue Desert is a great place for climbing, taking pictures or just getting away from it all.
In 1980, Belgian artist Jean Verame came to the Sinai to paint a line of peace. With the permission of Anwar Sadat and a grant of ten tons of paint from the UN, the artist managed to paint four miles of the Sinai. One year later, a stretch between Dahab and St Katherine was blue; hence, the name the Blue Desert.
Located between Dahab and St Katherine, you can easily see this site in one day. However, it is a great place for camping.

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The Oasis

The oasis is a depression in the desert comprising well-springs, greenery and trees ,which reflects the beauty, charm and diveristy of nature, its suuronding desert and the green valley. In Egypt, there are quite a lot of oases spread in the western desert. One of the most important is Fayoum.

El Fayoum lies on the south west of Cairo, its water comes from the river Nile via Joseph Canal. Fayoum drived its fame from being the gathering area of different ages: Prehistoric, Pharonic, Graeco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic.

Fayoum had many touristic places: The Pyramid of Hawara & Al Lahoun, the pyramids Base of Amenemhat III and the Obelisk of Senosert, which dated to the middle kingdom (1900 B.C.) are a great tourist attraction. The ruines & the museum of the ancient Karanis are real evidences for the civilization acheivments in that period. Fayoum is also famous for its watersprings and its waterwheels which are considered essintial for the irrigation system.

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Safari

What is safari?

There's no better way to feel the spirit of adventure than to experience the desert safari specially in Egypt . When you hear the word safari; scenes from old movies might flash through your head. Those people who carry equipment and supplies in the desert and the wildlife is full of adventure with a natural exotic scenery. Egypt is one of the most famous places for Safari where you can enjoy the peaceful and eventful life.Since the last quarter of the 20th century, desert safari has been less an occasion for hunting and more an adventure for tourists to view and photograph big game in the African national parks and reserves.Recently, the meaning of the word safari has been expanded to include trips and excursions not necessarily related to the desert wildlife. For example, the safari in Egypt deserts for those who are looking for adventure to experience the quiet and natural life of the desert.Memphis Tours - Egypt can offer various programs covering safari in Egypt . The Western desert with its 5 oasis Baharia - Farfara - Dakhla - Kharga - Siwa - Marsa Matruh is known for most of the African safari fans, the African safari trips are usually between 5 and 10 days.

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Sinai

Sinai

There are moments in Sinai when one feels as if the history of all the world can be read in its stones. Indeed, the land here is a monument to the antiquity of life on Earth, from the fossilized reef animals of Ras Mohamed to the mines of El Maghara, whose copper fueled the Bronze Age. In many places visitors from thousands of years ago literally recorded their passage in stone, as at the Rock of Inscriptions near Dahab. And at Serabit El-Khadem, near ancient mining sites, archaeologists have discovered carvings that record the very earliest emergence of our alphabet.

All three of the West's great religious traditions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-know Sinai as a holy land, a vast expanse traversed time and again by prophets, saints, pilgrims, and warriors.

Sinai is most familiar to many as the "great and terrible wilderness" through which the Israelites wandered for forty years. However, it was also the path by which Amr swept down into Egypt in 640 AD, bringing Islam in his wake. Even after the muslim conquest, the monks of St.Cathren Monastery (founded in 547 AD) continued to greet pilgrims to the site of the Burning Bush.Many of the most memorable conquerors have passed through Sinai as well. Alexander the Great crossed at the head of a great army, as did Ramses II, Napoleon Bonaparte, and (in the opposite direction) Salah el-Din. The Arab-Israeli conflicts of this century raged across the Sinai as well, their passage still evident in the ghostly wreckage that marks certain parts of the Suez coast.In recent years, and for the first time, the history of Sinai seems to be emerging as a story about the land itself,its artifacts, its people, and its extraordinary natural beauty,rather than the story of those who pass through that land. Today, it is the Sinai's brilliant coral reefs, its striking mountains and deserts, and its enormous Cultural heritage that hold the future-once again, though in a very different way, the history of Sinai seems to be written in the land itself.

The Bedouin of Sinai

Bedu, the Arabic word from which the name bedouin is derived, is a simple, straightforward tag. It means "inhabitant of the desert," and refers generally to the desert-dwelling nomads of Arabia, the Negev, and the Sinai. For most people, however, the word "bedouin" conjures up a much richer and more evocative image of lyrical, shifting sands, flowing robes, and the long, loping strides of camels.For several centuries, such images were not far from the truth. In the vast, arid expanses of the Sinai, as in the Negev and the deserts of Arabia, the many tribes of the bedouin journeyed by camel from oasis to oasis, following a traditional way of life and maintaining a pastoral culture of exceptional grace, honor, and beauty.Most of the bedouin tribes of the Sinai are descended from peoples who migrated from the Arabian peninsula between the 14th and 18th centuries, making the bedouin themselves relatively recent arrivals in this ancient land. Today, many of the bedouin of the Sinai have traded their traditional existence for the pursuits and the conventions of the modern world, as startling changes over the last two decades have irrevocably altered the nature of life for the bedouin and for the land they inhabit. Nonetheless, beduin culture still survives in the Sinai, where there is a growing appreciation of its value and its fragility.

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