19 – Travelling in Egypt – Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh and Siwa – Podcast

In Travel Podcast Episode 19 I visit Egypt where I spent a week travelling with a friend who lives inAlexandria. I took a walking tour of the city where many of the houses are crumbling away and where we bumped into a wedding procession hooting horns and letting off fireworks. We drove west to the popular holiday resort of Marsa Matrouh and turned south-west to the desert oasis of Siwa near the Libyan border. I found Siwa to be a truly magical place and we explored the old mud brick fortress of theShali, visited the ancient tombs at Gebel al-Mawta or the Mountain of the dead and watched the sun set over the lake at Fatnas island.