Photos - Tamanrasset to Djanet

We are now in Ghardaia, a city made up of five old fortified towns. It is really beautiful, so we have decided to stay a second night. These are some photos of the journey from Tamanrasset to Djanet.

Travel companions - Claire and Leon from Netherlands in a Series III, and Haakon from Norway on his bike. The Dutch carried our guide, and Claire spent a lot of time on the roof

The roof was a a popular place to sit - good view, good breeze and no danger of this old Land Rover going too fast, especially on lava boulder terrain.

We crossed great gravel plains known as regs, and any feature, such as these boulders, stood out for miles. 

There wasn't too much sand - our guide knows the desert well and was very good at picking routes that avoided tricky sections.

 Not many trees either, so we were happy to use this one for a lunch stop.

Leon - generally he spends more time under the Land Rover than on top

For the first day we travelled through volcanic hills, like this one where we camped. It had to be climbed, and of course turned out to be a lot higher than it looked - we earned that Amsterdam beer. The hills have basalt columns like the Giants Causeway in Antrim, and they have crumbled to form boulder slopes.

Our camp (above) viewed from the mountain top (below)

 

Morning coffee

Back on the tar road, and a long way from Algiers