Siwa was amazing. It is so quiet and the food was great, much more North African/Moroccan than Egyptian. I wish they would open a Siwi restaurant in Cairo, probably called SIWAWI. Best part was riding our bikes back to the very rustic hotel late night armed only with flashlights. Most of the cabs are donkey carts. We went to new years at a hot spring, with goat roasted underground and sheep on a spit. Alcohol is hard to come by, though a lot of people drink on the sly, so we had only a couple beers furtively after eating dinner with some local sheikhs in one of those bedouin-style palm tree and pillow areas. Sheikh Shack! It's actually weird because there is an evident salafi current in the town, to the point where finding cigs is difficult, but then there is Siwi culture with drinking, dancing and other footloose-type activities, so that's all very interesting to observe. Also the sheikhs both smoked, and they were honest-2-god (figuratively and possibly literally), regime-appointed (I think) sheikhs, not just some oldsters I appellated that.
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