Simon Akam

Photography: Egypt

A safari truck stands by as visitors bathe in the hot springs at Bir Wahed, on the edge of the Great Sand Sea near Siwa Oasis, Egypt. In the Second World War Siwa was the headquarters of the Long Range Desert Group, a British Army unit formed to "commit piracy upon the high desert." (Simon Akam)
September 2007
A safari truck stands by as visitors bathe in the hot springs at Bir Wahed, on the edge of the Great Sand Sea near Siwa Oasis, Egypt. In the Second World War Siwa was the headquarters of the Long Range Desert Group, a British Army unit formed to "commit piracy upon the high desert." (Simon Akam)