Tibesti Mountains Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
mountain range in the Sahara desert of Africa
About Tibesti Mountains
Your ability to travel here (at least safely) is going to depend upon the prevailing political situation. As of 2023, it's a no-go zone. Incredible peaks poking out of the Sahara desert sands, yes. But it's also a land now dominated by drug traffickers, unscrupulous miners, refugees, warlords, jihadists, CIA agents, and just general chaos. This is the wild west, if the wild west had AK‑47s. The cause of the current chaos is multi-faceted, including the recent discovery of gold in the range, war inSudan, Islamic unrest in theSahel, and the Tibesti happening to lie on a popular cocaine smuggling route between South America and Europe. But chaos isn't really anything new here. The mountains have long been the domain of the Toubou people, a fiercely independent ethnic group that settled in the
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