{"id":174890,"date":"2024-06-20T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-siwa-oasis-attracts-visitors-for-traditional-healing\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:34:11","slug":"egypt-siwa-oasis-attracts-visitors-for-traditional-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-siwa-oasis-attracts-visitors-for-traditional-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Siwa Oasis Attracts Visitors for Traditional Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The therapeutic tourism season in Siwa Oasis begins right after the Eid al-Adha holiday, bringing a wave of rejuvenation and excitement to the oasis. The treatment with sand baths, known as &#8220;sand burying&#8221; at Dakrur Mountain, starts in July and continues until mid-September each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">A significant number of visitors from various Egyptian governorates and abroad flock to Siwa for traditional treatments of bone and skin diseases, obesity, and to enjoy the enchanting nature of the oasis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Sand baths&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406200043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The therapeutic tourism season in Siwa Oasis begins right after the Eid al-Adha holiday, bringing a wave of rejuvenation and excitement to the oasis. The treatment with sand baths, known as &#8220;sand burying&#8221; at Dakrur Mountain, starts in July and continues until mid-September each year. A significant number of visitors from various Egyptian governorates and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":174891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,9778,4697,415,24069,257,12627,48823,254,9464,5269],"class_list":["post-174890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attracts","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-healing","tag-news","tag-oasis","tag-siwa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional","tag-visitors"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}