Egypt
- Photos Of The Western Desert
The Western Desert - Roads to Gilf Kebir (photos by Yarko Kobylecky) Some lovely photographs of Dakhleh Oasis, the Gilf Kebir and other Western Desert locations. The photographs are highly saturated and the contrast is very high, so these are more...
- Long Range Desert Group
Egypt Daily Star News (Peter A. Carrigan) More slightly off-topic themes - this time it's the Pharaohs' Rally, but the author has made mention of the Long Range Desert Group who are certainly an important and intriguing part of Egypt's modern...
- Gilf Kebir - Join The Club
Gulf Life (Richard Hoath) The Gilf Kebir, on the south-western corner of Egypt’s Western Desert – remote, uninhabited, virtually rainless – holds a particular place in desert lore. Named and mapped only as recently as 1926 by Prince Kamal Al-Din,...
- Travel: The Gilf Kebir
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/tr1.htmAn article about the scenery and rock art of the Gilf Kebir: "Rock art is the oldest form of art left by the human race. While few countries are blessed with samples of such art, Egypt enjoys a handful of them....
- Gilf Kebir Feature
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/gilfkebir1.htm The Tour Egypt website has been updated this week with a feature on the Gilf Kebir, by Allan Watson. The Gilf Kebir is in one of the driest areas of the world - rainfall is so meagre that it cannot...
Egypt
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. I'm sure that I have posted some of these before but you'll just have to bear with me!
This is a shot of Eight Bells. For those of you unfamiliar with the site, this is the north arrow at the WW2 airfield used by the Long Range Desert Group, just to the east of the Gilf Kebir, marked out in fuel cans. Archaeology comes in all forms.
This is a shot of Eight Bells. For those of you unfamiliar with the site, this is the north arrow at the WW2 airfield used by the Long Range Desert Group, just to the east of the Gilf Kebir, marked out in fuel cans. Archaeology comes in all forms.
- Photos Of The Western Desert
The Western Desert - Roads to Gilf Kebir (photos by Yarko Kobylecky) Some lovely photographs of Dakhleh Oasis, the Gilf Kebir and other Western Desert locations. The photographs are highly saturated and the contrast is very high, so these are more...
- Long Range Desert Group
Egypt Daily Star News (Peter A. Carrigan) More slightly off-topic themes - this time it's the Pharaohs' Rally, but the author has made mention of the Long Range Desert Group who are certainly an important and intriguing part of Egypt's modern...
- Gilf Kebir - Join The Club
Gulf Life (Richard Hoath) The Gilf Kebir, on the south-western corner of Egypt’s Western Desert – remote, uninhabited, virtually rainless – holds a particular place in desert lore. Named and mapped only as recently as 1926 by Prince Kamal Al-Din,...
- Travel: The Gilf Kebir
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/tr1.htmAn article about the scenery and rock art of the Gilf Kebir: "Rock art is the oldest form of art left by the human race. While few countries are blessed with samples of such art, Egypt enjoys a handful of them....
- Gilf Kebir Feature
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/gilfkebir1.htm The Tour Egypt website has been updated this week with a feature on the Gilf Kebir, by Allan Watson. The Gilf Kebir is in one of the driest areas of the world - rainfall is so meagre that it cannot...