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Stories of Trips to the Desert. Desert of Sahara Desert of the Sahara - Trans-Saharan Trip 2002
I never would dare to assure that I know the desert the Sahara, that would be ridiculous fanfarronada. On the contrary, I cross the more, the more I realize it immense, the oversized thing and variable that is. Aside from some forced steps that do of funnel, every time I go by different sites, which makes its memorization more difficult. Much people think that to cross the desert of the Sahara she consists of following a track, but that only happens in the maps. In the sandy zones usually there are no tracks.
When one is lost in a great city that does not know, it feels anguish. But to feel lost in the desert is something more than distressing, he is terrible. Before a situation thus, each reacts of different form. In an end they are those that leave to all the responsibility in hands del that assumes that it knows more, and in another end they are those that only prefer FIAR of themselves. After crossing the desert twenty times by Algeria and Mauritania, still itself learning.
To read the Newspaper… Travels Trans-Saharan
Desert De Sahara in 4 4 xs - Mauritania
We cross a spectacular salty lake and we put completely in the desert of Sahara, were jumping dunes in the middle of a fantastic landscape, competing to the race with which another fox of the desert and we encamped under an impressive sky starred in the heat of Sahara, although at midnight the wind changed of direction and us key a shower of only five minutes, but sufficient to flood all the stores. On the following day we continued by the desert, were fast tracks but also sections with much sand, were there enters jump and jump of small dunes where Angel loaded the cow of his Terrano. More ahead deserts in the dirty one and left well of Bir the Gâreb and we decided to go towards the coast, leaving the route that we followed and directly cutting towards the beach avoiding some dune, from that way we arrived at Cabo Tafarit, a paradise after as much desert. To read the Newspaper… the desert of the Sahara in 4 xs 4
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Marathon trip to Morocco - Desert of the Sahara
After a little while two countrymen mounted in an old Torrot motorcycle arrive and they lower. They begin with the one of always: that if we are of Barcelona, that if Catalan, that if I have been in Barcelona, friend… . And they are offered to do to us of guide by the desert of the Sahara. The answer is NO, but it perishes that, although they speak Spanish and something of Catalan, do not understand languages neither, because they continue insisting: That if the desert of the Sahara is very dangerous, that if know I it and I guide to you… . Again the answer is NO, but they continue with the matraca: that if you can be lost in the desert, that if it is very easy to disorient… . New NO, adding even sarcastically that what we want to do is to die in the desert of the Sahara, since it is the goal of our lives, but understand it either. Finally Jaume already loses the patience (by the sight never it has had too much) and answers to them with bad ways, it puts in the car and it starts. Of blow for and it is backed down in reverse gear towards both suction to guides, almost squashing the Torrot with the abruptness of the maneuver. To read the Chronic Newspaper… from a marathon trip to Morocco Desert of the Sahara
The desert of the Sahara or the Sahara (equally valid forms, but with different accentuation) is the greatest desert of the world, with about 9.065.000 km ² of surface. It is located in North Africa and has more than 2.5 million years. Its name derives from the Arab Sahara صحراء translation of the word tuareg of Tenere (desert). One extends by the territory of the following countries: Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Niger, Libya, Egypt and Chad.
The desert of the Sahara shares border with almost all the countries of North Africa, predominant of Arab culture. To read the Desert Newspaper… of the Sahara
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