“The famous oasis of Siwa…cannot be said to have fallen from its high estate…only it has stood still while the world went on.”
Wilfred Jennings-Bramly, A Journey to Siwa in October-September 1896
The name Siwa is derived from the Berber-language Siwi and means "the Falconiform protector of Amon-Ra, the sun God.
"This is a place with a very special, luxurious sense of the primitive, surrounded by the kind of magic that only ancient tribes, majestic mountains and ruthless desert climates can conjure.”
W. Geordie Greig, “Nomad’s Land, Tatler Magazine, April 2007
“One of the first things on arrival in Siwa which delights and rests the eye, after the glare of the desert, is the blue stretch of the salt lakes, seen through the date groves."
Major T.I. Dunn, 1933, “From Cairo to Siwa Across the Libyan Desert with Armoured-Cars.”
The pool is feed from water from an ancient Roman spring and the furniture is carved from local trees. All part of a local sustainable-development plan. There are 40 hand-built rooms, each of them unique overlooking Siwa Lake and the Great Sand Sea.
Via 1 Kind Design.
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