If you suffer from bone and back pain and want a medical trip for relaxation and comfort, you cannot miss visiting Siwa Oasis, which is famous for medical tourism, as it Its sand contains natural elements suitable for alternative medicine purposes.

Siwa is an Egyptian city and oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert, about 300 km from the Mediterranean coast to the southwest of Marsa Matrouh, and administratively affiliated with Matrouh Governorate. The medical tourism season, or “burial in the sand” as it is called, begins in the Egyptian Siwa Oasis. Which is about 900 kilometers from Cairo Governorate, starting in mid-July and continuing until mid-September. The picturesque oasis opens its doors to the people of Egypt from the governorates and cities, in addition to visitors from Arab countries and around the world, a journey of medical tourism for which Siwa is known during this period every year.

The Feast of Reconciliation in Siwa started 150 years ago. The story goes that the tribes in Siwa were divided into Amazigh (Moroccan origin) and Arabs, and there were disputes between them over land until a sheikh came down and stayed on a mountain called “Dakrour” and reconciled them. There were disputes over land until a sheikh came down and stayed on a mountain called “Dakrour” and reconciled between them, and the mountain has since become a place of blessing for his followers … and the custom was established from the year in which the reconciliation took place that every year on the lunar nights of October … They collect a loaf of bread from every Siwi home and 10 pounds (the rich pay more) and the cooks start slaughtering the calves, boiling the meat and preparing the feast a day before it until dawn. The feast lasts for 3 days (the whole Siwa takes a vacation) and the cooks start scooping After the head chef boils the meat broth, the salt and spices are added, then they bring it down in a large square in front of the mountain and all the people of Siwa and their guests eat from it after the oldest man in Siwa calls on the microphone with the word (in the name of God) (Bismillah). . Shouts of joy are heard from children and adults, and everyone starts eating at the same time on the morning of the fourth day, when they hold a large procession that passes through homes and farms, in which they sing songs and prayers that are an announcement of the beginning of a new year without disputes, hatred or grudges among them.

Siwa is one of the most distinctive places in Egypt and has characteristics that are not found anywhere else, such as:

• Two species of amphibians, 28 species of mammals (including gazelles and foxes), 32 species of reptiles, 52 species of insects, 164 species of birds.
• More than 230 natural water springs, such as Cleopatra’s bath, which was mentioned by Herodotus in his history book, as well as Ain Abu Sharrouf, which has hot water springs.
  Siwa is also famous for its beautiful rock formations, as it has fossils of marine organisms dating back 30 or 40 million years.
• Salt water lakes that are deposited on their shores with layers of white salt that resemble snow, especially in the fall. The largest salt lake is the Lake of Olives, which is 25 kilometers long.
• The two temples of Amun and the Mountain of the Dead, which contains mummies and tombs from the twenty-sixth and twentieth dynasties and other Roman times, and the ancient city of Siwa (Shali Gali) and a tomb in which Alexander the Great is said to be buried