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The
Great Sand Sea is an uninhabitable belt of shifting golden dune ridges
up to 100 m (330ft) high, a natural impassable barrier between Egypt and
Lybia up to 300 km (200 mi) wide and extending for some 600 km (375 mi)
north to south.
Human habitation is only possible in the five remote
oases at its edge, where mineral springs and waterholes enable life. On
this 1000 km (600 mi) road adventure, you will experience the magical
stillness of elemental landscapes and wonder at the resilience of
communities who have managed to preserve their culture, continuosly
since antiquity, in the face of such overwhelmingly hostile odds.
Siwa,
Egypt's westernmost oasis is the site of the ancient Oracle of Amun,
consulted by Alexander the Great. It is an 80 km (50mi) swathe of date
palms, olive trees and salt lakes inhabited by Berbers.
The 400 km (250
mi) road along the ancient caravan route to Bahariya, you cross the
surreal White Desert with dramatic rock formations like giant mushrooms,
to reach Farafra, one of the most isolated places in Egypt.
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