This Christmas, if you want to get away from all the hype and have a relaxing holiday. Siwa Oasis is the place to do it.

Siwa's 'high' season is Christmas. Most places in town have European tourists and Egyptians staying with them and it has that high season feeling in town with the jeep drivers all busy and happy and everyone enjoying themselves. There are lots of other like minded people to hang out with if you want to party, or of course you can spend you days easily not seeing another foreigner and just enjoy the local way of life avoiding the Christmas hype and palaver all together.

The dinning table at the Siwa Villa is perfect for a monster Christmas dinner. It sits 10 comfortably but we could easily squeeze a few locals you may have meet who you might want to invite or some of the local foreigners who may well be interested in some mints sauce flown in especially.

Siwans like that fact that you are a Christian as any one who is of no religion is not to be trusted in Siwan culture. They like to see you 'perform' your religious festivities in the same way as you find Ramadan of interest. They under stand that alcohol is involved and will have no problem knowing your knocking back a few bottles of wine with your turkey as it is tradition after all as long as it is in private and not openly consumed outside of the Villa.

Coming to Siwa for Christmas is a good time of the year weather wise ( see weather in Egypt in December ) it is warm and sunny in the day but cool enough in the evening to have a roaring fire in the house and on the roof to keep you warm.

We can order a Turkey from Marsa Matrouh for you and using a bit of smuggled ingredients from home ( you must remember to bring the bisto) we can produce a full English traditional Christmas dinner for you or a totally different traditional Siwan meal... or we just leave it all up to you and you can enjoy being inventive to see how close a traditional meal you can make from what is available in Siwa which is much more fun.

Leave Lap land to the rest this year and go to the complete opposite... the Sahara Desert! If you would like to book a Somewhere Different Holiday over Christmas 2007 -08 click here

Take a walk in a remote oasis on Christmas day... not a 'Christmas Sales' sign in site.