Live Wilderness Adventure - Chapter 823 lost oasis

"finally reached."

At the top of the canyon, Bi Fang was holding his hat and standing on a camel. In front of him was a huge and magnificent canyon. The black river was meandering, and a huge number of wild camels gathered here to drink water.

The Mickey-colored expedition suit became a little faded after being washed in the sun for many days, almost white, and the sides of the Alpha were covered with a variety of loot.

The yellow and white bones, animal teeth, and black and white ostrich feather shawls hung on both sides. The breeze blew and swayed softly, along with the soft sound of animal teeth colliding.

【handsome】

[It would be even more handsome if it was replaced by a horse]

[Indeed, although camels are suitable for deserts, they are not as handsome as horses]

【Are you looking down on my Alpha? A headbutt for you! 】

[Give you a headbutt! 】

[Warning of the King of Headbutts]

A few days ago, Bi Fang met a wild camel in the desert. I don't know if he saw a lot of people or what, but he was not afraid of Bi Fang, who was riding a camel, and took the initiative to approach. He gave the camel a slap in the neck. If Bi Fang hadn't stopped him later, it might have been even worse.

Alpha's body size is one of the best among male camels. The wild camel was smashed to the front without any precautions. It took a long time to react with his head lowered, and ran away in panic.

After that, Bi Fang's fans named Alpha the title of the headbutt king.

"Go, go down."

Bi Fang grabbed the reins and asked Alpha to turn the direction and walk down the canyon. There were camels in groups below, and plants and trees were naturally indispensable.

What's more, it's a rare sight here.

Guelta Deutch.

This timeless oasis is located on the Ennedi Plateau and is one of the most magnificent hidden treasures on earth. Camels often gather to drink and rest.

Camel droppings have washed away over hundreds of years, blackening the oasis' waters and providing shade for a variety of other animals, including Nile crocodiles.

Bi Fang rode a camel and ran along the cliff, looking for a path.

"There is an ancient town nearby. The locals read it as Gadamus. It was an oasis city in the Sahara desert."

"Not far from the city, there is an endless desert. Any sand dune in the desert can be climbed by a child for a long time. After going up and looking south, there are countless sand dunes."

"There is an oasis surrounded by sand in the middle of the dunes not far from the town. Where the camels can drink."

"That's right, it's the one in front of us, Guelta Dage, one of the most famous desert oases, it is located in the Ennedi Plateau Canyon in the middle of the Sahara Desert, it belongs to Chad and is hidden in a canyon. "

"This is a legendary place."

There are many oases that have left their mark on history, and Dutch is no exception.

This place, deep in the Sahara, was unknown to the Western "civilized world" until the 19th century.

"I don't know if any water friends have played "The Age of Navigation 2". In it, there is a dream city that needs to go deep inland, and then half of the people can be reached without food and water. Timbuktu."

"Dutch is a place like Timbuktu in the game."

"It is to be said that in ancient times Africa was wetter than it is now, with abundant rainfall, the desert area was not as large as it is now, and the climatic conditions of the desert were not so extreme."

"So the ancients used to roam around for grazing and left petroglyphs on the rocks in the desert, indicating that there were still aquatic plants there at that time."

"In the large oases in the desert, some people settled and cultivated. Now the oases in the Sahara often have ruins in Greek and Roman styles, indicating that it was not difficult for external civilizations to enter these oases at that time."

Bi Fang followed the path and looked up to see some marks on the surrounding rock walls.

Some are stick figures, some are messages, and some are simple doodles.

These are all left by human beings here for thousands of years.

"Later, as the climate changed, the rainfall decreased, the desert area became larger and the oases shrunk, and it became more and more difficult to reach the interior of Africa, and these places gradually became unknown to the outside world."

"But this outside world is often relative. For the local African residents, these places are not mysterious, and the inhabitants are not untouchable and comprehensible primitive humans."

This is the case of Dutch in reality. Although the "civilized world" does not know its existence, Africans do. There are not only trade routes, residents, and even an academic center there.

"The network of trade routes across the Sahara has existed since the time when the Pharaohs built the pyramids, and gradually developed after 300 AD, with large caravans passing through them every year."

"These caravans are not like the caravans that connect to the Western Regions in the usual movies, just a few camels, and they can't occupy a single dune in a single column."

"According to Ibn Battuta, a famous traveler in Morocco in the 14th century, I don't know if anyone knew him, and he traveled all over the world as he knew it at the time."

"At that time, he recorded that there were at least 1,000 camels in a caravan, and the largest even exceeded 12,000!"

[Fuck, so many? 】

[What's so special, they can form a cavalry regiment! 】

【How much is this?】

Such exaggerated figures made the audience stunned.

However, they did not doubt Bi Fang.

Some common sense has been subverted, and there are good people who raise the bar, but when it comes to this kind of cold knowledge and characters that no one knows, there is no bar water friend to stand up and ask questions, and it is easy to show their half-pulling ass.

"Even if such a large caravan is still walking on thin ice during the journey, the first camel caravan must arrive at the next oasis several days in advance, and then return to the main team to replenish fresh water to ensure safe travel."

"The camel caravan that started early in Ibn Battuta's trip returned four days' worth of water from the Oasis of Vallarta."

"Ibn Battuta himself, in his later years, had the fulfillment of his wish, surpassing all people in the world in terms of travel."

[I don't think it's as good as Fang Shen (dog head)

[Indeed, what does it mean to go through the Sahara alone, tactically lean back]

[Guotai Min'an opened the emperor in Fangshen's live broadcast room! 】

【Big guy! ! 】

[Big Brother V50 Chakaifeng Cai]

[The number of emperors, Fang Shen, can't be counted]

In contrast to the audience, the barrage is full of boasting words.

Arrived in Chad, the trip has come to the second half.

The so-called success of crossing the Sahara is imminent, and it will add a legend to Bi Fang's resume. It is hard not to be excited.

【What do these caravans sell?】

[Yes, a camel carries 50 kilograms, which is 50 tons of cargo]

【Real beef batch】

Bi Fang thanked the audience for their compliments and rewards, and replied.

"All kinds of raw materials, luxuries and specialties, from the earliest obsidian for stone processing, to the precious metals later, and of course the eternal slaves and salt."

"At that time, North African countries imported slaves for use as domestic servants, while West African countries used to train slave soldiers."

"These are recorded in many documents, including one in the writings of Herodotus in ancient Greece."

"Starting in Darfur, Sudan, travel north through a series of small uninhabited oases, past the Harij Oasis in Egypt, and finally to Asyut in central Egypt."

"This road is better known as the Forty Days Road. Every year, slave traders drive 80,000 slaves on the road. After a 40-day trek to the slave market in Asyut, generally only 20,000 people can get there alive. The trade route was not abolished until the Sultan Mahdi uprising at the end of the 19th century.”

At its peak, there were as many as 1,400 trade routes across the Sahara. This large caravan was not destroyed by rail transport across the African continent until modern times, but such traditional caravans still exist in Central Africa.

Go once a year to exchange salt from the outside world, but the scale is only a few dozen camels.

Traditional caravans are still on the Saharan trade routes that began in the time of the pharaohs.

"If the situation is worse, the oases shrink, the population declines, and the water points along the road disappear, then the caravan will not be able to go."

"People from the outside can't get in, and people from the inside can't get out. After a few generations, even the local African residents can't figure out who is on the other side of the desert, and that place has really become a legendary place."

"But this does not mean that there are no people in the desert or that they have completely degenerated into primitive people. People still exist tenaciously, and there are national organizations. You can't say that it is not culture."

"This is the case with Dach, where it's called the Great Sand Sea, the second largest continuous sand-covered area on Earth, extending westward from Qattara, Egypt, through the steppe we've stepped out of earlier, Second only to the great eastern deserts of Algeria."

"Hundreds of kilometers of huge sand dunes are formed in the Great Sand Sea because of the wind. If it is easier to go north-south, you have to climb over the dunes one by one in the east-west direction.

The western slopes of these dunes are relatively gentle, and the eastern slopes are steep and covered with quicksand.

Therefore, from Egypt and Sudan on the eastern coast, it is almost impossible to enter Daqi. This place is semi-closed by nature, and even the indigenous people of eastern Africa do not know its existence. "

Until the 19th century, maps of central Africa, especially desert regions, remained mostly blank.

"Mechanized vehicles were not invented at that time, and all travel into the desert was constrained by the same factor, the ultimate endurance of the camel, which was completely equal to the natives, caravans and explorers."

"The camel team can travel 300 kilometers in the desert with spare drinking water, which means that the explorers at that time can travel 150 kilometers from the known oasis. If no new water source is found, they must turn around. If you move forward without encountering a new oasis, you will only be lost in the sea of ​​sand."

[It seems that Fang Shen is still holding a little bit hahaha]

[Without a map, cross the desert! 】

"In addition, North Africa was occupied by a series of pirate countries at that time, and Europeans could not explore from the northern line. Therefore, European explorers at that time could only know about Dutch from the old papers and the legends passed down by the residents of eastern Africa."

Entering the canyon completely, you will see wild camels.

Bi Fang did not dare to get too close to the black water.

Looking at the "dead trees" hidden in the black river, it is clear that the black river is the crocodile.

This is one of the few oases in the Sahara Desert where Nile crocodiles still exist.

If you get too close, you are likely to be attacked as prey.

This is the largest crocodile in Africa, second only to the largest bay crocodile, and the most studied one among the 23 species of crocodiles.

Bi Fang also had to be careful.

"In 1873, the German explorer Friedrich Gerhard Rolfes, sponsored by the Governor of Egypt, ventured westward from Dakhla."

"The journey over the dunes was too difficult for the camel caravan. A sudden torrential rain fell about 190 kilometers south-west of Dakhla, which brought them timely fresh water replenishment. Rolfes took this place. Named Regenfeld."

"But due to the influence of the quicksand, the camels couldn't climb up the eastern **** of the dune. They had to turn north and follow the valley all the way to the Siwa oasis in northwest Egypt. This exploration ended in failure."

"Rolfes even circumcised himself in order to pretend to be an Arab."

"It was not until five years later that Rolfes was commissioned by the German African Association to travel to Wade in Chad in central Africa, this time from the northern Libyan coast, and finally reached Daqi, becoming the first European to arrive here. "

Thanks to his own memory forest, Bi Fang can easily come up with such small stories, and he can remember the year clearly.

This kind of ability really shocked many fans.

[Damn, how does Fang Shen know so much? 】

【It seems to want Bi Fang's brain】

[Will the brain become smarter after eating Fangshen]

【You can only get prions】

[Sounds like this oasis is very cute]

[You can tell by looking at the number of camels in the river, there are actually crocodiles in the river! 】

[A regular visitor to the animal world belongs to yes, the only crocodile I can recognize]

"Every day, hundreds of camels rush to the knee-deep water to drink and rest. Thousands of camel droppings have dyed the water black over hundreds of years."

"We can only see a unique black river here."

"This is also the last remaining Nile crocodile colony in the Sahara Desert."

The canyon is huge and the oasis is also huge, otherwise a group of Nile crocodiles would not be able to rest here.

It is also big enough, the scene here is varied, and the audience even saw boiling water.

There are some oases in the Sahara Desert, which are nourished by volcanic hot springs and survived, and there is also a section of Daqi Oasis with hot springs.

Some distance away from the boiling stream, fish began to live. The pitch-black water was barely able to see through the sunlight, and a group of tilapia juveniles closely followed their mothers.

Further afield, UU reading www. uukanshu.com Bi Fang once again witnessed a hunt.

It was a small camel drinking water. After being bitten by a crocodile, it was dragged into the water and kept struggling.

How could the crocodile let go of this delicious food, a few besieged, the water rolled up with waves, a few dead rolled, and the little camel lost its anger.

Bi Fang looked at the Heishui River, which was less than three meters away from him.

The crowd was horrified.

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