Five and a half minutes that don’t come back. No crowds, no buses, no scrum on the centerline — forty travelers, a private charter in for the day, a reserved viewing site, and Ramy on the decks.
5½ minutes of totality over the Siwa desert. No crowds. Forty travelers.
On August 2, 2027, the moon’s shadow sweeps across North Africa and into Egypt’s northwest. Over the Siwa Oasis, totality runs about five and a half minutes — among the longest anywhere on Earth in four hundred years — in a dry, remote desert most eclipse-chasers will never reach. We fly you in.
Source: NASA Goddard eclipse predictions and TheSkyLive for the Siwa viewing coordinates; Luxor peak is ~6m 22s, so Siwa gives up roughly forty-five seconds for total privacy. August cloud climatology for Egypt’s Western Desert. Final timings confirmed before departure.
About forty-five seconds shorter than the Luxor crowds get — and still one of the longest totalities on Earth in four hundred years. You give up almost nothing.
No buses, no barricades, no ten thousand strangers on the centerline. Just our group, the open Sahara, and the sky doing the one thing it came to do.
We’re capping it at forty — the whole aircraft to ourselves, Ramy on the decks, and room to actually feel the day instead of managing it.
Siwa is one of the most remote inhabited places in Egypt — an oasis of springs and date palms hundreds of kilometers into the Western Desert, ringed by salt lakes and the golden dunes of the Great Sand Sea. For most of history you reached it by camel, across days of open sand.
At its heart stands the Oracle Temple of Amun. In 331 BC, Alexander the Great crossed this desert to consult it — and left having been hailed a son of Amun-Ra. The name we travel under is not an accident. This is the god, and the place, the whole thing points back to.
Around it: the mud-brick Shali fortress rising out of the town, Cleopatra’s Spring, the still turquoise salt lakes, and a Berber-Siwan culture that stayed its own for millennia precisely because it was so hard to reach.
On August 2, 2027, the moon’s shadow will pass directly over this oasis and the afternoon will go dark. That is the trip.
Siwa. The Shali fortress, mud-brick and salt, weathered a thousand years above the oasis and the Great Sand Sea beyond.
Forty seats, three tiers. The price steps up as they fill — no discounts, no haggling, just the clock. Here’s where it stands right now.
Arrive in Cairo, then fly south along the Nile: Philae and Aswan, the colossi of Abu Simbel, the Temple of Horus at Edfu, and Karnak and the Valley of the Kings at Luxor — with a dawn balloon over the West Bank.
Fly north again for the capital’s greatest: the Pyramids of Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Citadel of Salah al-Din, and the alleys of Khan el-Khalili in Old Cairo.
On eclipse morning, a private charter west over the desert to the Siwa Oasis. About five and a half minutes of totality overhead, the celebration after — then home.
The Oracle Temple of Amun at Siwa, the crossing that made Alexander a son of Amun-Ra, and why an oasis this remote became a place worth crossing a desert for.
Read the piece →An honest essay on the trade: Siwa’s totality runs about forty-five seconds shorter than Luxor’s. Here’s why an empty stretch of Sahara is worth every one of them.
Read the piece →What to bring. What to look at. What to look away from. We’re writing this with the guides and an astronomer; it’ll publish before bookings close.
Subscribe for release →A clear desert sky, five and a half minutes of totality, and the oldest oracle in the Sahara, all lining up on one afternoon — with almost no one else there. The pieces don’t arrange themselves like this twice in a lifetime.
A $500 deposit holds your spot, non-refundable for this one since we book so far ahead. The price rises as seats fill, so the earliest travelers pay the least. The rest is payment-planned — and you can tell us about yourself first if that’s easier.
Travel insurance with Cancel For Any Reason cover is required for this tripThis departure is fixed to a date the sky decides, and we commit to charters, hotels and permits a year ahead — so we can’t offer refunds. Cancel For Any Reason cover is what makes the trip possible for everyone: if life changes, you ’re protected rather than stuck. You can add it during booking through WeTravel at additional cost, or bring your own policy — we’ll ask for the certificate.