Description

The Desert Circle is one of the finest journeys Egypt has to offer. Starting from Bahariya Oasis, it runs for hundreds of kilometres through a desert landscape pocked by dunes and lofty escarpments. En route, amid wind-eroded depressions, we will visit three oases: Bahariya, Farafra, and Dakhla. Unlike Siwa, these “inner oases” have been almost continuously under the control of the Nile Valley since the Middle Kingdom, ruled by the pharaohs, Persians, Romans, Mamelukes, Turks and British, who've left behind temples, aqueducts, forts, mosques or roads.

Although each oasis has a central focus, the differences between them are as marked as their similarities. Bahariya and Farafra both score highly on their hot springs and palm groves, but Bahariya is influenced by Cairene ways, whereas Farafra is more rural and traditional. In Dakhla the modern centres are less appealing than the ancient ruins and villages on their peripheries, redolent of historic links with the Nile Valley or caravan routes from Sudan.

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