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KHARGA OASIS :
Oasis of
temples and castles
Kharga is clearly different from
the image most people of an oasis out in the desert. It has been the
most important town in the development plans for the Western Oases, and
has presently a population of more than 100,000 people. And when the
architecture is totally dominated by concrete blocks and wide roads, the
result is that few tourists use more time than necessary in town. During
my oasis circuit of 2004 I met several Western travel guides telling me
that they omitted Kharga all together, because there was nothing to see.
That is totally wrong, Kharga has sights from 3 millenniums.
Kharga means in Arabic "point of departure", in opposition to Dakhla,
"point of entrance", which lies further to the west.
The population of Kharga are Berbers with roots back to the time when
the oasis was a station on the famous 40 Days Road between Sudan and
Egypt — famous because of the merchandise; slaves.
The tombs were originally
plastered, but this is has since long disappeared.
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