matruh siwa

Alhamdulillah, after having a two days one night trip to matruh and siwa i was finally home the night before raya. it was tiring, full of adventures and survivals but on top of all, it was superb! 2 nights of an inadequate sleep, 2 days of no bath, 2 days of an unorganized meal time, hours of sitting on the coaster, and a too hard to find with long ques toilets was terribly unaccepted but the experience gained paid off all pains. hehe. the best part of the trip was the roller-coaster feeling ride of safari and the chance of living in a badwi's village and sleeping in the tent in the middle of the desert. harsh but awesome. (^_^)v

Hamam Cleopatra. 

The big stone you see in the middle of the sea was the place where Cleopatra used to take her bath.

The statue of Cleopatra.

A short story about Cleopatra, she was one of the Egyptian ruler. She had ruled Egypt for some time before Egypt finally fall into the hand of Rome. She had married twice, the first was with her elder brother while the second was with her younger brother. And according to history, there were 2 standpoint of how she died. opinion 1 says that she was bitten by a snake on her way to Rome while opinion 2 stated that she killed herself after been captured by Rome.

One of the beach in Matruh.

Next, we went for safari in the middle of the Sahara desert. We had a ride in the jeep and it felt like having a roller coaster ride in the middle of the desert. hehe.

Only us were there in the desert.

Firah wa rus.. delicious! we had 3x of firah and each time we got 1/4 of a chicken. if you multiple by 3, meaning we ate 3/4 of a chicken only in two days. amazing how arabian can eat that much of a chicken. hehe.  

The hot spring. 

Siwa is a desert, but because of the hot springs it owned that make it a place of living.

A picture of the siwa original villagers having a maghrib prayer in the middle of the desert. 

Islam is a simple religion. You may hv your prayer anywhere in the world :)

This is the tent where we had our one night sleep in the desert. 

To tell you the truth, night in the sahara was totally cold. chills up to the bone!

The toilet. nice kn? hehe.

A monumen that tells the history of siwa.

This was the main entrance of the place of worshiping the god of Amon once upon a time.

Kolam Cleopatra.

Its water was so clear you can even see the bottom of it. 

Jabal Al-Dukrur.

Shali.

You can see the whole view of the village from the top of Shali.

Jabal Al-Mauta, The Mountain of the Dead.

Lastly, we went to the East West Restaurant before heading back to Alexandria.

What caught my eyes the most was its billboard. Usually people will tell others when they have other branches but in case of this restaurant, they tell others when they do not have other branch apart of the restaurant itself. very honest of them. hehe.

After lunch, we headed straight back to Alexandria and reached Alex around 10 pm. Alhamdulillah.

That's all for my trip to Matruh n Siwa.

Enjoy the Eid! ^_~