Niger - Meet a camión from Bilma in the Ténéré Desert

A caravan leaves the village of Imenan in Tassili - Algeria

Descent from the Edjefane pass - Tassili plateau - Algeria

Trail of caravans between Tan-Zoumaïtak and Titeras-n-Elias - Tassili - Algeria

In the desert, vegetation is often limited to individual grasses, sparse food for gazelles and cattle, but a poetic toy for the wind - between Gardel and Djanet - Tassili – Algeria

Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Shelter Tan-Zoumaïtak - Period «Roundheads»

Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Site Sefar - Hunting Scene

Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - The beautiful shelter of Tan-Zoumaïtak (28m2) In the shape of a cupola, worthy to inspire religious sentiments.

Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Site Tin-Tazarift - Several people painted with brown ocher

Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Site Jabbaren - Hunting Scene

Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Site Jabbaren - Pastoral scene painted in red ocher

Algeria - Séfar (Tassili-n’Ajjer) – Typical pastoral scene, 2.80 m above ground level.

Algeria - Tin-Tazarift (Tassili-n’Ajjer) – Odd "ship shape". However, the floatability is not proved.

Algeria - Terrarart (Tassili-n’Ajjer) – Engraving of four cattle, very deeply worked, partly polished. In the center "The Weeping Cow".

A Barbary sheep and two elegant women dominate a world full of mysterious characters and animals (Tan-Zoumaïtak site, Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria).

The “Great God” is performing a mysterious ritual. His body is long, his genitals oversized, his head deformed, the bumps on his arms inexplicable. This rock painting is 1.55 m tall and can be found at the site of Sefar (Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria).

On the high plateau of the Tassili n'Ajjer (Algeria), the arches of Ti-Sfad constitute a shrine of peace and quiet as they offer protection from the howling winds.

Every year, regular visitors meet at the Chouffane, a camel riding festival linked to an annual market that takes place at the Tarat oasis on the Lebanese border (Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria). On this occasion, the Tuareg tribe leaders, who otherwise rarely meet, gather together in one of the tents.

At the Djanet oasis in the Tassili n'Ajjer (Algeria): Fadi is playing the imzad. This single-stringed bowed instrument is made out of a calabash and horse hair, accompanied by the singing of men, who tell of war, love and nomadic life without end...

In order to reach Djanet (Algeria) on the Tamrit high plateau (Tassili n'Ajjer), one must overcome – on foot or by camel – three steep, rocky paths known as akbas, one after the other.

Instead of being engraved on the walls of caves, as usual, this impressive rock engraving of a sleeping gazelle was carved into a rock ledge under open sky at the Tin-Terhert site (Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria). Nowadays, this site, which was inventoried by Henri Lhote in the 1950’s, can only be reached on foot with the help of a guide.

These enigmatic threefold spirals in the Wadi Djerat were etched in rock with a simple stone wedge next to the imposing engraving of a rhinoceros on the northern Tassili Plateau, Algeria.

Tan-Zoumaïtak (Tassili-n'Ajjer). - Very beautiful dark brown capricorn from the epoch of the "round heads". On the right a medusa-like figure, below small cattles, and on the left an indefinable animal in the style of Séfar.

Oum Touami, site of prehistoric rock art - Tassili n´Ajjer / Algeria

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