One of the lovely things about having visitors is that you have an excuse for touristy trips. In fact, they’re usually not so much fun without the visitors. Right now, Big Mama and Lil’ Bro are visiting. Having visited the pyramids, Coptic Cairo, Islamic Cairo, the museum and various other tourist ‘musts’ multiple times, we decided to take them to the desert.

First stop, the Black Desert. It lies just south of Bahareya oasis (there are numerous spellings of the oasis if you google it).

It’s kind of odd and not being a geologist, or someone who remembers the geological highlights explained by a geologist (more than once..), all I can tell you is that it’s got a lot of black rock. Rather impressive really, though, I think.