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Extract from the Bashendi Travel Guides: Buses can drop you at the highway turn-off for
BASHENDI
, with its sign promising carpet-weaving and Roman tombs. Having walked 3km across a landscape of acacia trees and red earth, you reach the village, whose sugary pink mosque with three white domes resembles a marquee from afar. The name Bashendi derives from "Pasha Hindi", a medieval sheikh who is buried in the local cemetery, which dates back to Roman times. Tombs form the foundations of many of the houses, which are painted pale blue with floral friezes and
Hadj
scenes, merging into the ground in graceful curves. The village is renowned throughout Egyp...
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