The White Desert of Egypt and Libyan Desert Oasis (IV)
The White Desert is a limestone region invaded by the sand, probably the site of an ancient sea It consists of two zones, the old and the new White Desert, the first being the oldest geologically and the new, more spectacular.
Before turning to the White Desert itself, we stopped in a small oasis, a rarity in this particularly dry (there is virtually no vegetation in the desert, not even at the bottom of the wadi where there is no acacia). It is not far away the traces of graves which our guide told us that they are Roman (or at least to Roman times).
We now turn to the series of photos of White Desert, which are quite numerous and rather difficult to comment in an original way. We discuss the chalk formations at a location fairly typical, with a mimosa (which I did not take pictured). We are here in the former White Desert.
On this trip I found that digital photos (like this last photo) make it worse than film photographs (like the penultimate or the next), but this is not always the case.
The next picture, therefore, was taken to the location of our camp at night, in the heart of the old White Desert. I was surprised that we were provided tents, the rain is not frankly what is most likely to occur in these places. Anyway I am personally past. The vertical canvases leaning against the 4 × 4 we used a screen, but they were not absolutely essential.