Desert Soul

Our second four-day stage took us south of Ghat (see photos), to the Algerian border (in the photo below) and further southeast to Akakus mountains, which is where most of the photos were taken, then onward, over a series of dunes and a pass to the northern edge of the sand sea in Murzur. We reached Jarmah today, after covering 560 km.

Hooooraaay

27.1.2006 | Ghat, S Libya

My dear readers: seeing that you're bound to get a more extensive report later, that we worked pretty hard out there, and that the keyboard in this place is filled with sand, which makes the keys stick and writing this not exactly a pleasant experience, I'll be brief on our recent adventures.

Freezing on the bikes

27.1.2006 | Ghadames, Libya

Loads of interesting things, of which I'll speak later. For the time being, let me just say that we’re in Ghadames, that it's been raining up until today, that we covered 530 km of road in rain on our first day in Africa from Hammamet, where we unloaded the trailer, 385 km on our second day in same conditions, and only a bit more than 200 km today, if I'm not mistaken. At 12:51 pm the sun first shone on us, which made us jump for joy on our motorbikes. We do that anyway, to keep warm; yesterday we went 120 km in dark, sand drifting on the road, with 60C outside. We were delayed on the border and changing tyres in Zuara on the coast of Libya.