#...Libya Sahara

saturnic — 27.06.2011

Фото-эссе"Libya Sahara" by George Steinmetz. 21 фотографию. Комментарии на английском.





Wau al Namus, a dormant volcano surrounded by dunes of black sand



Ripples of volcanic sand line the inside of the Wau al Namus crater



Northern edge of the Murzuq Sand Sea



Northern part of Jebel Acacus



Ground art made by tourists on the way from Wau al Kebir to Wau el Namus



Center pivot irrigation project along the NW side of the Murzuq Sand Sea



Rock engravings of Wadi Methkandoush, said to be at least 12,000 years old



A car found wrecked on Saturday morning, in front of the regional assembly building in Sebha



Desert guide Khaled Derdera with the steering wheel of a truck left behind by an oil exploration crew in Murzuq Sand Sea



Base of a star dune in the sand sea of Murzuq



Eroded sandstone pinnacles of Maridet



Eroded sandstone pinnacles just east of Afozedzhar Arch, in the southern part of Jebel Acacus



Stone-age warfare as depicted at Wadi Tiheden, a rock art site in the Tashwinat region of the Acacus mountains



Umm al-Maa (Mother of Water) lake in the Ubari Sand Sea



Umm al-Maa lake in the Ubari Sand Sea. The lakes have slowly been drying up due to increased farm irrigation



Lake Trona, one of the northern-most of the Ubari Lakes, stained purple by high mineral content



Views of dry lake some 10 km east of Umm al-Maa in the Ubari Sand Sea



Pre-Islamic grave site Southwest of Maridet



Northern part of the Acacus region, where orange colored sands from Oan Caza have blown into the sandstone valleys



Wind eroded rocks of Jebel Acacus at dusk



Afozedzhar Arch, the largest natural arch in the southern part of Jebel Acacus

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