Well, maybe it is not the most appropriate season of the year to be posting desert pictures, but it might feel nice too all of you out there who have snow and very cold temperatures...so maybe a glimpse at this card will take your thoughts away and once you realize how it would be to be trapped in a desert, all of a sudden the snow and freezing temps wont feel so bad :)
The Libyan Desert is part of the Sahara. It covers some 1,300,000 km2 in Libya, Egypt, and Sudan and consists mainly of gravelly plains, rock outcrops, and vast areas of shifting sand dunes. Elevations generally vary from 150 to 900 m. In the northeast, in Egypt, the Qattara Depression drops to 133 m below sea level - one of the lowest points in Africa.
The Libyan Desert is extremely dry; it often receives no rain for several years at a time. Nomadic herders traverse the region, but permanent habitation is possible only at scattered oases. The northern part of the desert was the scene of intense fighting during World War II.
The desert features a striking diversity of landscapes including mountains like Jebel Uweinat (1980 m), the Gilf Kebir plateau, and sand seas.
The stamps are from a set of 16 issued in 1996, representing Maghreb Handicrafts
A depressing rainy day, when you are fed up with it all, calls for nothing else, but posting some postcards...esp. since one of them adds a new item in my received countries list :))))))))))))
Libya!!!!!!!!!!!
And I actually didnt receive just one, but 6 cards from Libya, written and stamped! So it was extremely hard to pick just one, but I guess starting from the capital seemed like the most *reasonable* choice to start exploring this country.
Coz in fact, this country is on the list of countries of which i know very little or nothing about....and my very first knowledge about Tripoli itself comes from when I was little....not because I knew where Tripoli was (it sounded more like the name of a river or a desert, esp. since the context made me believe so)
But anyways, the reason I knew about Tripoli was because my dad had this song on an ENDLESS REPEAT...he even had a tape done for him where on both sides there was nothing else but this song repetitively...so that he can listen to it continuously, without having to push the REW button....was wondering if i should organize a contest and leave you to guess which song im talking about...i could give you hints, but i really dont know how successful it will be, since the fact i have this word from this song stuck in my mind, doesnt mean it should occur to everybody else....the song is well-known, very popular somewhere in the early 90's i think, the singer is well-known as well....and the title of the song has nothing to do with Tripoli itself but with actually another geographical place on Earth which is not even in Africa...and the lyrics of the song itself contain a bunch of other places on Earth, but for some reason it was Tripoli who caught my attention.
Ok ok, Ill tell you....here it is....and Tripoli is right there, mentioned somewhere at 0:25 :)
The two stamps on this card come from a set of 16 issued in 1996, representing Maghreb Handicrafts
