Adoula
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:55 am Post subject: Dream Castle of the Sinai |
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Those who are tickled by castles no longer need to travel the long distance to Europe. There is one just as spectacular in the Sinai. ZAMAN , Arabic for “long ago”, a stunning desert castle, built of red and brown tinted stones .
Merging into the landscape, Zaman has arched ceilings, and is furnished and styled in an ancient design. But the castle uses all-natural materials and, most importantly, it is located on a cliff top above the Red Sea , complete with a dream natural beach.
The castle, situated south of Taba, is used as a location for private parties and is also rented to (affording) loving couples for “fairy-tale” style honeymoons.
All that is required to run away from the real world exists here - music, drinks, a swimming pool, beach, and, most important, breath-taking landscape.
Zaman is the fantasy of one man, Hany Roshdy, a 37-year-old Egyptian architect and businessman who dedicated five years of his life to the design and construction of this castle. "I had arrived in this place for a vacation several years ago and fell in love with the place," he says, "For days after days I would climb up the cliff with a mattress, sit here and dream about the castle I shall build".
http://www.castlezaman.com/location.htm |
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