Thank you so much Sunshine ❤️ That is very sweet, and I am so happy I'm able to give you a slice of Egypt from so far away. Greetings from Egypt, and I hope you have a beautiful day in Arizona P.S. I like your username❤️☀️
What an amazing adventure! Salty lakes are very useful for body but make sure to wash it away fast cause the sun burns the exposed salty skin! You are so brave to go everywhere by yourself but, as they say no risk no fun! Thanks for all your amazing videos showing us places that we've never been to!🌹stay safe, and keep on the amazing vlogs 💪
Wow, amazing place! I was suprised, that water was so cold and so many big buses was going towards this pools. It seems it is more popular, so high time to visit it. Thank you Giselle for this video!
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful sights and places i m an american living now in egypt now also in alexandria and i will after seeing this vid will visit Siwa thank you again 🙏🏻😊❤️
What an amazing place. It’s very serene and calm. I know you’re only supposed to be in there for 25 minutes, but it looks like a place where you could easily lose track of time and relax. I would be a prune by the time I got out of there. That is so amazing to see how you can just float. It looks like a beautiful place and a great time.
It truly is! The whole Siwa oasis is just enchanting, I love driving through these beautiful little roads lined with date palms, and the sapphire blue waters of these pools and cruising over glittering salt on motorbike....wonderful ❤️
Really enjoyed this and love your spirit of adventure tempered with good judgement. The scenery was so beautiful. I’m coming back to Egypt for Part Two and this place is on my bucket list.
Wow and wow again.Such a place.I've been in salt lakes in Australia and can testify to the crunchy feeling of drying out.Nice work,staysafe- Haal from Oz.
Your reactions to the floor of the pool made me laugh out loud so hard. The first time was amusing. The second time, I laughed hard. The third time when you embraced it and tried to give a verbal description... your face whilst doing that made me choke on my coffee. My husband looked at me from his office like I've lost my mind.
You're absolutely hilarious!! Loved it. Fascinating, wide open spaces of sparsely populated land with salt mining everywhere. And a town inhabited for that purpose. That water looks amazing, your dip was sweet! Even the spot you picked. Yeah, I was wondering when you picked up that handful of sand; that must be either fantastic or super weird. I guess like a mineral bath times a thousand kind of thing. I would have done the same exact thing; kept my shoes on. Floating was cool! Hopefully your skin felt amazing after that? You need a 2x2, LOL! The other thing I noticed, since no living thing around - no flies? And thank you for the tour!!
Well, I wouldn't say the town is inhabited solely for the purpose of salt mining. I mean, the oasis has been populated since ancient times, and the Berber community has been here for a long time now as well. But it's certainly become more popular in recent years because of social media and the salt pools, and the salt mining is now happening on a larger scale. One thing about the desert I have noticed - flies. No life, yet somehow flies. I just don't get it 😆
Superb video yet again, thank you so much 🌴....btw, do you recall the name of the song at the 11:08 timestamp of your video by chance.... Your music you play is very healing aswell as your voice,...so chill, thanks again for your wondrous journey's...just immaculate 🐫🙌🏾
Thanks so much popnfresh! It's a fun part of the editing process to find music I feel fits the mood, I appreciate that you enjoy that too. The song at 11:08 is: Picking Up the Pieces (ambient version) by Gunnar Johnsen Thanks again for watching, have a beautiful day 🌸☀️
I used to bike in FL in my 20s and 30s. The sugary sand is so dangerous. I can't tell you how many times I wiped out. One day, I'm going to have to make it to Siwa, too. It would probably be great for my hip and knees. My trip is hopefully either postponed or it will be for two. (I was afraid for a long time it would only be for one.) My husband got wonderful news at his last scan.
Such a nice video! Next time you can bring a book, newspaper or your notebook and do both at the same time: floating and reading or cutting your video in the water!! 😊 Best way of multitasking! Have a nice evening!!
Warm during the day, cold at night, that typical desert climate. But if you want to know the specifics, I would google the weekly or hourly weather in Siwa. I have found that to quite accurate, and I rely on it for motorbike trips around the country at any given time of the year.
Nah man, my bike did just fine! I'm just paranoid about getting stuck now because when I first arrived to the oasis I got stuck immediately in a pile of sand, chose the wrong place to park 😅 But actually, while the piles of salt looked very soft, they were a bit harder than I initially expected. It wasn't too hard to drive through it, much better than if it had been sand
Awesome video would love to visit, but we were advised against travelling so close to the borders by the UK government 😢 and two, our insurance would not cover us...three the girls said that it's too far from Cairo...but I'll just sit and enjoy your vlog instead 😉
Ehh yeah, my government also warns of traveling in the Western Desert, but I rode through there solo with my motorcycle with no issues to reach the Siwa Oasis. But it sounds like there's a few reasons, and it's true it is quite a journey from Cairo. Happy you can at least see it through my videos 🥰 And there's always next time 😎
Yep it's winter now. It can be visited in winter, but how comfortable you are with the temperature is really more based on you and what temps you are accustomed to/comfortable with. You can google the daily temp in Siwa to see what it is, I have found that to be accurate all over the country, and I use it to plan my motorbike trips/what to pack, etc.
Hello @Gventures I literally just subscribed to your channel. It’s very informative and helpful. With that being said could you tell me if it’s safe to travel to Egypt now. I’m asking because I plan to take my niece & mother there in about 4 weeks and the travel advisory is saying to reconsider. I’d figure I would ask someone who’s immersed in the culture there. I would really appreciate if you could answer that for me or actually anyone who knows. Thank in advance
Hi Andrew, thanks man, and welcome to the channel! Egypt is totally safe for travel, do not worry! Are you talking about the U.S. embassy website putting Egypt as a level 3: reconsider travel? Hehehehe, yeah, they have had Egypt on that list since like 2011 or even before, so for the past 14 years or so. As you can see from my weekly vlogs, things are normal here in Egypt. As I am driving around, do things look unsafe to you? Tourists are here right now traveling, taking Nile cruises, diving in the Red Sea, exploring all the ancient sites up and down the Nile. I made a video about safety not that long ago, I'll leave the link here in case you would like to watch it. ua-cam.com/video/ZNDQxLwNKaQ/v-deo.html
Wow 😅I truly appreciate the helpful info you my dear are a gem.I’ve been watching and the way you move around town is like just another day at home.I was again if I didn’t state it in my comment mainly concerned for my mother & niece being that it’s a Muslim country and I (whether a lack of knowledge, research, or honestly just pure ignorance actually all 3 lol) didn’t know what to expect. I’m hoping we can make it to the salt lakes in Siwa. I am soooo excited to just take in the history of there. Again appreciate you a thousand times over and thank you.
@@andrewallace9613 No problem Andrew, I am sure you, your mother and niece will have a great time 🥰 I hope you can make it to Siwa as well! But I know it's a very long drive, so just go where you can with the time you have to make the most out of it. Siwa is stunning, but it really is so far out there. So if you're going to go, I would spend at least a night (or at least two, actually) to really enjoy the oasis, feel the vibes, and explore a bit. There's always next time if you can't fit it into this trip 😄Thanks again for watching, and if you ever have any other questions don't hesitate to ask 😁
No....I don't even know what you mean. VR? If that tech was there as a real possibility right now, trust me you would know about it. Some UA-camr with way more money than me would have bought the equipment to make that possible and be producing those videos right now. I've never heard of anyone doing that, so pretty sure it doesn't exist (yet).
@@Gventures there's @360 channel on UA-cam. If you think it's interesting, GoPro 360 action camera should be rugged enough for your use. I'd be happy to chip in if you're OK with some support from fans of your content.
@@MustafaAdelAli Send me a link to the channel, because I have no idea what you're talking about. I have and use the Insta360 camera on my motorcycle rides, but that doesn't mean you can turn the camera wherever you want as a viewer. My Insta360 camera just films 360 degrees (obviously), which allows me to choose which shots to show while I am editing the video. But it's not like some immersive, VR experience. If that exists, I want to see it.
@@Gventures no links allowed it seems. But if you search youtube for @360 official channel. It puts all these videos in one place. I can access the immersive view on my phone or metaquest. I think It's just a matter of uploading a version of your video with the fisheye lens feed without selecting a certain field of view.
Hi. My name is Sharon.... I'm in Cairo/Giza until tomorrow night 12/18. Your videos have helped me so much in planning my trip....I would love to meet you! Are available anytime tomorrow to come to Giza?
Loved it! And from a production standpoint, it’s really nice how towards the end of the video, you showed us previews of upcoming videos. It keeps us intrigued and motivated to continue watching. Nonetheless, your videos are amazing as always!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🏳️🌈
I don't know because you just float. I am sure the depths vary by the pool, but from just glancing at them all as I drove around, I would not say they are very deep. Would not want to dive in and find out though, that sounds like a world of blinding pain. 😄 Pun intended
@Gventures ooooo sorry for typing mistake. You said its too hot to dress like you do but you need to respect their culture by covering your shoulders. You are wearing black so it absorb heat. What I mean was will it be cooler if wear lighter color?
No woman has ever done that in Egypt There are many beaches for tourists in Egypt What you did is go swimming in a place in the desert and most of the people in this area are Bedouins...they don't have a culture of dealing with tourists...You are welcome in Egypt...I hope you go to beaches for tourists...because I was afraid you would be harassed while you were alone
@@masonlux1444 Siwa is a place many people go. Bedouins are fine they are people, they are human just as you and I are. But I do love living in Egypt, and traveling around the country when I can.
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing. It was a good idea to go to the hot spring to rinse the salt. It's not a good idea to leave it on the skin especially in the sun.
I'm a 65-year-old woman who has a difficult time walking. I don't leave home much anymore. Thank you for sharing your adventures. 🌻
Thank you so much Sunshine ❤️ That is very sweet, and I am so happy I'm able to give you a slice of Egypt from so far away. Greetings from Egypt, and I hope you have a beautiful day in Arizona
P.S. I like your username❤️☀️
Watching this video I am putting this place on my bucket list
Siwa is so amazing ❤️
What an amazing adventure! Salty lakes are very useful for body but make sure to wash it away fast cause the sun burns the exposed salty skin! You are so brave to go everywhere by yourself but, as they say no risk no fun! Thanks for all your amazing videos showing us places that we've never been to!🌹stay safe, and keep on the amazing vlogs 💪
Another wonderful Sunday morning with Gigi. 😊❤ Always nice music.
Thank you Tina! Good morning 🥰🌸
Wow, amazing place! I was suprised, that water was so cold and so many big buses was going towards this pools. It seems it is more popular, so high time to visit it. Thank you Giselle for this video!
Yes the salt pools have grown in popularity in recent years. Hope you can make it here soon too! ❤️🌺
The beauty of the video made me feel like I was the one who visited this beautiful place. Thanks for you ❤
Thank you Kodac! ❤️🙏
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful sights and places i m an american living now in egypt now also in alexandria and i will after seeing this vid will visit Siwa thank you again 🙏🏻😊❤️
My pleasure 🥰
What an amazing place. It’s very serene and calm. I know you’re only supposed to be in there for 25 minutes, but it looks like a place where you could easily lose track of time and relax. I would be a prune by the time I got out of there. That is so amazing to see how you can just float. It looks like a beautiful place and a great time.
It truly is! The whole Siwa oasis is just enchanting, I love driving through these beautiful little roads lined with date palms, and the sapphire blue waters of these pools and cruising over glittering salt on motorbike....wonderful ❤️
just watching your videos makes me want to tour egypt
Loving all G’s videos and commenting just to push it up the algorithm! ❤
🥰🎉🙏
Good Sunday Morning from Toronto ❤
Good evening from Cairo Ramovator! 😁
Really enjoyed this and love your spirit of adventure tempered with good judgement. The scenery was so beautiful. I’m coming back to Egypt for Part Two and this place is on my bucket list.
Thank you so much Kristin! Excited for you to visit Siwa yourself, this oasis truly is magical
I'm Egyptian and i never visited Siwa ... Thanks Gigi for showing us this beauty ❤
Thank you Ahmed! 🙏 I hope you can visit this beautiful oasis some day! ❤️🇪🇬
Wow and wow again.Such a place.I've been in salt lakes in Australia and can testify to the crunchy feeling of drying out.Nice work,staysafe- Haal from Oz.
Haha. Thanks Haal 🙏 I wasn't aware Australia had salt lakes
I like your adventure ❤❤😊😊
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The weather is beautiful and you are beautiful too.
Thank you, the weather is gorgeous
You are very brave to do all of that by yourself, going siwa on motorcycle wow
It's awesome, I love it! 😍😎🏍️❤️
So beautiful ! Need to go & see this !
Poulsbo Washington!
😍😍😍😍😍Thank's. amazing ....
Your reactions to the floor of the pool made me laugh out loud so hard. The first time was amusing. The second time, I laughed hard. The third time when you embraced it and tried to give a verbal description... your face whilst doing that made me choke on my coffee. My husband looked at me from his office like I've lost my mind.
I trip myself out sometimes 🤣 Thanks Jessica 😄❤️🙏
You're absolutely hilarious!! Loved it. Fascinating, wide open spaces of sparsely populated land with salt mining everywhere. And a town inhabited for that purpose. That water looks amazing, your dip was sweet! Even the spot you picked. Yeah, I was wondering when you picked up that handful of sand; that must be either fantastic or super weird. I guess like a mineral bath times a thousand kind of thing. I would have done the same exact thing; kept my shoes on. Floating was cool! Hopefully your skin felt amazing after that? You need a 2x2, LOL! The other thing I noticed, since no living thing around - no flies? And thank you for the tour!!
Well, I wouldn't say the town is inhabited solely for the purpose of salt mining. I mean, the oasis has been populated since ancient times, and the Berber community has been here for a long time now as well. But it's certainly become more popular in recent years because of social media and the salt pools, and the salt mining is now happening on a larger scale.
One thing about the desert I have noticed - flies. No life, yet somehow flies. I just don't get it 😆
@@Gventures LOL!! They're assaulting I guess? that's it for me. don't forget to the tip the wait staff.
@@mozedition3339 Tip the wait staff? Is there a joke I am missing somehow? 😆
@@Gventures it is what comedians used to say at the end of a show. And it became a thing to say at the end of a corny joke.
@@Gventures i was being PC. Instead of waitress... I used wait staff.
I like this version more. Giselle, you've been in more places back home than I ever did. I got a lot of catching to do up on my next visit.
Lovely 🎉🎉🎉
Really felt like I was out there Gigi...sign of a really good video❤
That is really good to hear! Thank you Liz ❤️🙏
Superb video yet again, thank you so much 🌴....btw, do you recall the name of the song at the 11:08 timestamp of your video by chance....
Your music you play is very healing aswell as your voice,...so chill, thanks again for your wondrous journey's...just immaculate 🐫🙌🏾
Thanks so much popnfresh! It's a fun part of the editing process to find music I feel fits the mood, I appreciate that you enjoy that too.
The song at 11:08 is:
Picking Up the Pieces (ambient version) by Gunnar Johnsen
Thanks again for watching, have a beautiful day 🌸☀️
@ thank you so much 🎵…..🌞👍🏾
@@popnfresh2928 My pleasure 😊
Wow such a beautiful place.Thank you for sharing❤
I used to bike in FL in my 20s and 30s. The sugary sand is so dangerous. I can't tell you how many times I wiped out.
One day, I'm going to have to make it to Siwa, too. It would probably be great for my hip and knees.
My trip is hopefully either postponed or it will be for two. (I was afraid for a long time it would only be for one.) My husband got wonderful news at his last scan.
That's wonderful to hear Jennifer. I hope you can both make it out here soon
Fabulous
مجهود رائع في التصوير ومعرفتك للاماكن التي تزوريها❤
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i'm impressed with your courage
Thanks for sharing your adventures ❤
If you're still there, there's a manufacturer that makes a variety of products from that salt, such as lampshades.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Such a nice video! Next time you can bring a book, newspaper or your notebook and do both at the same time: floating and reading or cutting your video in the water!! 😊 Best way of multitasking! Have a nice evening!!
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Hello Gigi. Great video. I miss the scenery of Egypt. Your videos take me back. I enjoy the adventures. What’s the temperature like where you are?
Warm during the day, cold at night, that typical desert climate. But if you want to know the specifics, I would google the weekly or hourly weather in Siwa. I have found that to quite accurate, and I rely on it for motorbike trips around the country at any given time of the year.
27:45 Beware of sharks 😂
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No shark this very salty lack without any living organisms
@@Shaimaa-p7d 🤣Oh Shaimaa
subbed good channel
🙏 Welcome to the channel 😊
Hi Giselle!! am currently in cairo!! hope to meet you if you have time.. thanks to your vlog i made it to Cairo hehe
Thanks Venny, happy to hear my videos helped inspire your or helped plan your trip to Egypt. Have a great time in Cairo! 😊
Am getting curious a little bit 🙄
What did you experience afterwards ?
That's in the next video
you neededa 4 wheel drive lol
Nah man, my bike did just fine! I'm just paranoid about getting stuck now because when I first arrived to the oasis I got stuck immediately in a pile of sand, chose the wrong place to park 😅 But actually, while the piles of salt looked very soft, they were a bit harder than I initially expected. It wasn't too hard to drive through it, much better than if it had been sand
@@Gventures love it ..thx . keep it coming
Awesome video would love to visit, but we were advised against travelling so close to the borders by the UK government 😢 and two, our insurance would not cover us...three the girls said that it's too far from Cairo...but I'll just sit and enjoy your vlog instead 😉
Ehh yeah, my government also warns of traveling in the Western Desert, but I rode through there solo with my motorcycle with no issues to reach the Siwa Oasis. But it sounds like there's a few reasons, and it's true it is quite a journey from Cairo. Happy you can at least see it through my videos 🥰 And there's always next time 😎
@Gventures definitely keep safe 🙏🏾 ❤️
Do you think this can be visited in winter.. it looks like it can be a really hot place .. i guess its winter now isnt it
Yep it's winter now. It can be visited in winter, but how comfortable you are with the temperature is really more based on you and what temps you are accustomed to/comfortable with. You can google the daily temp in Siwa to see what it is, I have found that to be accurate all over the country, and I use it to plan my motorbike trips/what to pack, etc.
@@Gventures thank you
Hello @Gventures I literally just subscribed to your channel. It’s very informative and helpful. With that being said could you tell me if it’s safe to travel to Egypt now. I’m asking because I plan to take my niece & mother there in about 4 weeks and the travel advisory is saying to reconsider. I’d figure I would ask someone who’s immersed in the culture there. I would really appreciate if you could answer that for me or actually anyone who knows. Thank in advance
Hi Andrew, thanks man, and welcome to the channel!
Egypt is totally safe for travel, do not worry! Are you talking about the U.S. embassy website putting Egypt as a level 3: reconsider travel? Hehehehe, yeah, they have had Egypt on that list since like 2011 or even before, so for the past 14 years or so. As you can see from my weekly vlogs, things are normal here in Egypt. As I am driving around, do things look unsafe to you? Tourists are here right now traveling, taking Nile cruises, diving in the Red Sea, exploring all the ancient sites up and down the Nile. I made a video about safety not that long ago, I'll leave the link here in case you would like to watch it.
ua-cam.com/video/ZNDQxLwNKaQ/v-deo.html
Wow 😅I truly appreciate the helpful info you my dear are a gem.I’ve been watching and the way you move around town is like just another day at home.I was again if I didn’t state it in my comment mainly concerned for my mother & niece being that it’s a Muslim country and I (whether a lack of knowledge, research, or honestly just pure ignorance actually all 3 lol) didn’t know what to expect. I’m hoping we can make it to the salt lakes in Siwa. I am soooo excited to just take in the history of there. Again appreciate you a thousand times over and thank you.
@@andrewallace9613 No problem Andrew, I am sure you, your mother and niece will have a great time 🥰 I hope you can make it to Siwa as well! But I know it's a very long drive, so just go where you can with the time you have to make the most out of it. Siwa is stunning, but it really is so far out there. So if you're going to go, I would spend at least a night (or at least two, actually) to really enjoy the oasis, feel the vibes, and explore a bit. There's always next time if you can't fit it into this trip 😄Thanks again for watching, and if you ever have any other questions don't hesitate to ask 😁
Good evening gigi
Good evening 🤗
@@Gventures brave gigi 😅
I am wondering if you could do Go Pro 360 or VR videos on youtube? to see things from your eyes.
No....I don't even know what you mean. VR? If that tech was there as a real possibility right now, trust me you would know about it. Some UA-camr with way more money than me would have bought the equipment to make that possible and be producing those videos right now. I've never heard of anyone doing that, so pretty sure it doesn't exist (yet).
@@Gventures there's @360 channel on UA-cam. If you think it's interesting, GoPro 360 action camera should be rugged enough for your use. I'd be happy to chip in if you're OK with some support from fans of your content.
@@MustafaAdelAli Send me a link to the channel, because I have no idea what you're talking about. I have and use the Insta360 camera on my motorcycle rides, but that doesn't mean you can turn the camera wherever you want as a viewer. My Insta360 camera just films 360 degrees (obviously), which allows me to choose which shots to show while I am editing the video. But it's not like some immersive, VR experience. If that exists, I want to see it.
@@Gventures www.youtube.com/@360
@@Gventures no links allowed it seems. But if you search youtube for @360 official channel. It puts all these videos in one place. I can access the immersive view on my phone or metaquest. I think It's just a matter of uploading a version of your video with the fisheye lens feed without selecting a certain field of view.
Hi. My name is Sharon.... I'm in Cairo/Giza until tomorrow night 12/18. Your videos have helped me so much in planning my trip....I would love to meet you! Are available anytime tomorrow to come to Giza?
Sorry Sharon, I'm in Siwa! On a road trip
@ oh still out enjoying Siwa! See you on my next trip to Egypt 🇪🇬
OMG ... a shark behind you 🤣GR-EG
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Loved it! And from a production standpoint, it’s really nice how towards the end of the video, you showed us previews of upcoming videos. It keeps us intrigued and motivated to continue watching. Nonetheless, your videos are amazing as always!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🏳️🌈
Thank you WishList! 🙏
Are they very deep?
I don't know because you just float. I am sure the depths vary by the pool, but from just glancing at them all as I drove around, I would not say they are very deep. Would not want to dive in and find out though, that sounds like a world of blinding pain. 😄 Pun intended
@@Gventures as many times I’m in Cairo monthly still haven’t made to SIWA for sure 2025
I’ve floated in the Dead Sea…it is easiest to lay on your back!
Aaaa nice. I envy you floating there. Is it much nicer when you put down tye camera?
May be you can wear lighter color? Than it's not top hot?
What? Lighter color? Top hot? I'm afraid I don't understand what you are asking Nancy.
@Gventures ooooo sorry for typing mistake. You said its too hot to dress like you do but you need to respect their culture by covering your shoulders. You are wearing black so it absorb heat. What I mean was will it be cooler if wear lighter color?
@Gventures watching your Siwa video, so nice there. So special. And you are doing it on your own , solo . Respect.
@@nancylee9635 No not enough. I'm fine with what I am wearing anyways. Happy you are enjoying me videos ✌
ua-cam.com/video/DXXzNMCqEJc/v-deo.htmlsi=-floocNe8rV2RHJg
No woman has ever done that in Egypt
There are many beaches for tourists in Egypt
What you did is go swimming in a place in the desert and most of the people in this area are Bedouins...they don't have a culture of dealing with tourists...You are welcome in Egypt...I hope you go to beaches for tourists...because I was afraid you would be harassed while you were alone
What on earth are you talking about. I live in Egypt, it's fine
@@Gventures I am Egyptian and I am worried about you, nothing more. I wish you a pleasant trip in Egypt.
@@masonlux1444 Siwa is a place many people go. Bedouins are fine they are people, they are human just as you and I are. But I do love living in Egypt, and traveling around the country when I can.
@@Gventures I wish you a happy trip in Egypt
I travel the world. But while sisi is alive I.ll never set foot in egypt
Sure thing, no one's asking you to.
😅😅@@Gventures
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing. It was a good idea to go to the hot spring to rinse the salt. It's not a good idea to leave it on the skin especially in the sun.