Tracks in the sand, Nefta, Tunisia

Palms growing in sandpits, near El Oued, Algeria. Their roots tap into the underground river

Camel Caravan with firewood near Touggourt

The city of Sedrata near Ouargla

Great Erg Oriental

pushing the R4

petroglyphs in the Hoggar mountains

volcanic necks in the Hoggar

Volcanic neck in the Hoggar

Oasis in Hoggar (back to top)

Guelta, or dry waterfall basin in Tassili

The hand of Fatima, Hombori, Mali

Angular unconformity between Hoggar and Ordovician Tassili

Idem closeup

Camel carcass near Djanet

"Peintures rupestres" in Tassili

View from the best restaurant near Tamanrasset

Tassili du Hoggar, near the Algerian-Niger border, a few remnants of the Ordovician formations

First nightfall in the sahel, grasses abound in the Azaouak valley

Dawn on the Niger River, just north of Niamey, Nigers capital

The Hombori mountains' higest mountain rises through the morning mist, 1000m above the plains.

The same Proterozoic sandstone formation occurs as the Roraima in Venezuela and Guyana

Highest mountain in the Hoggar an dthe Akar-Akar

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Kori Kori village on top of the Bandiagara hills, Mali

Graveyard of the Dogon, in the Bandiagara hills

En route to Djenne, furnaces on the Niger river

When the ferry got stuck, you have to pass the Niger this way

Flamboyant tree in Sifie, Ivory coast