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March & April 2006 trip to Algeria & Niger to see the total solar eclipse. Candid photographs from 14 days of travel
through the desert from Djanet, Algeria through Seguadine, Djado, Dirkou, Bilma, Fachi, The Tree of Tenere,
Agadez, Timia and Iferouane, Niger and back into Algeria to Tamarasset and Assekrem in the Hogar mountains.
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Schoolgirl in Dirkou  <br />
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Schoolgirl in Dirkou
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Maryann’s “Best shot of the Day” The diamond ring! <br />
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Maryann’s “Best shot of the Day” The diamond ring <br />
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Professional’s shot - (Diamond ring GIF animation) <br />
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Later that day, walking around Dirkou <br />
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Hot sandy streets, few people, nothing open <br />
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Surprisingly, some house have power here  <br />
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Schoolgirl in Dirkou  <br />
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Dirkou, a town in the shade <br />
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Tom teases the locals in Dirkou <br />
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A typical patterned metal door set into a mud walled house <br />
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Another public service announcement in Dirkou <br />
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Flip, Steve, Rei & Bev take a well earned nap after lunch, at the encampement in Dirkou <br />
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The salt mines <br />
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The salt mines, small stony outcrops which are excavated from the inside <br />
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Looking into the pit at the salt mines, cast forms stacked up ready for transport <br />
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The salt mines <br />
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Future salt mines <br />
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Cast salt forms ready for camel transport <br />
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Downtown Bilma, Last petrol and water before the Tenere desert crossing <br />
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Camp for the night, in the dunes outside Bilma, partway to Fachi <br />
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