Through the desert of Algeria

In the morning we continue driving through the national park. Every view is beautiful, really. It’s a pity that it’s so dry here that you can do very little in this region, and that hardly any animals live here. Most animals are nocturnal; of them we see only the tracks in the sand. Today as well, we pass several cave and rock drawings. We also stop at a small gorge. Between the rocks there is a narrow crevice we can walk through. The rock formations resemble Monument Valley. With a bit of imagination you can make out all sorts of shapes in them. We stop at a boulder with a hollow space underneath. It looks as if the enormous rock was placed on top of it later. A little farther on stands a hedgehog rock; its shape indeed resembles such an animal. Around noon we reach the lunch spot. Ibrahim tells us that this is the farthest point within the national park and the closest to the Libyan border. We are only thirty-five kilometers from the border.