#...Libya Sahara


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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