TO GO WITH FEATURE LEISURE EGYPT HOTEL, 2002-02-03 (photo)

In a remote corner of Egypt where the last of a string of oases borders the vast Sahara desert, you can pay $400 a night to stay in a room with no electricity. But the guests aren't complaining. Stressed business executives, gauche urban intellectuals and maybe the odd writer come from far and wide to stay in this eco-lodge which owner Mounir Neamatalla refuses to call a hotel. Guests fork out the huge sums for the solace and beauty of the location, at the foot of a stunning white rock mountain called Adrere Ammellal in the local Berber dialect of the Siwa oasis, which gave the inn its name. Egyptian businessman Mounir Neamatalla (C) is pictured talking to two Siwan workers in front of the eco lodge in Siwa. Picture taken February 3, 2002. TO GO WITH FEATURE BC-LEISURE-EGYPT-HOTEL REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby AN