Day 82 14 November 2010 Sunday
Bahariya Oasis, 375 km SW of Cairo, on a road connecting 4 of the major oases of the Western Desert in a crescent shape. The economy of the town revolves largely around desert safari tours and lodging, and 80% of the vehicles in town are desert ready Toyota Land Cruisers. Luckily the police state atmosphere of the New Valley Oases to the south is not present here.
The major desert safari attraction is the dramatic natural scenery of the White Desert National Park. Eighty million year old calcium rich sea bed has eroded into cloud like shapes on pedestals. Golden sand has blown in across the desert, contrasting the whipped cream like rock, and near by volcanoes have provided a peppering of small black iron ore.
Adjacent to the White Desert is the “Black Desert,” named for the numerous cinder cones which showered the otherwise cream colored landscape with igneous dark debris.
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