Siwa Oasis

The Siwa Oasis represents one of the most remarkable destinations in Egypt, with its exceptional natural environment and exclusive geographical characteristics that embrace a diversity of flora and fauna and over 230 natural fresh water springs.

It is situated between Al Kharga’s Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Great Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, approximately 560 Km from Cairo. It is roughly 80 Km in length and 20 Km wide, with a warm, hospitable population of few thousands mostly ethnic Berbers.

The Oasis is one of the world’s most pristine remaining oases, home to a wide diversity of historical relics and untouched culture due to the remoteness of the oasis and the isolation of its community.

It boasts magnificent rock formations and miraculous salt lakes, in addition to an environment free of chemical fertilizers as farmers employ traditional farming techniques that have been used for many centuries. Siwa Oasis is wealthy in agriculture and offers orchards and gardens of a vast array of vegetables.

Siwa, historically known as Palm Land, is one of Egypt’s secluded settlements dating back to Ancient Egypt’s 26th Dynasty when a necropolis was established with murals of the Hill of the Dead.

One of Siwa’s mesmerizing monuments is the Temple of Amon, where it is renowned that the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great once consulted the Oracle of Amon before continuing his Persian conquest in 331 B.C.