Waw-Al-Namus Volcano

The most remote place in the world on account of it lying almost in the middle of the Sahara. Waw al-Namus lives up to this reputation when you are driving to it. The ancient volcano has several superbly set lakes in its crater and a full day can be spent here walking up the volcano and swimming in its lakes. It is known as the eighth wonder of the world.  

Ubari Lakes

Southeast of the Ubari Erg, north of the valley of Wadi Adjal is Dauada. This region contains a series of lakes situated in the middle of sand dunes surrounded by palm trees. There are approximately 21 lakes spread out over this region. The most famous lakes are found in the south namely Mandara, Um el ma, Gaberon and Mafo .

Wadi Makthandush

Wadi Makthandush| is a deep rocky valley with its frontier lying between the barren plateau of the Messak Settafet and the stretch of land towards the sand dunes of Edhan Murzuk. Once a region of rivers and streams where hippopotamus and crocodile reigned and where elephants and giraffes roamed. Now it is an arid and barren land where everything and everyone has left to escape the advancement of the desert. What remains are the unique Rupestre paintings that tell us that this ancient fertile world really existed.

The Garamentes

The Garamentes, legendary and mysterious population of the Libyan Sahara founded the oasis–town of Germa (known at that time as Germa). They were famous for their traveling through the Fezzan Wadi on their horse drawn carts, for riding oxen with giant horns and for the ploughing of the land . One thing we know for sure is that the Garamentes were Roman enemies and probably the allies of the Carthaginians. They controlled the desert caravan trade from Ghadames south to the Niger River, eastward to Egypt and west to Mauritania. Their wealth and technical skill are also attested to by the remains of their towns, which were built of stone as were 50,000 of their pyramidal tombs.