A wonderful and adventurous tour of Lybia with our motorhome

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LIBYA
2009
The itinerary
Italy: Arezzo - Civitavecchia. Embarking on Grimaldi
Lines with stops in Trapani arrival in Tunis.
Libya: Nalut-Gadames-Takerkiba-Akakus-Waddan-
Cyrene-Apollonia-Benghazi-Tripoli-Sirte Gulf-Sabri.
Tunisia: El Jem-Tunisi.Imbarco, stop in Trapani.
Civitavecchia-Arezzo.

09/30/2009 - 01/10
To date 13 with fellow travel Civitavecchia embarkation, 16 to leave Italy. The afternoon and night runs quiet, at 8 the dock at 10.01 Trapani, in Tunisia we arrive at 16. Do practices of entry into Tunisia go to the center of Tunis where we stop at 18 in a large car park less than 500 meters from the Medina. E 'evening and visit the central streets of Tunis, we have dinner at a local restaurant. 02/10 We start early, get over Hammamet, Sfax, Gabes, finally Medenine where we get, after some 'of breathlessness due to research parking, we can stop for the night. 03/10 We are about 130 km from the Libyan border, going out early, hoping to overcome Quickly the two customs, meet our guide and proceed to the Libyan Nalut. The route we travel is different from that stated in the proposed program Agency, which included a stop near the Libyan border near Nalut namely south of the road we travel now and that goes along coast until you reach the border at Ras' Ajdir, explanations and ask
DIARY
we are told that our guide is waiting for us at this border because it was considered more easy to overcome! We arrive at 9.30 am hurry and enter the Tunisian border in Libya, eu.140 pay the tax, 00 per camper, we leave the documents to the Libyan leadership quickly to attend to the practices e. ...... we stop for more than 7 hours. Then, finally to 16.30, with no explanation for the delay but just guesses on why and how to us the passports are returned and handed the Libyan number plates that we apply to the camper. Let's go quickly and we decide to overcome Nalut failing to see the his barn, so as to take the road most of us can Gadames separates from where we should stop at the camp this evening, but we can not reach Having regard to the delay of more than 7 hours accumulated! It is still pitch dark traveling at high speed; get up and over Nalut so we can not see anything because they are 21, then the guidance (Henceforth defined as the driving Libya), tells us that we will find a distributor where we can do diesel fuel and rest for the night. Are 22.30 and sleep in the parking lot of the distributor. 04/10 Even the sun has to rise, we have to drive about 300 km and we lost time in customs. The stop for refueling, and shall be always the case for the whole journey, it is always very complicated, there is only one or at most 2 pumps useful for diesel then supply takes a long time (We are 11 RV and a car) We get to Gadames that are 11.30, now let's go local museum, then with the local guide we visit the same city Gadames old, now included between the UNESCO World Heritage humanity. A visit, the dark alleys the ancient city open into small squares where tribes wore their wares. A good deal has been restored to its former splendor and restored so that we see how they lived here once. Still there is a source of fresh water that allowed the old to survive in these remote places. The sun beats down on our heads and it is very hot, on the roofs of homes, where women tell us they lived, the heat is even hotter, the sky has a color turquoise and crystal clear. Are 15.30 and enter into a house completely restored and now used as a restaurant for tourists. Here we go barefoot and we sit down above the floor carpets and some ladies, including Mary.