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Back in the 80's I did a trip from Derby to Tamenrasset and back in a 2a safari with another guy in a s3. It was one of the best things I have ever done and I can't recommend it enough.
The Sahara is just magnificent, the isolation and solitude have to be experienced to truly understand what isolation is. when you are 500 miles from anywhere, no radio, no phone, no light switch, no near by water, haven't seen another soul for 3 days, just you, your Landy and what you have in the back, it's like the song "horse with no name"
The sky at night, all I can say is wow, it's worth going just for that.
I never imagined sand dunes could be so massive and they just go on for ever. We went from Marrakesh across the High Atlas (stopped of to climb Toubkal) into Algeria and then turned south. The first 3 days were just flat desert, like being on a sand sea then came the dunes and rocks, sea shells a petrified forest and then Fesh Fesh, not dreaded until you have been in it for a day trying to get out, digging in 45 deg heat.
Sunrise in the Hoggar mts is just awsome and if you go down that way you must camp there to see it.
All the people we met were very friendly (at least outside the towns) and all wanted to give you food or water, it must be how they survive when traveling.
On the down side I was chased by bandits for half a day in the Atlas and held on the floor in Fez with a machine gun at my head and a lot of shouting by some military types, wasn't scared honest
Well reason I'm writing this is I have come across some faded pic's and scanned them onto my pc though you might like to see a few. Sorry they arn't the best quality but they is old like me.
The Sahara is just magnificent, the isolation and solitude have to be experienced to truly understand what isolation is. when you are 500 miles from anywhere, no radio, no phone, no light switch, no near by water, haven't seen another soul for 3 days, just you, your Landy and what you have in the back, it's like the song "horse with no name"
The sky at night, all I can say is wow, it's worth going just for that.
I never imagined sand dunes could be so massive and they just go on for ever. We went from Marrakesh across the High Atlas (stopped of to climb Toubkal) into Algeria and then turned south. The first 3 days were just flat desert, like being on a sand sea then came the dunes and rocks, sea shells a petrified forest and then Fesh Fesh, not dreaded until you have been in it for a day trying to get out, digging in 45 deg heat.
Sunrise in the Hoggar mts is just awsome and if you go down that way you must camp there to see it.
All the people we met were very friendly (at least outside the towns) and all wanted to give you food or water, it must be how they survive when traveling.
On the down side I was chased by bandits for half a day in the Atlas and held on the floor in Fez with a machine gun at my head and a lot of shouting by some military types, wasn't scared honest
Well reason I'm writing this is I have come across some faded pic's and scanned them onto my pc though you might like to see a few. Sorry they arn't the best quality but they is old like me.
