The Great Man-Made River of Libya
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2015
One of the biggest civilian development project that Libya’s ex-president Muammar Gaddafi undertook during his forty-two-year rule was the G...
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The Mysterious Libyan Desert Glass
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2015
Between the borders of Egypt and Libya is the Great Sand Sea, an enormous sandy desert that stretches about 650 km from north to south and 3...
The Lakes of Ubari Sand Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2015
The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya. But 200,000 years ago, this was a wet ...
Qasr Al Haj: An Ancient Bank Vault
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2014
One of the finest example of Berber architecture is “Qasr Al Haj”, located on the Tripoli-'Aziziya-Al Jawf route in Libya about 130 km f...
Waw an Namus: An Oasis in a Volcanic Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2013
Waw an Namus is an extinct volcanic crater located in one of the remotest destinations in Libya, deep in the Sahara desert almost at its geo...
The Old Town of Ghadames
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2013
Ghadames, known as the “pearl of the desert”, is an oasis town in the Nalut District of the Tripolitania region in southwestern Libya. It is...
