Tailor Made Holidays in North Africa & Arabia: Features

Discover Libya

Outstanding Classical ruins and breath-taking desert scenery have long been one of the worst-kept secrets of the travelling world.

  • The theatre at Sabratha (400 AD) has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1982

  • Only about half of Sabratha has been excavated, inlcuding this latin inscription

  • Part of the dried-up Mandara Lake, near Ubari

  • Rock art in the Akakus Mountains, depicting the now extinct North African elephant

  • Qasar al Haj has one of the best examples of Berber construction in Libya

  • The old town of Nalut has hundreds of chambers used for storing grain and oil

  • The Jebel Nafusa region is where the majority of Libya's Berbers are concentrated

  • A mosaic in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Cyrenaica (700 BC)

  • Umm al Maa Lake, meaning 'mother of water', near Ubari

  • Some of the rock art in the Akakus Mountains date back to 12,000 BC

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