Click on the large You Tube Thumbnail below to see a video of Jebal Akdar which means Green Mountain.
Click on the large You Tube thumbnail below for a video of Ptolemais & Apollonia
The first 30 seconds of the video of Sabratha below is rough but after that it gets much better and has good music. Click on the large You Tube video to view the Greek and Roman ruins which are about 100km west of Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
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Marble columns at Susa, which was originally a major port called Apollonia.This pre Hellenistic Greek Settlement, built in 700BC has an amphitheater, temples and basilicas. It is on the eastern coast of Libya.
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This site covers
four main trips around Libya, the first to Green Mountain
otherwise known as Jabal Akdar; the second trip was to
Leptis Magna; the third trip was to Sabratha and the fourth
trip was to Tobruk in Eastern Libya. For further information E-mail info@libyantravels.com
Although many people think of Libya as being in the Middle East, it is in fact
is in North Africa. Its western neighbours are Tunisia
and Algeria. To the east are Sudan and Egypt. To the
south are Niger and Chad. Its northern neighbours, over
the Mediterranean, are Italy, Greece, Sicily and Crete.
During
the period of the Lockerbie sanctions in the 1990s I
traveled in and out of, and across Libya. At this time there were no airline companies flying into Libya. We could only get flights to Malta or to Tunisia. Due to the sanctions all international flights were banned. After flying to Malta
we entered and
left Libya on the Tripoli Malta ferry. Sometimes
we travelled by road from Marsa El Brega on the Gulf of
Sirte to the Tunisian border and then on to Djerba,
Homer's fabled land of the Lotus eaters off the coast
of Tunisia. From there we flew from Djerba or took a flight from Tunis, the capital of Tunisia
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It
was during one of these arduous overland journeys that
I noticed out of the bus window, a silhouette of ancient
Greek or Roman ruins, magnificently illuminated by the
setting sun. It was just a fleeting glimpse of Sabratha,
as the driver was, as ever, driving at a frighteningly
fast speed .Sabratha,is 60
miles west of Tripoli. I had been unaware of Libya's
ancient heritage and at the time had had no opportunity
to visit or explore any of the historic sites. Years
later whenI was working in Libya and I had the chance, I traveled from Sabratha in western Libya to the Green Mountain
(Jabal Akdar) in Eastern Libya. Now getting flights to Libya is easy and many airline companies fly to differnt airports in Libya from Europe and elsewhere. It is a bit easier to travel inside Libya now. Tourists are welcome and some adventurous travellers make it their holiday destination.
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For
anybody interested in travelling in Libya the following
journeys make complete mini trips.
It is to the credit of the Libyan people and the government
that these ancient ruins are preserved and that anybody
can access them. In the UK monuments such as Stonehenge
are controlled, access is expensive and very limited.
The whole monument can only be viewed through an ugly
chain- link fence. It is not unusual in some countries
for any vestiges ancientculture, especially those associated
with invasion or occupation, to bedestroyed or kept secret.
In some countries such historical monument are off limits
and kept behind barbed wire and ancient pagan shrines
have been destroyed. In Afghanistan the Taliban destroyed
the beautiful hundred metre high Buddhas overlooking Lake
Bandimir in the Bamyan province where I stayed in 1975.
I was deeply saddened when I heard about the destruction
of these magnificent giant Buddhas. Libya has some of
the wonders of the world and I feel privileged to have
seen them, indeed, clambered all over them.
One October we set off early
on a cool autumn Saturday morning catching the company
bus to Benghazi on our way to meet out driver who was
to take us to our first step on the journey, the charming Qasir Libia...
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