Arabian Experience : Sahara

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I am normally the type of person who could just go with the flow. Organizing my life into neat little boxes and to-do lists definitely didn't bring me any comfort : made me feel trapped inside, no freedom at all. This life- I was constantly fitting pieces of puzzles together, attempting to mould whatever my present condition was into the ideas of what I'm gonna do next.

On January 2014, a friend of mine spontaneously invited me to go for an adventure to north-western part of Egypt. It borders Libya. Specifically, we're gonna be playing in the middle of Sahara.

My mates and I were in Siwa, looking for the best way to Sahara. After a bit of research, we found that we could take a tour with a 4-wheel drive through the Egypt-Libya border. It was a day-adventure with only 100le with all the meals provided. Without a doubt, it was truly an unbeatable option.

On the day that we were scheduled to leave, we were brought by a minivan in the early hours of morning into a place that were full with 4-wheel drives. Once we were placed inside the wheels, they brought us all into the Libya border to enter the Sahara Desert.

Our first stop was the oasis. There's a medium-sized oasis in the middle of the desert with a miniature hot spring. The oasis coloured by the minerals in the water. It was contrasted with the colour of the sand. The fact that it existed in the middle of the desert was mind-blowing.

We continued our journey for a few miles ahead and stopped to play sand-boarding. Being from a country that didn't have any desert to practice our sand-boarding skill on, we really screwed our bodies with countless hard falls on the sand. Just name the positions of the fall, we experienced it all, I think.

We spent a few hours playing and drinking chai that was served by the tour. The chai was delicious, much to my friends' chagrin. They didn't like the strong taste of the herbs in that chai.

We spent much of our time later with racing across the desert, the jeeps will race amongst others. We experienced the high-speed racing on the sand, and we loved it.

The journey by 4-wheel drive was truly incredible ; we experienced so much, from the oasis, drinking chai in the middle of the desert to racing across the desert, and never had to worry about where we would be back into town and whatnot. The fact that everything was provided- and it was a very reasonable price- allowed us to enjoy this adventure to the core, and to getting know the people that we met along the way.

Go to Siwa and find a company that would help you to arrange a day trip; there is simply no better option to cross the Egypt-Libya border.