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trans sahara trip march-may 1997
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Sunrise in Marseille. Obviously the first picture we took...
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...leaving marseille...
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...sunset in tripolis. no pictures all the way down from tunis...
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staying two days with mohammed taher in al gatrun...
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...doing paperwork, hoping to find companions for the way down to the chadian border and trying to convince the authorities to give us the exit stamp...
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...with success... a little sensation, as crossing the southern borders of libya used to be prohibited for foreigners. some few exceptions were made between 1996 and 1998...
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...leaving al gatrun on an april morning, all alone, with mixed emotions, a heavily overloaded car and a tubu guide...
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...who is competing so badly with our GPS that we completely get lost in the djebel bin ghanimah south of al gatrun.
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after a whole day without any tracks in the djebel bin ghanimah and an anxious night we finally find the way that leads southwards to the chadian border...
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last libyan checkpoint at the northern edge of serir tibesti...
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our tubu guide
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the tracks through serir tibesti - 500km through one of the driest areas of the planet. as the old marked way via the passes of korizo and mourzidié is full of land mines, new tracks have formed about 50 to 100 km east of the old way that is still shown
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...according to the GPS, we have reached the chadian border...
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...in the very middle of nowhere, we come across two trucks and the land rover of nathalie and jean-baptiste, who are on their way from paris to foumbane in cameroon, where they are based as doctors. we decide to make the way through the tibesti and down
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...preparing for the first night on chadian territory...
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...the "road" is getting busier...
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Afrika 1997034
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...reaching the northern edge of the tibesti...
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...the landscape is getting more and more spectacular...
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...in the little village of wour we have to register and hire another guide for the way to bardai...
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...the price seems to include an automatic gun...
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...resting in the arkiafera plain...
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...playing in the sand
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the "aiguilles de sissé" - a chain of rock pinnacles at the border between chad and niger.
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On the way to Bardai
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on the way to bardai...
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pic toussidé, one of the big volcanoes of the tibesti, appears in the mist
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On the way to Bardai, Chad
