The Terramata Web Site is a tribute to
the amazing beauty of hidden places and to the secret beauty
concealed just outside the beaten track. It is also a very
personal geography made of photos, special maps and other things
to see from a constellation of lands that have been loved with a
deep emotion
Terramata started its web site operations in 2001. For two years
one the largest on-line pictorial database about the Three Desert
of Egypt (our second homeland) was made available to everybody for
free. It ranked first in the major search engines for a long
period until the Terramata shut down programmed in January 2003
for a much needed renovation. The site totaled about 40.000 page
hits in two years. Now the Egyptian section is off-line, back in
the drawer. A large part of our virtual Egypt has been published
on specialized magazines and books. Now we are starting to offer
new travelogues and to develop new travel projects.
In 2005 we started the first phase of the "Emeri Project", an exploratory program devoted to the Libyan sector of the Jebel Uweinat. In 2005, 2006 and 2007-2008 we hiked three times the high granite regions of the massif. The second phase of the project will be devoted to the survey of the rock art sites threatened by the increasing hooliganism and the mischief of the clandestine tour operators that are converting large part of the Libyan Desert in a garbage dump and a playgroud for rich uneducated people.
We are now (April 2008) starting the data collection phase (Phase 0.1) of a new Saharan project aimed at the exploration of the "Jebel Saitan", an isolated mountain that will require high tech hike hikes and logistic to be explored. Do not look for the "Jebel Saitan" on the Atlas: it is a code name!
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