Gebel Dakrur
The mountain of Siwa's hot-sand cures and the October full-moon festival of reconciliation.
Siwa
Gebel al-Mawta (Mountain of the Dead)
A conical hill honeycombed with rock tombs, including the painted Greco-Egyptian tomb of Si-Amun.
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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