Get Your Passport Translated!
Still most important, as always - the people you meet. Their traditions is strong, and so are their friendship. Each oasis has its own atmosphere and customs - "Islands of the Blessed" as the Greek Herodotus called oases some thousand years ago. For us living in a hectic culture where contact with anyone anywhere in the world is just a keyboard click away - adventure in the desert is truly a blessing.
We have mentioned a 7000-year-old culture in this destination, with cities in the heart of the desert - Greek / Roman remains hardly equaled by the origin lands of the empires.
It's also an area for more recent history, as Alemein in Egypt and Tobruk in Libya witnessed two of the largest battles during World War 2. The famous US bomber "Lady Be Good" was lost in the Libyan desert during WWII, to be found again in the sand by a British oil exploration team in 1959, and are today moved to Tobruk.
And a contemporary Libya, which is on a level I honestly did not expect to find - Tauariq in the south to virgin beaches and south Mediterranean cities along the 2700 kilometers (1680 miles) northern coastline.
Let us not forget to mention treasures for divers. You can dive the streets of ancient cities now under water or antique sunken ships (not replicas as in some destinations).
Why do we have to get our passports translated on a extra piece of paper?
In the end I had to ask and was told that President Qaddafi had made the rule as it was Internationally demanded that all Arabic passports had to be translated in English (along with it's original Arabic text). So visiting his people, he had just used our own rules on us.
Fair enough in my book!
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Have a look at previously unpublished photos from what before was called the Eastern Libyan Desert - very much alike what is found in Libya.
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"The dark night came closer and closer, we had been driving kilometers by kilometers in unknown direction
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