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24-MAR-2001

TASSILI

8° and 9° day - Discovery of frescoes of the Tassili. / Trekking of two days on the plateau. / The vehicles leads to the feet of the pass, 25 kilometers to east of Djanet. / The personal equipment and baggages were loaded on a convoy with asses that will follow the group. / With the guides of the National Park on foot we go up to the akba Arum along a ripid mule-track. / Arrival to the encampment of Giabbaren in approximately 3 hours. / From the edge of the immense plateau panorama on the rocks of the Tassili and more far away towards dunes of the erg of Admer. / Giabbaren is an extraordinary relief of round sandstone cupolas, eroded from the wind and modeled in the shapes more nearly roads and public squares of a fantastic city. / The base of these big mammells, dug from the inclemencies, forms of the shelters that probably have been used like rooms from the primitive people. / The rock walls literally are upholstered from hundred of paintings, all the styles here are represented to testimony of the numerous civilizations that have traced the history of the preistoric Sahara. /Can be followed the presence of the fauna (from the giraffes and rinocerons to the great herds of oxen), a process that covers a progressive climatic change, from a tropical and humid climate to a dry and poor of water climate characterized by the represented personages with round head in a symbolic and monumental style in a marked manner, sometimes with masks, that evoke mysterious ancestral rituals. / The period richer of frescoes corresponds to the third millenium a.C. and is characterized by the presence of great herds of oxen: it’s the age of the shepherds. / In the scenes of familiar life painted with realistic style the interest of the artist is towards a dynamics and perspective picture. / The overnight stay is carried out in tends at the field of Giabbaren, to leave from which for the walk to the discovery of the rocky paintings. / In the afternoon of the 10th day come down from the plateau and resumption of the shipment in cross-country vehicles.

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