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Ghat festival starts in 29 to 31
December of the year. It attracts
Tuaregs from all over Libya and from
nearby Algeria and Niger, all get
togather in an
ancient town of Ghat.
Ghat was favored by its
strategic position and an ancient time
of over a thousand years ago, was a
vibrant city, flourishing on trade and
blessed with a kind and clement nature,
which with its ample lakes and
savannah-like vegetation, was a haven
for hunters and farmers. It is guarded
by Akakus mountains and has grown around
its oasis and enwraps it in an intricate
web of alleys and houses, tightly
intertwined to ensure a long, cool,
uninterrupted shadow.
You got enough time to discover the
charming events in Sahara and join the
traditions of desert people (Tuareg). You will enjoy the Tuareg festival where
Tuareg sing and dance and the doors of
the old town are thrown open in
celebration.
if you interested to discover this
festival, we prepare complete program in
our tours programs,please visit
our tours
orogram.... |
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Nalut is in the Nafusa
Mountains and is approximately 2,000
feet (610 M) above sea level. Halfway up
the mountain that leads to the city of
Nalut a welcome station was prepared for
travellers entering the city.
A tent was set up next to a small mosque
with a group of people serving dates,
fresh buttermilk and ibsisa (a mixture
of spices and nuts that are roasted and
ground into a fine powder. Oil and water
is added and it's mixed into a paste).
We watched a presentation of camels carrying
traditional baskets filled with grains
and dried figs.
You will Visit the old city of Nalut
where a traditional crafts market, Then
the Qsar. In the past the people of
Nalut stored their stocks of food in a
well protected and fortified Qsar. The
Qsar is several centuries old. The
people survived by following their
flocks to various grazing lands and they
needed a safe place to store their food
and supplies. Each family owned a small
room in the Qsar. A maze of pathways
leads through the Qsar and small roughly
hewn wooden doors made from the trunks
of date palms cover the openings of the
rooms. Ladders and stairways reach to
rooms high above and a system of ropes,
pulleys and woven baskets helped move
foodstuffs such as grain, olive oil,
dried figs, dates and even dried and
salted meats to the rooms high up in the
Qsar. Rooms range from very small to
quite large and many of them still have
huge clay storage pots inside. You will
see an exhibit of geological findings of
the area. The fossil remains of a
dinosaur estimated at being 70 million
years old was found about one kilometer
from Nalut on a site that was used for
excavating sand for building purposes.
This discovery has brought many
researchers to Nalut from all over the
world.
"Washington
University article" Some of
the specimens were on display as well as
documentation and pictures. |
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