Siwa is the jewel of the oases of the world, and one of the most beautiful places in Egypt, which has not been distorted by modern technological development with its negative aspects. It hides in the middle of the Western Desert, and is about 700 km away from the capital. The small oasis is one of the most important therapeutic tourist places, where God has blessed it with eyes Sulfur lakes, salt lakes, and the sands of Jebel Dakrour, which everyone goes to for burial in the sand.

What do you know about burial in the sand?

Many of us only know the name, but what is burial in the sand? What are the reasons that make a person agree to bury him in a hot sand with a high temperature? Where is that sand? And what happens from the practices during and after the burial? Only a few can answer those questions, but in this report, we take you on a healing and healing journey inside one of the most famous places in sand burial therapy.

“The Dakrour area is different from any other place inside the oasis because of the height of the mountain in it, and this height causes the sun to perpendicular to Siwa than anywhere else, other than Ramla here is characterized by its coarse grains that help more for the success of burial in the sand,” so people go to Siwa Oasis for treatment, as he said “Sherif Al-Senussi” from the people of Siwa Oasis, whom we met there and he answered all the questions we had on our travels until we got there.

Burial for one hour, without clothes

“Sherif” added during his speech, where they said: We have a specific season that starts from the middle of June to the middle of September, where we start our day at six in the morning, so we dig sand and make large holes that accommodate the human body, and at around one o’clock in the afternoon and with the sun’s alignment, it gets hot , we start to unload people without clothes and sand them up to the neck, and put a small umbrella on their heads to avoid sunstroke.

The sun to prevent a person from getting a heat stroke

Burial in the sand has two benefits, the first is to extend the body at a very high temperature, and secondly, the sand helps open the pores of the body. Al-Sanoussi continued: A person stays in the sand from a quarter to a third of an hour, then he enters a tent with the same temperature as the sand and wears his clothes, and we offer him two drinks, namely the rink. Sweat and anise to calm down, then he puts on his clothes and a heavy coat to do a process called “body camouflage”, then he goes out and heads to his place of residence after drinking lemon juice so that he does not get headaches and high temperature.

Visitors from all over the world

And after the person goes to his place of residence: “The person sleeps wearing a coat for about an hour and a half to complete, to release a huge amount of sweat loaded with toxins from the body, and this is what is required and is the goal of burial, after that the pores of the body are closed with olive oil and vinegar in order to He is not exposed to any air current that could harm him.” Sherif pointed out: “Burrying in the sand treats rheumatism, rheumatoid, roughness, joint pain, and cartilage, and every year we discover that it helped treat a specific disease.

Regarding the arrivals for treatment, he said, “The arrivals come from everywhere in Egypt, other than the Arab countries and foreign countries, including France and Italy, Europe and other countries.

Workers throw sand on a person who is buried

Burial in the sand is available to everyone except for those who suffer from weak heart muscle, or fracture, or who suffer from persistent high temperature, and those who suffer from cancer, and also burial is available for women like men, there are special camps for women that are served by women only, and there are no A certain age for burial in the sand so that children and the elderly can be buried is also available to them to experiment, and in the same way burial in sand.

Ease of transportation is one of the most important demands of the people in Siwa

Sherif Al-Sanoussi ended his speech by saying, “All we hope is to provide quick transportation so that people can travel easily and comfortably to the oasis, without hardship or fatigue, especially foreigners.”

Someone at the funeral

A person entering the burial

Burial in the sand

Tents after burial

Tents in which a person enters after burial

A person burial in the sand