Egypt Western Desert Egypt western desert covers about 700,000 square kilometres and accounts for about two-thirds of Egypt’s land area. It spans from the Mediterranean Sea south to the Sudanese border and from the Nile River Valley west to the Libyan border. There are seven important depressions within this area and all of these are […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Egypt Eastern Desert Introduction to the Eastern Desert Egypt Eastern desert stretches southwards from the Sinai peninsula to the border of Sudan, covering a narrow area between the Red Sea and the Nile Valley. This barren mountainous region has long been exploited for its minerals, including gold and emeralds and quarried for its variety of stone […]
Egypt sinai When Belgian artist Jean Berame came to Egypt sinai in 1980, the theme song for the work he did here might have been “Don’t it make your brown rocks blue,Armed with ten tons of UN-blue paint, making enormous brown boulders blue (the color of peace) was exactly what Berame did. The result is […]
