Desert perspectives are intriguingly misleading (and insanely if you are lost), none more so than in the approach to this remote and enormous crater. After six hours of relentless, scrubless, mostly featureless high plain desert you are suddenly peering down into a mile-wide crater. The palm trees at the bottom are picture postcard stuff. The word namus means mosquitoes but this must be historical. We were not troubled at all and stargazing from deep down at the bottom with the perfect rim framing the shimmering-density of the Milky Way was unforgettable.

Deepest southern Libya. Nearest big town/small airport, Sebha. You'll need travel company logistics to get there. Tarmac finished 300 km from it. The rest of the way was a track but it certainly wasn't a beaten one.
Google map: bit.ly/gM6gCQ

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because there is a huge but blistered and blemished and fading mural on the brick wall, crying out in its neglect to be documented but there's a nasty little man in a blue 'security' suit who'll jump out and shout at you if you do and tell you to wipe that smile and those photos off of your chip but he's stupid as well as small so just agree and pretend and look compliant and submissive and go away and when you ask the hotel manager are there any restrictions on taking photos in markets he'll say "No"..."that's funny 'cos i got shouted at in Obor market" "ah Obor market yes no photos allowed in Obor market".
Nearby there is a great warren of stalls selling plumbing bits and bobs and stuff. Very relaxing.

Sos Colentina.
Nearest metro - Obor
Google map: bit.ly/b46obu

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