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...Today the Siwa Oasis is still a gruelling, epic whole-day journey across the desert. You leave Cairo before dawn and pass the pyramids at first light....
...McAdam’s background in selling prefab steel structures encouraged his belief that the inhospitable desert rocks offered an ideal environment to create what he calls a “lonely-planet experience”....
...The backdrop is Jnane Tamsna, a hotel in Marrakech’s Palmeraie oasis, with candlelit group dinners and trips to the 11th-century Medina....
...From €151, cortiina.com Isabelle Kountoure 3Rooms at 10 Corso Como, Milan Stepping into this oasis of midcentury elegance during frantic fashion week always feels like a sanctuary: 3Rooms is my favourite...
...Epitomising a vanishing Cairene elegance, the siblings have for decades extended their Egyptian roots, and projects, to the Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert, which has been inhabited since 10,000BC....
...At the palm-fringed oasis of Palmeraie, on the outskirts of Marrakech, the technique informs the design of the lavish mansions, where the brick walls are covered in a coating of earth and lime in the manner...
...There are 49 bedrooms as well as 20-long stay apartments. A Cecconi’s restaurant will soon open on the roof, and there is a Soho Health Club area, a screening room and a swimming pool....
...Sitting beside Fernández in the assembly is a delegate from Chile’s vast northern desert region....
..., an oasis of 5,000 palms and the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna mountains....
...The pomegranates that sag from the trees of Arghandab, a lush oasis of high-walled orchards in the desert of Kandahar, were not harvested last year because of fighting between insurgents and government....
...“Most of our guests are in their 30s and find us on Instagram,” says Romain Michel-Ménière, the architect who opened the desert oasis in 2017 – its Zen-like spaces furnished with a mix of rugs, bamboo chairs...
...For Sontag, it was an oasis of European civilisation amid the desert of American barbarism typified by nearby Hollywood....
...Amid the incessant development, this little building is a respite, preserving a piece of waterside territory from more investment apartments....
...In 2017, a Bill Gates-run investment company spent $80m on a piece of Arizona desert land to build a “smart city”, tentatively called Belmont....
...Historians believe that a group of Turkic Muslims using an Arabic script have been the dominant ethnic people along a string of oasis communities in the Taklamakan desert for at least 500 years....
...My favourite room in my São Paulo apartment is my bedroom. It has big windows and a wooden ceiling and is a cosy place to read, watch films and practise yoga....
...His inspiration was a medina, with dappled light filtering through the palm leaves of a desert oasis. visitabudhabi.ae The beauty staple I’m never without is Oskia London, my go-to brand for skincare....
...Shayegan has sole use, calling it “a little oasis in the desert of ugliness”....
...It’s Woodstock, the Catskills town where Bob Dylan recuperated after his motorbike crash in 1966, a hippy oasis with a storied place in music history, well related in Small Town Talk....
...Najib Hakkou Aged 36, born in Morocco and now lives in Paris, where he co-runs People’s Drugstore, a beer and wine shop-cum-chess café “I was born in the Moroccan desert next to an oasis of date palms....
...“You can take a flight on a Friday morning and within hours you’re in the desert in the middle of an oasis,” says Tronquit. “You can get into your car and go kite surf on the ocean in minutes....
...To get away from the city, tremendous weekend resorts await a short plane ride or drive away along the Red Sea and Mediterranean and in the oasis towns of the desert....
...A dazzling oasis in the desert of grimly identical police procedurals. Review by CF...
...At this month’s annual real estate exhibition, developers unveiled plans for a replica Taj Mahal in the desert outskirts of the city, near half-built towers that stand as windswept reminders of the real...
...Like an oasis, Eastern Market is coming back to life amid the urban “food desert” that covers most of the city....
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