#ghadames

[hommedessept]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Camels by Fezzan, Libya

French vintage postcard with stamps of the Fezzan-Ghadames Military Territory

[whitepolaris]

EMPRESS ♡

via Instagram, unknown source // Ghadames, Libya 

[afrotumble]

[gwynbleidd892]

Whay I found while looking around is that, "Buildings in the Ghadamsi style feature stone foundations, adobe walls, roofs that are made out of palm trunks baked in adobe mortar, and vaults with gypsum or spongy stone arches."

I got that from this article

https://www.baytalfann.com/post/the-rich-heritage-of-ghademes#:~:text=Buildings%20in%20the%20Ghadamsi%20style,gypsum%20or%20spongy%20stone%20arches.

There is actually a lot of articles and papers about /photos of this city! It is really lovely!

Inside a Libyan house in Ghadames (photographer and date not given). Ghadames is a large oasis town in the region of Tripolitania, northern western part of Libya. It is commonly referred to as the 'pearl of the desert'.

[philophilophilophilo]

[friendswithclay]

“A Berber house inside the old walls of the mud city in the Oasis of Ghadames, Libya”

[sabinerondissime]

Ghadames, Libya

[cosmicanger]

Inside a Libyan house in Ghadames (photographer and date not given). Ghadames is a large oasis town in the region of Tripolitania, northern western part of Libya. It is commonly referred to as the 'pearl of the desert'.

[scotianostra]

The explorer Alexander Gordon Laing was murdered on September 26th 1826 in Edinburgh.

While some Scottish explorers' exploits are engraved on the national psyche, such as David Livingstone and Mungo Park, others like Alexander Gordon Laing have long since slipped into near obscurity. Yet he achieved that most coveted of prizes, Laing managed from here to Timbuktu located in the West African nation of Mali on the southern edge of Sahara Desert.

Gordon Laing, as he became known,was the son of school professor William Laing who initially educated his son personally. Alexander joined the military and rose through ranks, being part of York Light Infantry Volunteers since 1811, 2nd West India Regiment since 1815 and Royal African Colonial Corps since 1822 seeing much of Africa while in the army.

As well as the military campaigns Laing had an interest in geography, managing to find and map the source of river Rokel and relatively precisely ascertain the source of river Niger. In 1825 he managed to secure the permission for finding the source of river Niger and finding the route to the city of Timbuktu. His journey came with the blessing of the Famous explorers Joseph Banks, and Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst who then commanded colonies in Africa.

Laing was instructed to explore the hydrography of the Niger basin. His journey began on 16 July 1825, two days after he married Emma Warrington, daughter of the British consul in Tripoli. He travelled across the Sahara, reached the settlements of Ghadames and In Salah. During the last leg of the journey across desert of Tanezrouft his party became attacked by the group of Tuareg raiders, during which he wrote that he received over 20 wounds. In the end, he managed to reach city of Timbuktu on August 18 1826, barely alive and with only one hand. He thus became the first European to cross the Sahara from north to south. Laing wrote another letter on 21st September, which eventually reached Tripoli. This reported his position in the city as being very difficult, and noted his intention to leave three days later. It was later established that he had done so, and that he was murdered in the desert on the night of 26th September 1826.

The pics are of Laing, and the house he stayed at in Timbuktu, now a tourist spot.

[sahljournal]

GHADAMES, LIBYA - OCTOBER 29 

Woman with Tuareg rings on the fingers, Tripolitania, Ghadames, Libya on October 29, 2007 in Ghadames, Libya. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue)

[ghelgheli]

hadn't known him to post a remix like this before

[workoutandlovelife]

Details inside of an old house in Ghadames, Libya

[hakem0]

Astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi :

#Tripoli, the capital of #Libya🇱🇾🤍

Saluting all Libyans, from the heart of the desert to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and from Jabal Al Akdhar to Ghadames. Libya is a land of Arab and cultural diversity, where every city tells the legacy of civilizations from millennia ago.

[as-is-above-so-below]

im not gonna ask anything but— every single day, when I wake up, I open up my phone and see if there's any cardigan updates 😭 I love how you wrote the story so well on part 1! You made me fall in love with Price. LOL, I never once gave any attention to him before, but ghadam, your writing is so amazing, It's like you perfectly depicted him, haha. Patiently waiting for part 2 💙💙🩵🩵🩷🩷

AWWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Messages like yours really make my day and make me want to keep writing 🥹

I absolutely plan on continuing Cardigan! I’m dealing with a lot personally at the moment, so writing has taken somewhat of a backseat, but don’t lose faith! I appreciate your patience 🫶🏼

I’m also always willing to take asks/prompts for any of my works! I can’t promise I’ll use them, as it depends on whether it fits the characters and narrative, but good prompts always get the juices flowing