Sahara West–East with VW Vans, 1984 • Part 6/8

Reports by Peter Reif
Photos by Peter Reif and Arike Mijnlieff

Part Six of Peter Reif’s report and maps recalling ÖSEWO: an Atlantic-to-Nile crossing of the Sahara in 1983-4. Despite their best efforts to acquire Libyan visas in Djanet, Algiers and Tunis, an escalation in the Libyan war with Chad means they can’t cross overland to Egypt and so have to ferry around across the Mediterranean.
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