Egypt
Gulf Life (Richard Hoath)
This is a good and detailed article. I'm not sure how long it will remain on the above page.
- 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...
- 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....
- Daily Photo - Wadi Abd El Malek
It will come as no great surprise to regular visitors to the blog to find yet more photos of the Gilf Kebir haunting these pages, but the Wadi Abd el Malek is of particular interest for a number of reasons. Wadi Abd el Malek is a long wadi which penetrates...
- 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...
- Egyptian Rock Art
http://travel.independent.co.uk/africa/northern/story.jsp?story=641863 In an article entitled "In the footsteps of Count Laszlo" a trip into the Western (Libyan) Desert is described by writer and poet Robert Twigger. The destination is the Gilf Kebir,...
Egypt
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, one of the sons of Khedive Hussein, it was explored in the years running up to World War II by a colourful and travel-hardened group – members of the Zerzura Club, in search of the lost, perhaps mythical, oasis of Zerzura.
The Gilf might have remained unknown to all bar the most adventurous archaeologists and a few students of those early expeditions but for Michael Ondaatje’s 1992 novel The English Patient, which won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for fiction that year. Five years later and this lyrical book, woven around the intertwining wartime lives of four characters, was adapted into a film, winning nine Academy Awards. The Gilf Kebir, where some of the film’s most beautiful and moving scenes are set, had found a worldwide audience. And though the desert scenes were filmed in Tunisia, the film’s success meant that today a new generation endures the rigours of a desert trek to visit the Cave of the Swimmers, with its extraordinary wall paintings, in Gilf Kebir.
This is a good and detailed article. I'm not sure how long it will remain on the above page.
There's also a piece on the Gulf Life website entitled Off The Map And Onto the Page, which describes five classic books about desert exploration and travel and exploration. If desert travel is something that interests you then have a look at the main Features page on the site, which describes the appeal of deserts across the planet.
- 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...
- 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....
- Daily Photo - Wadi Abd El Malek
It will come as no great surprise to regular visitors to the blog to find yet more photos of the Gilf Kebir haunting these pages, but the Wadi Abd el Malek is of particular interest for a number of reasons. Wadi Abd el Malek is a long wadi which penetrates...
- 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...
- Egyptian Rock Art
http://travel.independent.co.uk/africa/northern/story.jsp?story=641863 In an article entitled "In the footsteps of Count Laszlo" a trip into the Western (Libyan) Desert is described by writer and poet Robert Twigger. The destination is the Gilf Kebir,...