Es Sfalat

From the desert we traversed miles of rocky landscapes that looked lunar. Seeing all the fossil and crystal sellers along the roadside Tagan was determined to find his own fossils and crystals and we stopped regularly for him to jump out of the campervan with an axe and wander off up a mountain. Hayyan loves to throw stones and collect stones in his bucket so he enjoyed this activity immensely. At one point in the middle of nowhere a guy appeared on a bicycle, who in exchange for a cigarette and a few dates escorted us to this amazing fossil graveyard: where entire rocks were peppered with ammonites. Amazing to think that at some point this landscape, on the edge of the sahara desert was once a sea.Read more