Guelta d’ArcheiLegend A guelta is a pocket of water that survives in a desert canyon, and this one, in a gorge of the Ennedi Plateau, is the most famous in the Sahara. Camel herders bring their animals down the rock to drink and the water is stained... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Ennedi MassifLegend Sixty thousand square kilometres of sandstone in northeastern Chad, weathered by wind and heat into arches, bridges and towers, rising to about 1,450 metres. Water survives here in gueltas, desert pools, at least twenty of them... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Lakes of OuniangaLegend Eighteen lakes sitting in the open Sahara where under 2 mm of rain falls a year, which should be impossible. They survive on an aquifer charged during the wet millennia when the desert was green, and they are split into three... Open it on the map · Read the story
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