DesertDemanding
The Grand Loop: Ennedi and the Lakes of Ounianga
Fifteen days on the track linking Chad's two World Heritage sites, out by the northern route and back through the Ouaddaï.
- Duration
- 15 days
- Group size
- 4–12
The Ennedi Massif
The Oyo Labyrinths
A maze of sandstone corridors stretching for kilometres, walked between vertical walls with the horizon never in sight.
Geological formationUNESCO World Heritage 2016
- Coordinates
- 17.0500° N, 21.6000° E
- Geological formation
- The Ennedi Massif
History
The Oyo labyrinths were formed by the fracturing of the sandstone plateau. A network of perpendicular joints was patiently widened by water and wind until the rock was cut into blocks separated by corridors a few metres wide and tens of metres high.
To walk in Oyo is to lose all bearings: the sky narrows to a strip, the walls throw back ochre and violet light depending on the hour. Side shelters hold paintings and engravings, and the place served as a natural refuge — easy to defend, impossible to cross for anyone who does not know it.
Galerie
The Oyo Labyrinths en images
Our journeys
Y aller avec nous
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
Sites & heritage
