Siwa Oasis 5.6

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Siwa Oasis
Marsa Matruh, 51714
Egypt

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Natural features Siwa Oasis
When behave your way to Siwa from any direction of Matrouh, for example, you pass from the middle of the desert barren do not sow or water and suddenly show you the high mountains and behind the mountains, you see the most beautiful view, and the first thing that draws your attention is this life deposit net and Trademark natural entrenched from the mountains and hills, lakes and palm trees embracing and natural springs like a paradise in the desert it is an oasis of Amon (Siwa) Vuahty boasts beautiful areas with clean, quiet life

Mountains and hills Siwa Oasis
More of what attracts the attention of the visitor to the Siwa Oasis in Siwa Oasis is well-established that Alalalamat natural oasis in the middle of a Dakrour Mountain and Mount Shally and the Mountain of the Dead and the Golan Aghurmi built above the Temple of Amon Idol Inspiration
Dakrour Mountain

Dakrour Mountain mediates low Siwa consists of a high plateau topped with five peaks bloc North called the victory and in the bloc central mountainous There Khvan carved goes back to the Pharaonic era of late (early Ptolemaic period) and there are legends of many from the mountain and the treasures of King jug, a king of the kings of Siwa in the past and there is also an old story linking Dakrour Mountain and the Temple Mount and the revelation of the dead which the existence of an underground tunnel linking the three sites.
Mount Shally
Word Shally very Alseweh concerned town or city and Shally Abarhan plateau high topped with two summits and one in the far west and the second in the east and it was built many homes Alkrhevah by forty men and was the town of Shali fence surrounded on the edge of the surface of the mountain is high, making it difficult to climb and has one entrance or entrances and the city in the interior streets are narrow and Abuapmnazlha small and so it was for the purpose of protecting it from attacks by Berbers and Bedouins of the desert and containing the plateau 6 wells for fresh water and the town of Shali, one of the models of architecture desert rare and now she is the ruins of houses destroyed by the displacement of populations to build new homes and tracking it displacement of the demolition of the homes of the old in order to obtain building materials
Mountain of the Dead
Mountain of the Dead a high plateau lies at a distance of 1 km from the center of the oasis to the left of the next of Matrouh / Siwa consists mountain of stone Tajiri and the girl child in successive layers and the plateau is a cemetery major (landfills) to Siwa old and containing the tombs of pharaohs three levels of basement -ost -aloy has opened most of the graves and exhumed in bygone eras and epochs and because it was the focus of Froun travelers Alaurbin
Plateau Aghurmi
Plateau Aghurmi is a plateau which built above the Temple of inspiration and rises about 30 meters from the surface of the earth and the plateau take the shape of a horseshoe, and because the edges of Western and Northern and Eastern high and descends gradually to the middle of the plateau plateau while the south side is lower, which looks like a corridor or hallway and consists plateau of limestone separated layers of the baby green and had a temple in the Pharaonic era, the old and then I use the population and Oqamo where many homes were Shally Aghurmi it is also surrounded by a fence above slots (small windows) and includes all inside the well the Bible back to the days of the Pharaohs and now buildings ancient ruins were demolished as in Shali Siwa
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Sand dunes
Considered the dunes in Siwa of the most tourist attractions which is about sand dunes high stretching from the Great Sand Sea south and west of the oasis and permeate these dunes and oases by trees such as the eloquent and well one and other and find tourists more inclined to safaris in the desert of Siwa and the sand dunes and the occurrence of Siwa away from the pollution and the brightness of the sun, there is evaluate the process of physical therapy for rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and bone pain and stimulate blood circulation
Lakes
Despite the occurrence of Siwa in the dead of the desert characterized by a lack of water sources, however, one of the biggest problems dogging Oasis frequent water and high water level surface which Ntij him set-aside a lot of land, therefore it became necessary to create banks to Treff excess water and found the drainage system in Siwa since ancient Pharaonic times a or those lakes (ponds) there four major lakes in Siwa, namely:
1-Olive Lake, a bank Agricultural Old (Lake) east of Siwa area starts from 5760 acres of olive Ahtah archeological and emptying the pond olives
2 Lake Aghurmi northeast Oasis area almost 960 acres
3 Lake Siwa Shali area west of the city of nearly 3,600 acres
4 Almraci West Lake Oasis (Bhi religion) and almost 700 acres increasingly confined to the lake by the water contained her Alpmsarv agricultural and salty lakes, covering an area of 11020 acres of Siwa, a large area of land given a wonderful sight to a distinctive oasis of Siwa oasis from the rest of the other.
Wells and springs in the oasis
Spread the wells and springs in various parts of the Oasis, a water flowing Matiaazbh of the percentage of salinity in each of them between $ 700 m3: 1300 m3 degree of salinity of 1600: 8000 units per million and there are 220 eye natural waters, including sulfur springs, which are used for hospitalization and reach the depths of the eyes what between 4 meters to 15 meters circular shape in the majority of eyes and reach diameters of 7:25 meters and the number of wells, 1200 wells and this number is decreasing as is the closure of wells which assembled in the wells grouped with the flow of forces and textured and depths ranging from 50 meters to 1,500 meters examples of wells, wells Dakrur and well Bhi religion and well Ghazalat It is the most famous examples of the eyes and eye Goba (Cleopatra) and appointed Aftnas appointed Arayes given its importance has been taken care of since the Pharaonic era and the oldest so far, keeping the system labeled (Romanian), Romanian or eyes.
Palm trees and olive
Helped abundance of water on the growth of plants and trees in Siwa especially palm trees and olive trees, two of the most important staple crops of the Siwa Oasis since ancient times and has an area of palm trees planted in Siwa more than 10,000 acres and area increase on an annual basis and are grown Oasis several types of dates, including wetlands, such as mussels Pressed (Siwi) and Ttguet and other types dry like Balah Freihi (Ghazali) and many other types fall under the name Azzawi (almost) and the palm trees are given a beautiful sight adorn Siwa Bkhaddrtha The olive Vthbla cultivated area of about 12,000 acres and this number increased also grown Siwa three main types of olives they are (or sour apple--botiqin -achammlaly) and the olive tree is also given to the oasis Mntara beautiful tree Alzizn and live more than 200 years, and these trees are the most important features of Oasis therefore Aataleg by green Oasis.