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Bahariya Oasis is nothing compared to Siwa,
but if you come here first, it has charm. The
oasis is consisting of erratic colonies of palms.
And you really never get an impression of this
being an oasis, until you find an elevations,
where the landscape of thousands of palm trees
stretch out in front of you.
What I found most charming were the children of
Bawiti, the capital of the Bahariya oasis. This
place is something between a picturesque village
and a dump. But the people around you, are
beautiful. Me and some other tourists were adopted
by a bunch of kids, running to and fro, pointing,
explaining, looking interested at everything we
did. Small girls with a finger in their mouths,
small boys with a new jogging suit. Proud mothers
came out, patting their children's heads, smiling
to us, saying something in local Arabic dialect,
probably "Welcome" or a blessing
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