There is an area between the Nile valley and the Libyan border known as “Sahara gharbiyya”, the western desert. Here you find a lot of different landscapes like the Black Desert, the dunes of Abu Muharrik, the rocks and dunes of Al Agabat, hot and cold springs and the famous White Desert. And there is a few oasis there: Siwa, Baharia, Farafra, Dakhla and Kharga. Since a few years they start to rise more and more out of the big sand sea and the people become aware of their existence. But still far away from mass tourism their inhabitants kept their own identity until today.