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I met Ben Sebgab Lakhdar over a year ago the modern way: trolling the internet. Lakhdar posted his picture and some photographs of Tamanrasset and the surrounding desert on a website called Virtualtourist.com, designed to showcase the travels of its members. I sent him an email from Acton...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on February 3, 2007 from Tamanrasset, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Technical Bulletin: Electronics

28 years ago I spent a year on my bicycle with an instamatic camera and a watch. I had loftier ambitions and more substantial concerns this time around. 1. Laptop: Yes, this blog is possible in part because I bought the very tiny, very expensive, and truly wonderful Sony Vaio VGN-TXN15P...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on February 3, 2007 from Tamanrasset, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

La Reve

I dreamt last night that I was staying in a reed hut in the middle of the desert, and that I lay under a brightly lit almost-full moon sky with shadows sharp against the sand. Around me, mountainous piles of oddly shaped Boulders stood in silhouette and I could not sleep but instead lay for...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 31, 2007 from Tamanrasset, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Poste Tamegart, Parc Nationale de l'Ahoggar

Just some images from the last few days out in the desert, a generous invitation from Faysal to join he and his friend Cecile: Cecile, Faysal and the resident guardian making dinner Cecile, here from Belgium for some mental recalibration Faysal hunting for his next photograph. He has an...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 31, 2007 from Tamanrasset, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Near Death Experience

Faysal is up and the car is packed and the tire is changed in short order, my suggestion that we proceed with more caution is ignored, and we once again bomb down the road at 140km/hr or so, cursing trucks and reeking of gasoline. The fish smell seems to have abated. Approaching In Ecker We...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 27, 2007 from Tit, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Waiting

60 km later, the sky finally cleared. It became obvious that the blowing sand had been only 10 meters or so above the ground all along. I saw sand dunes the size of mountains as we left the Plateau de Tademait and entered a canyon for Arak. Arak is a small group of houses made of earthen...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 27, 2007 from I-n-Amguel, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Flat

The Plateau du Tademait surrounding In Salah is as flat as the palm of your hand, and that is where it gets its name in Tamachek. A black granule lies over red sand stretching far beyond the horizon, and it is tempting through untrained or sensitized eyes to call it “Nothing”. The black...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 26, 2007 from I-n-Amguel, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

El Meniaa

Wolf Gaudlitz called the night before I left Ghardaia for Tamanrasset to say he had gotten his truck to the Kherfi farm, but that the part Ibrahim had found at the Mercedes dealership in Ghardaia wasn’t going to work and he would have to wait for it to be sent from Germany. It could take a...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 25, 2007 from El Golea, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Sand

The headwind was extremely powerful, and we burned through a full tank and most of the jerry can by 4pm, when we pulled into In Salah; a town, it seems, beset by sand. I saw huge dunes piled over garden walls, and houses abandoned to the inexorable drifts. The desert around the town is...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 25, 2007 from I-n-Salah, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Fire

Wolf and I packed up and got ready to leave before the day advanced much so to avoid traveling at night. He turned the ignition key, sent power to the starter motor, applied some pressure to the gas pedal and then looked at me with a slight frown. He asked, “What is that strange noise”? We...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on January 23, 2007 from Ghardaia, Algeria
from the travel blog: Harmattan

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