Restore
Wellness Retreats
Mineral sand baths at Dakrour, the salt lakes, and the springs Siwa has healed with for centuries. Guided, unhurried, and built around how you actually feel that week.
ZIWA Stay · Eco-tourism
Siwa, slowly.
Beside the Temple of Amun, Aghurmi Hotel has kept the oasis way of resting for more than a decade. Salt lakes, palm shade, a kitchen that cooks what the gardens grow.
What you can do here
Five ways to meet the oasis
Stay a night or a week. Each of these can stand alone, or become part of a longer retreat — tell us what draws you and we will shape it.
Taste
Siwan Cooking Classes
Learn the oasis kitchen from the people who cook it — dates, olive oil, desert herbs and bread baked the way it has been here for generations. You eat what you make.
Discover
Kids Camp · ZIWA Learning Hub
A desert camp for children: how a farm works, how water reaches a palm, how to read the dunes. Hands in the soil, not screens.
Wander
Aghurmi Gardens
Walk the palm groves and olive terraces around the hotel in the cool hours. Quiet, shaded, and the simplest thing we offer.
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Float
Salt Lake Walk
A guided walk out to the salt lakes at the right hour, when the water turns and the crust glitters. Float if you want to. Most people do.
Around us
What Siwa holds
Cleopatra's Spring
A natural hot spring where Cleopatra is said to have bathed.
The Salt Lakes
Mineral-rich water with therapeutic properties, and a horizon worth the walk.
Dakrour Mountain
Famous for sand baths and natural treatments, with real healing significance here.
The Oracle Temple
Where Alexander the Great came to consult the Oracle of Amun.
Desert Sand Baths
A traditional therapy known for easing joint pain and improving circulation.
The hotel
Inside Aghurmi
A few corners of the place — mud-brick, palm shade, the pool.
Why this place exists
Our mission is to revive the ancient healing traditions of Siwa and share them with the world.
More than a decade ago Dr. Mohsen Abdelgaliel founded Aghurmi Hotel with one idea: that Siwa already knew how to heal people, and the job was to look after that knowledge rather than replace it. Sand baths, salt lakes, mineral springs — combined with his medical training, they made this a place people travel for.
Dr. Mohsen Abdelgaliel
Founder, Aghurmi
Good to know
Questions we are asked
Where is Aghurmi Hotel?+
In Aghurmi, beside the Temple of Amun in Siwa Oasis, in Egypt's Western Desert.
What is ZIWA Stay?+
The eco-tourism arm of ZIWA Group. We operate Aghurmi Hotel in Siwa and run experiences around it: wellness retreats, Siwan cooking classes, a kids' camp with the ZIWA Learning Hub, garden walks and salt lake walks.
How do I book?+
Send an enquiry on this page and a person from the ZIWA team replies on WhatsApp. You can also book a room directly on Booking.com.
Can children take part?+
Yes. The kids' camp with the ZIWA Learning Hub is built for children. Tell us their ages in your enquiry and we will suggest what fits.
What do the wellness retreats involve?+
They are built around Siwa's traditional resources — the mineral sand baths at Dakrour and the salt lakes. Tell us what you are looking for and we will shape a retreat around it.
Come and stay
Tell us what you're looking for
A quiet few days, a family week, a retreat for a group — write a line and a real person from the ZIWA team will reply on WhatsApp.
Finding us
Aghurmi Hotel, Temple of Amun Area, Aghurmi, Siwa Oasis, Egypt
Phone & WhatsApp010 3930 3939
ZIWA Stay is the eco-tourism arm of ZIWA Group, which also grows and develops agricultural land in Siwa.
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