3-tägige All-Inclusive-Tour zur Siwa-Oase ab Kairo oder Gizeh

It was a fantastic, out-of-this-world experience! My sons and I joined a tour from Cairo to Siwa, which we booked through the Viator app. The trip lasted for two nights and three days. Our excellent driver picked us up from the hotel at 4 a.m. for an eight-hour drive through the Sahara Desert to Siwa. Upon our arrival at the hotel, we rested before embarking on an early evening tour. We enjoyed a desert drive in a 4x4 vehicle with an experienced driver, navigating up and down the sand dunes. We reached Suhra Aldabaeih, where we savoured late afternoon tea and snacks by a spring water pool before setting off for sandboarding in the desert. On the second day, we explored various historical sites, including the Shali Fortress, Dakrour Mountain, Oracle Temple, an ancient Egyptian burial ground known as the Mountain of the Dead, the Siwa Cultural Museum, and a Siwa library. We went to Sabkha Salt Lake for a swim but were too tired, so we opted out of going to Cleopatra Spring Pool. Our driver took us to Siwa Oasis in the evening, where we enjoyed drinks while watching the sunset. Our local tour guides, Gabriel and Abu Bakr were great storytellers with incredible knowledge of Siwa's history and culture. We gained valuable insights into Siwa's background. The local people are genuine, and Siwans have a strong sense of family unit. Thank you to Abu Bakr, Gabriel, our experienced Siwa driver, and the driver who took us to Siwa and back to Cairo. We appreciate their dedication to making our trip meaningful, eye-opening, and enjoyable. It is fascinating to learn how Siwans maximise their resources by growing date palm trees. They eat the fruit, use the leaves for shelter and fencing as well as weaving baskets, and use the trunks for building houses and supporting roofs.

El viaje fue un poco al son del chofer y guias, no siguiendo el programa al completo. Ya que en el viaje desde asuan a siwa, no hubo desayuno en marsa matrou, si no, el chofer cogio desayuno egipcio en asuan y lo comimos en el coche, hicimos parada en una gasolinera a coger un cafe por nuestra cuenta. Una vez llegado a siwa, 1h buscando el hotel, no sabia donde estaba. Los hoteles dejan mucho que desear, las cabalas en el desierto eran buenas, pero el hotel al que nos llevaron estaba viejo, y la habitacion olia muy mal. Los desayunos muy pobres, no tenian ni cafe en el campamento, solo te. Por ultimo, en las salinas solo vimos y nos bañamos en una grande de la entrada, pedimos que nos llevaran a las pequeñitas para hacer fotos y no dio tiempo porque viajabamos con una pareja que hacia otro programa de 1 dia menos, cosa que no es nuestro problema. En definitiva, hay agencias que lo hacen y seguro que mejor.

I will give 5 stars but only because our driver Hossam was very kind, same with our tour guide Gabriel and the rest of the team. Otherwise it wasn't perfect. Our pick up was supposed to be 5 in the morning, but we couldn't find the driver outside, and we ended up waiting for almost 1 hour while all dressed up. We didn't know if it was cancelled or if someone was going to pick us up. I expected to get a message from the tour operator or from the driver, saying that, "hey, this will be the car color, etc, we will be outside waiting for you, but none of these, we have to wonder ourselves and figure it out. Later on the tour operator messaged that the driver was actually outside waiting for almost 1 hour, just the same as us. So It's a miscommunication. We also missed some stops because our driver had to rush to catch the Safari since we were already late. How to prevent this kind of inconvenience in the future? -To the tour company or operator, you should give the driver the customer's number so that he could contact them since he has the car, or give the customer the driver's number so that it's easier to find each other. It's not our driver's fault. (He waited just like us) The company should have given our number to the driver, or vice versa. Otherwise it was a nice experience, it's slower sometimes, lots of confusion with people involved but everything went well in the end, thank you to our driver Hossam and to our tour guide Gabriel who made the experience great, without them it wouldn't be a 5 star review.