Sarah, Karen, Phil and I went on a 12 hour adventure through the Southwest areas of Gharyan, The Jebel Nafusa (Western mountains). We visited several small towns including; Yefren, Bu Husayn, Ain az-Zarqa, Jadu and Kikari. At Yefren we stopped and took many pictures of the valley from the high cliffs and stopped at one area where locals were gathered and took pictures with them. This is also the area where Sarah and Karen were playing on the trees. Ain az-Zarqa is a natural spring hidden deep in a steep narrow valley near Jadu. At Qasr Al-Haj there’s a circular and enclosed fortified granary, it was closed today but we still walked around the entire place. We ended the day at Tameisa, a large abandoned and ancient stone village south of Jadu.
When we decided to head back we stopped at a road side baker and wanted to by a few pieces of flat bread so Sarah gave the guy a dinar and he gave us seven pieces, gees.
Our drive was a maniac driving back, I guess it was because Ramadan was starting soon and we had kept him out all day. He’s a good drive but very fast. The sitting arrangement was Phil in the front seat, Karen behind the drive, I was behind Phil and Sarah was in the back sitting in the middle position. Most of way back Karen and I were turned around so we could talk with Sarah. All the way back Sarah would grab the seat bracing for an impact because of the way the drive was maneuvering through traffic. One time we felt the van dip down forward on a hard stop, Sarah grab the seat extremely hard and her eyes pop out, her mouth opened wide but to her credit she never uttered a sound. That was a classic look on her face I will never forget. We made it back safe, had dinner and called it a night.
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