Al Simhara

Al Simhara

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Al Simhara
Al Simhara, Egypt is a land of exploration, danger, and archeological thrills. Sims venturing to this rugged locale are sure to find excitement in exploring tombs or hunting for lost treasure within ancient structures such as the Great Pyramids or Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
Name	Al Simhara
Game	The Sims 3: World Adventures
Housed residents	40
Onomatology

Al Simhara is a pre-made destination sub-world that was introduced in The Sims 3: World Adventures along with the other worlds Shang Simla and Champs Les Sims.

Overview

Al Simhara is an ancient land built against a river, full of magic and mystery. It is a land of mummies, pyramids, and crocodiles. It is found in Egypt and features activities and items drawn from Egyptian culture. The name is a reference to the Sahara Desert of Egypt. This town features fully explorable tombs and hidden tombs, including famous Egyptian landmarks such as the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Sims can explore these landmark tombs, thereby undertaking adventures. The company MorcuCorp features strongly in these adventures. It is an excellent subhood for Sims to improve their Photography skill. There are numerous pre-made families in Al Simhara, although they all, unfortunately, lack description texts and money. A trip to Al Simhara costs §1600 for one Sim and §1000 for each additional Sim.

Features

• At night a gentle glow lights up at the bases of the Pyramids.
• The entire world is so hot that there is a visible heat haze during the daylight hours.
• Another mine monster is found here, in addition to those in Sunset Valley, Riverview, and Twinbrook.
• Mummies will be lurking the tombs in this destination, and they can curse Sims.
• There are fewer sims in this destination than in Sunset Valley, Riverview, or Twinbrook.

Exclusive Items

• National dishes like Falafel and Shawarma, new recipes for the cooking skill.
• The snake charming secret skill can be learned through a snake charming basket from the market.
• Expensive cameras for developing the Photography skill.
• Books that are exclusive to Al Simhara, including a Photography skill book.
• New fishing and collecting items to gather, like crocodiles and copper.
• Also, like in Shang Simla and Champs Les Sims tomb survival items like the Shower-in-a-Can and dried food can be purchased.

Lots

Al Simhara centre

Residential lots

Inhabited lots

• The Fig Tree House (Shalut household)
• The Date Palm House (Amin family)
• The Boswellia House (Diab family)
• The Cornflower House (Madbouli family)
• The Frankincense House (Kamel family)
• The Ished Tree House (Ameen family)
• The Emmer House (Moussa family)
• The Dellach Palm House (Badawi family)
• The Papyrus House (Rashid family)
• The Doum Palm House (Hawas family)
• The Mandrake House (Nagi household)
• The Sycamore House (Hosni family)
• The Daisy House (Barakat family)
• The Tamarisk House (Taymur family)
• The Flax Seed House (Lufti family)

Vacation home lots

• The Pomegranate House
• The Acacia Palace
• The Almond Tree House
• The Lotus Oasis

Townie lots

• The Fig Tree House (different lot, but with the same name as the Shalut household's lot)

Empty lots

• The Island Estate
• The Water Lily House
• The Oceanview Estate
• The Delta House
• 50 West Riverview Place
• 20 East Riverview Place
• 5 Eastern Delta

Community lots

Al Simhara Base Camp Al Simhara Market Camp Sun Camp Moon Camp Earth

Pharaoh's Oasis Ship's Oasis Water in the Sand Desert's End

The Pyramids

Tombs

See also: Al Simhara adventures

Al Simhara contains a variety of tomb lots as well as tomb puzzles on non-tomb lots. Each major tomb in Al Simhara has a distinct relic named after it.

Visible

• Abu Simbel
• The Great Pyramid
• The Great Sphinx
• Pyramid of the Burning Sands
• Pyramid of the Sky
• Pyramid of the Wind
• Ruins of Karnak
• The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
• Tomb of Discovery

Hidden

• The Copper Quarry
• Mastaba Ruins
• Small Oasis
• Unnamed orchard lot
• Bazaar Basement
• James Vaughn Command Center
• MorcuCorp Criminal HQ
• Library Under the Sands
• Graveyard Catacombs

Families

All Sims among these families have the Egyptian Culture hidden trait. NPCs generated in Al Simhara do not have this trait, instead they have the hidden trait connected to their job (e.g. Pizza Appreciator for Pizza Delivery), and other Sims such as Explorers have no hidden traits at all.

Ameen family Fikry Ameen, Inji Ameen Amin family Samir Amin, Fatima Amin, Imsety Amin, Satis Amin Badawi family Hassan Badawi, Rainia Badawi Barakat family Raffi Barakat, Dunya Barakat, Dalida Barakat Diab family Ahmed Diab, Zahra Diab, Ayman Diab Hawas family Sopdu Hawas, Geb Hawas, Sekhmet Hawas, Nepthy Hawas, Meret Hawas Hosni family Amina Hosni, Helmi Hosni Kamel family Abdul Kamel, Salah Kamel, Farid Kamel

Lufti family Aisha Lufti, Mena Lufti, Layla Lufti Madbouli family Fahad Madbouli, Sanaa Madbouli Moussa family Uum Moussa, Nabila Moussa, Aziz Moussa, Ameen Moussa Nagi household Youssef Nagi Rashid family Shadia Rashid, Farouk Rashid Shalut household Tahiya Shalut Taymur family Mahmud Taymur, Zaki Taymur, Ali Taymur

NPCs

• King Raymundo Rodiekhkare (Mummy)

Deceased Sims

• Emad Rateb (Fire)
• Fwazia Akef (Starvation)
• Naima Hakim (Drowning)
• Samir Kohar (Mummy's Curse)
• Suad Adham (Old Age)

The Sims 3: World Adventures (smartphone)

The memory puzzle at Archeology Dig

The Sims 3: World Adventures (smartphone) allows the player to send their sim abroad, either for §150 for an economy flight, or §250 for a first class flight. Egypt is one of the three locations.

In Egypt, a sim can complete two tours: Pyramids and Sphinx. Both tours are free, and consist of a presentation of various images of the site along with fun facts about it.

A sim can also visit the Archeology Dig, where they can complete a memory puzzle to find an ancient artifact. Artifacts can later be sold in the home neighborhood.

Next to the Archeology Dig is a Market, where a sim can shop for produce, buy street food, or practice bartering.

Sims

• Soraya
• Yasmine
• Mia
• Sameer

Trivia

The Llamafall

• In The Sims 4: Get Together, there's a fountain which is said to be an exact replica of a fountain unearthed in Al Simhara.
• In the texture files for The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, there are two placeholder unused textures called wall-panel-hieroglyphics and wall-stone-pyramid, suggesting that a desert destination may have originally been planned for that expansion.
• One of the empty lots, The Island Estate, is notable for being inaccessible by land, by water, and by tombs, the only pre-placed lot in a Maxis-built world to have this distinction after ocean swimming was introduced to The Sims 3. After Patch 12, it was possible to place a custom lot across the water gap to allow for a pedestrian bridge to the island, but placing it would cause all fish to disappear from the river. Changes made to Edit Town at later points (Most likely around Patch 42) removed the ability to create such a bridge.

Gallery

• Screenshots
• Promo images
• Videos

A Sim entering the pyramid

A mummy

Note that none of these were anywhere even close to resembling the released product:

A terrace of some sort. Few or none of the background buildings made it to the final product, and the terrace the Sim is standing on doesn't exist either and would be very hard to reproduce the angle of.

Exploring a pyramid.

In a marketplace of Al Simhara. No such bargaining or pointing system exists in the final product, though the image was used in interactive loading screens after an unknown patch.

Digging through a stone patch in a pyramid.

A man charming a snake. The lot doesn't exist in the final product, as the opportunity board is in the camp instead of the marketplace.

An intended downtown for Al Simhara. The final downtown was somewhat smaller and far less colorful.

Egyptian

The music of Al Simhara, Egypt

The Sims 3 World Adventures trailer has been released!

The Sims 3 World Adventures - Egypt Trailer