Readers of the Financial Times took a trip to Egypt’s Western Desert this weekend, with a piece by award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart on the travel pages of the salmon-colored paper exploring “the myths and mirages, deep in the Egyptian desert.” Stewart takes us through the monasteries of Wadi El Natrun, Bahariya Oasis, Fayoum’s Wadi Al Hitan, the Black Desert, and then to Siwa in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and legendary photographer Lee Miller.

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