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
Terkei
A vast set of caves and shelters once inhabited, whose walls carry some of the finest Bovidian paintings in the Ennedi.
Rock artUNESCO World Heritage 2016
- Period
- 5,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
- Coordinates
- 16.9333° N, 22.0333° E
- Rock art
- The Ennedi Massif
History
The Terkei sector, in the southern Sahara within the World Heritage–listed Ennedi massif, gathers caves and shelters once inhabited. The rock shelters served as refuge, byre and sanctuary over several millennia.
The walls carry Bovidian-period paintings — herds of contrastingly marked cattle, slender figures, camp scenes — overlaid in places on older engravings and covered elsewhere by much more recent dromedary silhouettes. This visual stratigraphy makes Terkei one of the most legible sites for understanding the succession of Saharan art periods.
Galerie
Terkei en images
Our journeys
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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
DesertDemanding
Complete Chad: Ennedi and Zakouma
Eighteen days crossing the country north to south: the desert, then the savannah and its elephants.
- Duration
- 18 days
- Group size
- 4–10
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