A closer look
Getting a tan on a beach is for amateurs; real adventurers drag themselves through the punishing Egyptian desert just to float in geographic anomalies. Accessible via ancient trading routes, Siwa is packed with hundreds of natural salt lakes resulting from historic mineral mining. The salinity levels in these turquoise pools are actually higher than the Dead Sea. You literally cannot drown here because the water density violently forces you to the surface, leaving you entirely crusted in thick white salt the moment you dry off.
