The Forbidden Sahara

According to the Web Site Viaggiaresicuri maintained by the Italian Foreign Office, all the travels in the Sahara must be avoided. At present, regardless your personal willingness to travel in dangerous area, it is basically impossible to reach any non-trivial destination in the deep desert. Our major areas of interest are all closed but the Gilf Kebir, where a lot of restrictions now apply anyway. The war in Libya has been the final blow to an increasingly narrow Sahara. Contrary to the Bagnold’s prophecy, we had not to wait for the Zerzura discovery to see all our dream to vanish and converted to dust!