thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 7月3日 02時27分

Photograph by @remibenali. Western Sahara, October 2001. The night is a gift for the camel rider because a clear celestial sky, usually exceptional in the desert, permits to navigate in any direction. In 1991 I hired a race car with a professional mechanic and driver in order to follow and photograph the Paris-Dakar motor Rally raid. We faced a dilemma as we were not fast enough to follow the competitors and terribly behind after a technical stretch in the canyons of western Libya. Leaving the race course then and cutting our way would save us several hundred kilometers of off-road tracks. We had to improvise... We arrived at midnight in a small village at the frontier and some inhabitants came out of their homes when hearing our car arriving in the night. We hired a young Tuareg man who knew how to cross the region to Niger. All night long, I shared with him the sole passenger seat in the front while our guest was navigating with the help of the stars. He looked at them regularly, every hour or so, showing which direction to follow to the driver. With no speech he pointed the way with his right hand…a bit more left, a bit more right, straight! He was also sensible to the ground and changed our course according to the type of surface we encountered. After driving 250 kilometers off road in the middle of nowhere, we arrived exactly to the modern rally caravan (with its planes and helicopters), just before sunrise. It was a great experience. We left with the race a couple of hours later. The Blue man was confident in his lucky star that a truck would pass in a couple of days to bring him back to Libya. A glimpse of a #storytelling that I am sharing on my feed @remibenali.
#Africa #Sahara #sahara #desert #adventure #keepalwaysdiscovering #lifeisnotasquare

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