Al Tarfa Desert Sanctuary Lodge & Spa
Twenty desert suites set across two hundred thousand square metres of Dakhla Oasis
Al Tarfa Desert Sanctuary Lodge & Spa
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Set on a private reserve of some 200,000 square metres in the Dakhla Oasis, Al Tarfa rises where date and acacia groves meet the open sand west of the Nile valley. Pink cliffs and dunes ring the property; the nearest large town lies a considerable distance off, and the effect is one of deliberate remove. The lodge sits apart from the oasis villages, giving it a wide, uninterrupted view over the palm groves below and the desert beyond. It is a quiet base, not a resort strip.
Twenty suites and rooms were built using the same methods as the surrounding villages: mudbrick walls, palm-frond ceilings, branches of the tamarisk tree for beams. Each room was furnished individually, with hand-made carpets and lamps particular to that room alone. The Sahara Suites are the largest of the three categories, the Oasis Suites and Superior Rooms scaled down but built to the same method.
Days run slow by design. Guests can ride out by camel or horse across the dune line at sunset, or take a 4x4 into the Dakhla Dunes Park and toward the Roman and Pharaonic ruins scattered through the oasis. A spa, pool, and garden lounge sit at the lodge's centre. At night, with no town glow nearby, the stars over the reserve are dense and close.
Twenty suites and rooms were built using the same methods as the surrounding villages: mudbrick walls, palm-frond ceilings, branches of the tamarisk tree for beams. Each room was furnished individually, with hand-made carpets and lamps particular to that room alone. The Sahara Suites are the largest of the three categories, the Oasis Suites and Superior Rooms scaled down but built to the same method.
Days run slow by design. Guests can ride out by camel or horse across the dune line at sunset, or take a 4x4 into the Dakhla Dunes Park and toward the Roman and Pharaonic ruins scattered through the oasis. A spa, pool, and garden lounge sit at the lodge's centre. At night, with no town glow nearby, the stars over the reserve are dense and close.