Day 1
Italy-Tripoli
Departure from Italy with a scheduled flight and arrival in Tripoli. Dinner. Overnight at hotel.
Day 2
Nalut-Tripoli-Ghadames
Along the Djebel Nafusah reach Qasr Al Haj, a small village on the road to Nalut foothills. It 'an opportunity to enjoy the absolute finest fortified granary of the region. It looks like a Mini Colosseum, where the cells were stored grain, oil and other foodstuffs stacked on floors, reached by ladders and overhead walkways. Then, going up the abrupt escarpment of the Djebel, there appears dominant Nalut, once an important caravan city. They remain today the ruins of the ancient Berber village, the small mosque with clean lines and beautiful barn still intact, a real hive, storage and shelter for the population. The vegetation thins out more and more approaching the "Pearl of the Desert, Ghadames, Saharan oasis unlike any other. Hotel.
Day 3
Ghadames Sightseeing.
The old architecture has truly unique: an incredible tangle of narrow streets and arches that run and tie between the houses and under the houses, providing air in summer and warm in winter. Every now and meet irregularly shaped spots, still underground, decorated with jagged edges, wall decorations and fresh seats. The contrast between the dazzling glare of white walls in the sun and dense shade of subways is violent. The old town is almost deserted, recently preferred the comforts of the modern, but some houses are now being restored to their original beauty ed utilizzate come museo o luogo di festa. Non è raro incontrare qualche anziano a caccia di un po' d'ombra e magari di qualche ricordo. Un tempo Ghadames era un importante centro che manteneva relazioni commerciali con i mercanti delle coste mediterranee e le genti delle ancora sconosciute terre dell'Africa Nera. La sua vicinanza al confine la rende oggi interessante per gli scambi con l'Algeria. Ma Ghadames è anche e soprattutto l'oasi dai verdi orti, dagli originali metodi di irrigazione a pettine, dai grandi bacini di raccolta dove l'acqua non manca mai, dalle palme di straordinaria bellezza che si piegano sotto il peso dei datteri. Visitare Ghadames significa affacciarsi al mondo affascinante del Sahara. Campo.
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through the wide Hammada el Hamra, an impressive stretch of pebble gray moonscape. And finally, you reach the dunes Awbari, vertiginous ups and downs of the most exciting roller coaster. Dunes, dunes, dunes and more dunes! High, low, sinuous, sharp, star, a snake, half-moon, of various colors and changing, obligations, solemnly! The steps sometimes are not easy and you can admire the skill of the drivers, generally Tuaregs, recognizing the pitfalls of the terrain, the decision dealing with the slopes, in trying to walk the passage more suitable, to know thoroughly the desert. The arrival of the well is an unexpected chance to wash, refueling and rest in the shade of rare palm trees: a tiny green dot in a hostile environment. Then here's the Tassili of Maghidet, perhaps the most beautiful place in all the Libyan Sahara. A forest of pinnacles, a maze of towers emerging from the soft sand ... unimaginable landscape of sand dunes in the background of pink Titersine the edge of the famous Tassili n'Ajjers. And yet the recordings Aghum n'Uddaden with beautiful carvings of elephants, rhinos and cattle, we recall that the eastern borders of the famous Tassili n'Ajjers, a territory of 750 to 150 km
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the eastern borders of Tassili n'Ajjers
Guards natural Arghaia Aghum n'Uddaden Unexpected and the site of Wadi Karabtna, and longed for: a very unlikely track leads through a difficult territory to a slab of rock beautifully decorated with giraffes, lions and rhinos, precious evidence of the earliest period of art Saharan rock. The great figures represented here are very clear, with realism, detail and deep furrows and smooth. A surprise indeed very well deserved. Then it's time for Belgaramar, fabulous landscape of small towers that herald between the warm sands of the dunes soft Maghdar grilling and the huge "swamp" of green and black henbane Calotropis procera Aramat the mouth of the wadi. It 's just the beginning of a beautiful ride through the rivers flowing all the sand to the north, grazing land unchallenged for agile herds of gazelles and wild asses. The last, most distant, almost on the Algerian border, is Wadi Alone, whose bed, green, it's practically a forest of tamarisk. Inhabited since prehistoric times, is still the architect of one of the prettiest spots in the region: Tin Ahilen, a lake more or less water-rich (according to the abundance of the last flood of the river), the highest dune in the Erg Tanout Mellet . Unthinkable! Sinuous ridges around and play of light and Mouiass Ouan announcing the entrance of Wadi Aramat. The region is rich in rock art and here, just in Aramat, another surprise awaits the few travelers that travel up the river, entirely hidden by vegetation, a large, wide away from the ceiling is decorated with "polka dots" red, as if to make a 'imaginative and utterly mysterious plan. On the walls of beautiful and interesting paintings, including a wagon with driver and galloping horses of the most dynamic ever performed by the artists of prehistory. Then the infinite horizon rimmed by mountains of sand ... until Tachiumet Titersine ERG. fields
Day 10
The dunes behind the
Day 11
-Sabha Ghat (about
The valley of Wadi el Agial rich palm groves and villages at the foot of the dunes Awbari are the latest images that accompany us on the tarmac at the airport Sabha, in time for boarding the flight to the capital. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 12
Tripoli to Italy
