Egypt
- Photo For Today: Reconstruction Work. Boys Will Be Boys!
2007 One of the abandoned Long Range Desert Group vehicles (a Chevrolet) from WW2, near the Libyan border with the Gilf Kebir plateau in the background to the east. Fabulous! It is snowing today in London. It couldn't be more different than the desert,...
- Daily Photo - Gilf Kebir
For reasons unknown, the only photos of Egypt that I have stored on my laptop are of the Gilf Kebir, so it was a choice of giving you more photos of north Wales, a rather nice collection from Italy, or photos of the Western Desert! So the Gilf it is....
- Travel: The Colonel's Caravan (gilf Kebir)
The National (John Zada) “Hit the gas hard and stay on my tracks,” our driver orders into the radio before stepping on the accelerator and catapulting us up a long and narrow wadi of red sand rising between two rocky plateaus. Tension grips the passengers...
- Daily Photo - 8 Bells
The word "Eight Bells" and an arrow pointing north are spelled out in empty cans of aviation fuel at the south of the Gilf Kebir. The cans mark an aircraft landing site, which was used during the Second World War by the RAF in Egypt. The need for a landing...
- Daily Photo - Abandoned Wwii Truck, Near Gilf Kebir
Here are my own photographs of the abandoned car at the Gilf Kebir, about which I was whittering yesterday. It is located opposite the mouth of Wadi Bakht, near the eastern edge of the Gilf. According to Andras Zboray's excellent website, the vehicle...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Chevrolet at the Gilf Kebir
The western edge of the Gilf Kebir is in the background of these photographs of a 1940s military Chevrolet, with cab in tact. None of the chevys belonging to the Long Range Desert Group had their cabs intact, which argues that this vehicle was once part of the Sudan Defence Force's Kufra Convoy, a motorized caravan which took supplies from Wadi Halfa in Egypt to Free French-occupied Kufra in Libya. The empty half-circle brackets mounted on each wheel arch used to hold rolled sand mats, which were employed to recover vehicles that had become stuck in soft sands.
- Photo For Today: Reconstruction Work. Boys Will Be Boys!
2007 One of the abandoned Long Range Desert Group vehicles (a Chevrolet) from WW2, near the Libyan border with the Gilf Kebir plateau in the background to the east. Fabulous! It is snowing today in London. It couldn't be more different than the desert,...
- Daily Photo - Gilf Kebir
For reasons unknown, the only photos of Egypt that I have stored on my laptop are of the Gilf Kebir, so it was a choice of giving you more photos of north Wales, a rather nice collection from Italy, or photos of the Western Desert! So the Gilf it is....
- Travel: The Colonel's Caravan (gilf Kebir)
The National (John Zada) “Hit the gas hard and stay on my tracks,” our driver orders into the radio before stepping on the accelerator and catapulting us up a long and narrow wadi of red sand rising between two rocky plateaus. Tension grips the passengers...
- Daily Photo - 8 Bells
The word "Eight Bells" and an arrow pointing north are spelled out in empty cans of aviation fuel at the south of the Gilf Kebir. The cans mark an aircraft landing site, which was used during the Second World War by the RAF in Egypt. The need for a landing...
- Daily Photo - Abandoned Wwii Truck, Near Gilf Kebir
Here are my own photographs of the abandoned car at the Gilf Kebir, about which I was whittering yesterday. It is located opposite the mouth of Wadi Bakht, near the eastern edge of the Gilf. According to Andras Zboray's excellent website, the vehicle...