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Leptis Magna - the Roman city in Libya became one of the most prominent cities in the ancient world in terms of strategic importance and city planning.
We have further Apollonia, Teuchina Arsinoe of Spartan origin, Osea (today's Tripoli), Euesperide (Benghazi) and much more...
Nearly all of the ancient flourishing Mediterranean civilizations left part of its culture in Libya.
The Second Ocean
Still Libya is more than it's North coast and European connections. It is as the Libyans describe it, a country between two oceans - the Mediterranean in the north and the Libyan Desert in South!
It's from the "South Sea" that the Garamantes culture came - a culture that can be traced as far back as 5000 BC.
Their cities were within Oases with strategic caravan route positions. The Libyan Desert (the Libyan along with the Western Desert in Egypt) was once green forests. So today, in the middle of the desert you can suddenly find rock engraving with crocodiles, elephants, giraffes and other animals that absolutely don't belong to a desert.
It's not exactly known what changed this fertility area to barren desert, but Mother Earth does have her whimsical moods. Or had the ancient Garamantes culture already discovered spray cans?
Suddenly behind a huge sand dunes, a lake.
There is many of them, but this one is in many ways the most unique; the salt lake of Gabraoun. Similar to the more famous "Dead Sea" and much used for it's healing effects. All water sources around the lake, even those just some hundred meters away - are fresh water, apart from Gabraoun. So if you want the Dead Sea without mass tourism - then you know another secret from Libya: the Gabraoun!
This vast desert region is also the home of the "Blue people", the Tauariq Bedouins with their famous blue clothing's. One of these will most likely follow any quality safari in the vast desert land. But when you go into this desert, you will soon find out what the Tauariq has known all along. The desert is far more than sand...
The landscape changes from huge sand dune areas to rocky mountain of every imaginable and unimaginable type. Oases and their cities are scattered around the desert ocean like Pacific islands. From "the jewel of the desert" - Ghadames
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