Minamar Hotel

Bahariya Oasis Egypt

فندق مينامار الواحات البحرية 

Desert Tours travel Safari

Welcome to Minamar Hotel Bahariya oasis, The richness and variety of Egyptian landscape is endless. At least if you ever decide to visit the White Desert, Minamar Hotel organize all Western desert excursions, Western desert tours, Western desert safari, Western desert trekking, Western desert camping, Western desert  sociological treatment and much more if you don't find program matches what you have in your mind please send us your suggested tour to our e mail  info@minamar.com

Egypt is very much desert, and the number of oases are smaller than many might imagine. There are 8 oasis communities interesting to a traveller, plus a handful of places where people do little but work and long for the day when they can return to their home town.
Getting to the oases is straightforward these days: There are good roads and plenty of public transportation that costs next to nothing compared with Western price levels.
Egyptian oases correspond fairly with the Hollywood/Disney-like image of an oasis, where sand dunes suddenly turn into lush palm groves with a fresh-water pond in the middle. Some of the oases have blurred borders, where the gardens and settlements in the outskirts are poor and ugly. Other oasis begin almost suddenly after you climb down into the bowl where water is naturally pumped up from the ground, and agriculture is possible.
And that is very much the true reason for the existence of Egypt's oases. Water is pressed up from underground water reservoirs, water which can be distributed through canals to allow extensive agriculture. In modern times, gazoline driven pumps are used for reservoirs without sufficient pressure.
Until a few decades ago, before the roads were built, the oases were quite isolated from the rest of the world. Most of the inhabitants never left the oasis through their entire lives. Culture, lifestylese, clothes and even language could be unique from oasis to oasis. Much of this diversity is disappearing these days, but still there is plenty left to intrigue visitors. Tourism has had a positive impact on the oases; the inhabitants have been taught that they possess something unique, so valuable that people from the other side of the world come to discover it.
So which are the best oases to visit, for anyone with limited time?. Here is my ranking, just remember that every oasis has its own attractions, so many other travellers would make a very different ranking