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Sabratha, west of Tripoli.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011. In these dark days of Libya with fire and blood, through my mind unforgotten pictures of our trip in October 2006. We were two, Yves, my brother and me, because the agency assumed Pharaoh departures from two passengers, and because the country, they said, had a bad reputation, did not attract tourists. We performed the whole journey by taxi, the driver is our guide, the ideal, no doubt.
Brother Yves Benghazi
A sea blue like the sky at which it flies its color, a side bristling with Greek and Roman ruins, a narrow strip of land rich in cultures and the infinite desert: four parallel strips of unequal widths cover the whole country from west to east.
Historically, the same succession of periods of foreign occupation: the antiquity of civilization Berber and Islamic footprint Italian anonymous modern world ...
Tripoli, the capital, offers all visitors.
The Arch of Marcus Aurelius.
Rue de la medina, which leads to the consulate of France.
City "Italian".
The modern Tripoli.
No women, but a man
This is surprising when one discovers Libya after traveling in most Muslim countries from Morocco to Uzbekistan, is the near absence of women in the streets. It is true that we were there during Ramadan, the explanation given to us by our guide. But
cons, displayed across large, the photo Mu'amar Gaddafi, the "guide" the immovable Jamahiriyya ("State of the Masses").
Both on the facade of the old citadel, now modern and rich National Museum, among the huge Green Square and the Medina ...
... in nature, as here, east of Benghazi, near the monument commemorating where the party is hot young colonel make his Revolution.
Why going to Libya?
At 26, I went to live and work in Morocco where I stayed for seven years, and that's when I discovered that we could live differently. I studied history, Islam, its official religion, and I finally speak enough Arabic dialect words, to communicate with the Berbers and Arabs who are not fluent enough or not at all French. I am passionate about this culture so different from ours, I am enriched to contact.
income to the fold, I wanted to keep in touch with the Foodland my years of training, and learn about other countries that reminds me of Morocco.
So I wanted them all, from Algeria to Uzbekistan, missing only Iraq, but adding the mysterious and fascinating Yemen.
Meeting.
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Our trip to Libya
From west to east, on beautiful roads with little traffic.
Sabratha Theatre
theater of Sabratha is a World Heritage by UNESCO since 1982. His pulpitum just below the stage floor, is particularly well preserved. Leptis Magna
The arch of Septimius Severus, at the site entrance
Leptis Magna, birthplace of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, who reigned from 193 to 211, was recognized in antiquity as one of the largest cities of the Empire. Leptis Magna
Theatre
Theatre, the first of its kind in Africa, was built in the first century AD. Benghazi The Italian cathedral
Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica. Almost completely destroyed during the Second World War, the city was hastily rebuilt. Cyrene
Lower City and the Sanctuary of Apollo
Cyrene forum in the upper town
Cyrene was the first Greek city in Africa. The ruins date back to most of the reconstruction of the city by Emperor Hadrian after the Jewish revolt of 115-117. Al Athrun early Christian Church
Qasr al-Haj Grenier fortified
We left the coastal road and we plunge into the countries. Before reaching the desert, we returned several fortified granaries to look outside of fortresses near Berber villages. Inside, open many overlapping cells in which the villagers would store their crops in order to protect it from theft or robbery. 
Well in the desert
Ghadames Sufi Mosque in Medina
Ghadames Street and covered wells light in the medina
The old city was built in the thirteenth century in the tradition of Berber architecture. It was built to deal with both large summer heat - up to 55 ° - and some harsh winter. It is a maze of alleyways and tunnels drilled at regular intervals of skylights. Now abandoned - a modern city was built next door - the city has benefited from a rehabilitation program funded by the United Nations. would have had to continue our journey to the fascinating Tadrart Akakus with engravings from the prehistoric and tribal art, but it was Yves already made a few months earlier, so ... engravings can expect some more ... or forever ...
