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The Libyan Desert

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The Libyan Desert

The Libyan Desert Libyan Desert The world's driest desert is dotted with a sprinkling of oases where ancestral traditions live on today. Ed Scott / age fotostock

Made of huge dunes of around 1,000ft high, the Libyan Desert covers 23% of the country. It is a virgin space that has five oases and is inhabited by the Berbers, Siwa, Bahariya, Farafra, Dhakhla, Kharga people that live mostly off the cultivation of dates. From Farafra, you must visit the White Desert and its miles of pyramid, iceberg and mushroom formed limestone stalagmites.

Landscapes

Other reasons to go

  1.   Coasts

  2.   Towns

  3.   The fauna and flora

  4.   Monuments

  5.   Arts and culture

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