DesertModerate
Essential Ennedi
Eight days in the heart of the massif, flying in to Fada so that all the time goes to the ground.
- Duration
- 8 days
- Group size
- 4–10
The Ennedi Massif
The Lyre Arch (Djolio)
A double arch whose two openings suggest the body of a lyre — one of the most photographed profiles in the Ennedi.
Geological formationUNESCO World Heritage 2016
- Coordinates
- 16.8000° N, 22.0500° E
- Geological formation
- The Ennedi Massif
History
Known locally as Djolio, the Lyre Arch owes its shape to the collapse of a central pillar in a wall that had already been pierced. The two remaining bays, separated by a slender column, trace the silhouette that gave the site its name.
Like every arch in the Ennedi it is unstable on a geological timescale: the fallen blocks at its foot are a reminder that the massif keeps taking itself apart, stone by stone.
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The Lyre Arch (Djolio) en images
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