Our $10/night double-room at the Palm Trees Hotel in Siwa (aka the Siwa Mosquito Breeding Ground and Massacre Chamber!)
Egyptians don't believe in toilet paper--it's only clean if it's done with water. Note the faucet on the left-hand side and the extra plumbing in the middle of the bowl. That thing shoots a jet of water 6 feet straight up!!
Our first day in Siwa--it's very hot!
We visit a spring to cool off
Can you read Arabic?
And this one?
All those openings in the rocks are tombs
Our guide, Fathy
Pascal gets chased by Chili, the world's most hyperactive dog
Note the claw marks on Pascal's back. The dog's owner is Armenian (Egyptians don't like dogs)
Yes, those are human bones
The Mountain of the Dead, with literally hundreds of tombs all over the place
The last thing I expected to find in the middle of the Sahara
This village was destroyed during the rainfall of 1982
Fed by underground springs, the lakes around Siwa are very shallow (they mostly dry up by the end of Summer) and very salty
