Cleopatra's Bath (Spring of the Sun)
A stone-lined spring in Siwa's palm groves, the ancient Fountain of the Sun — now a popular swimming pool.
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Gebel Dakrur
The mountain of Siwa's hot-sand cures and the October full-moon festival of reconciliation.
Gebel al-Mawta (Mountain of the Dead)
A conical hill honeycombed with rock tombs, including the painted Greco-Egyptian tomb of Si-Amun.
Shali Fortress
Siwa's medieval fortified town of salt and mud, built in the thirteenth century — a labyrinth of lanes above the main square.
Temple of the Oracle of Amun, Aghurmi
The desert oracle that proclaimed Alexander the Great son of Amun — on a rock above Siwa's palm groves.
Umm Ubayda (Temple of Amun of Nectanebo II)
A single carved wall in the palm groves — all that remains of a temple of Amun built by Egypt's last native pharaoh.
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