Live Wild Adventure

Chapter 827 Lost Oasis

"finally reached."

On the top of the canyon, Bi Fang held his hat and stood with a camel. In front of him was a huge, magnificent and beautiful canyon. A black river meandered and a huge number of wild camels gathered here to drink water.

The Mickey-colored adventure suit has become somewhat faded after being exposed to the sun for many days, and it is almost white. Both sides of Alpha are covered with a variety of trophies.

Yellow and white bones, animal teeth, and black and white ostrich feather shawls hung on both sides, gently swaying in the breeze, and 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 me, Alpha?Give you a headbutt! 】

[Give you a head hammer! 】

【Headhammer King Warning】

A few days ago, Bi Fang met a wild camel in the desert. I don’t know if he saw too many people or what, but he was not afraid of Bi Fang who was riding a camel. He gave the camel a ruthless slap on the neck, and if Bi Fang hadn't stopped him later, it might have been even more severe.

The size of Alpha is one of the best among male camels. The wild camel was smashed without warning. It was a mess, and it took a long time to react with its head down, screaming and fleeing in panic.

Afterwards, Bi Fang's fans gave Alpha the title of Head Hammer King, and the more they talked about it, the more they became a meme, and they could see it every day.

"Go, go down."

Bi Fang pulled the reins and told Alpha to turn around and walk down the canyon. There were a herd of camels below, and the grass and trees were naturally indispensable.

What's more, it is also a rare landscape here.

Guerta Dutch.

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

Camel dung has washed over centuries, blackening the waters of the oasis 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, and the locals pronounce it Gadamus. It is an oasis city in the Sahara Desert."

"Not far from the city is an endless desert. Any sand dune in the desert can take a child to climb for a long time to climb up. After climbing up and looking south, there are countless sand dunes."

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

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

"This is a place of legend."

There are many oases that have left a strong mark in 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 Voyage 2". There is a dream city in Timbuktu that needs to go deep into the inland, and then half of the people die without food and water."

"Daqi is a place similar to Timbuktu in the game."

"If Africa was wetter in ancient times than it is now, with abundant rainfall, the desert area was not as large as it is now, and the climate conditions in the desert were not as extreme."

"So the ancients roamed around and grazed, and left petroglyphs on the rocks in the desert, which shows that there were still aquatic plants there at that time."

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

Bi Fang walked along the path, and when he looked up, he could 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, with climate change, rainfall decreased, deserts became larger and oases shrank, and it became more and more difficult to reach the interior of Africa. These places gradually became unknown to the outside world."

"But the outside world is often relative. For local African residents, these places are not mysterious, and the residents are not inaccessible and rational primitive humans."

This is the case of Daqi 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 commercial road network across the Sahara has existed since the time when Pharaoh built the pyramids, and gradually developed after 300 AD, and large caravans crossed it every year."

"These caravans are not like the caravans that lead to the Western Regions in the movies that you usually watch, just a few camels. If you line up in a single column, they can't occupy a sand dune."

"According to Ibn Battuta, a famous Moroccan traveler in the 14th century, I don't know if anyone knows him. This person traveled all over the known world at that time."

"At that time, he recorded that a caravan had at least 1000 camels, and the largest one even exceeded 12000!"

[Fuck, so many? 】

[What the hell, they can form a cavalry regiment! 】

【How much is it?】

Such an exaggerated number left the audience speechless.

However, they did not doubt Bi Fang.

Some common sense has been subverted, and there are people with good things to say, but when it comes to this kind of cold knowledge and people that no one knows, there will be no quarrelsome friends who stand up and ask back, and it is easy to show their half-pushed buttocks.

"Even if such a large caravan is still walking on thin ice during the journey, the leading 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 travel safety."

"The camel caravan that started earlier in Ibn Battuta's journey brought back four days' worth of water from the Waratah Oasis."

"Ibn Battuta himself was still in his later years, thinking that his wish in this life had been fulfilled, and surpassed 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 single-handedly enter the Sahara? Tactical retreat]

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

【Boss! ! ! 】

[Big Brother V50 Cha Kaifeng Dishes]

[Fang Shen, the emperor, is too numerous to count]

In contrast to the audience, the barrage was full of boasting.

In Chad, the trip has reached the second half.

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

【What do these caravans sell?】

【Yes, a camel carrying fifty kilograms is fifty tons of cargo】

【Real cow batch】

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

"All kinds of raw materials, luxury goods and specialty products, from the earliest obsidian used to process stone tools, to the later precious metals, and of course the everlasting slaves and salt."

"North African countries imported slaves to use as domestic servants, while West African countries used them to train slave soldiers."

"These are recorded in many documents, and there is one in the works of Herodotus in ancient Greece."

"From Darfur, Sudan, north through a series of small uninhabited oases, through the Kharja oasis in Egypt, and finally to Asyut in central Egypt."

"The more famous name of this road should be Forty Days Road. Every year, slave traders drive 8 slaves on the road. After 40 days of trekking to the slave market in Asyut, generally only 2 people can reach it alive. This This trade route was not abolished until the Mahdi uprising in Sudan at the end of the 19th century."

At its peak, there were as many as 1400 trade routes across the Sahara. This kind of large caravan was not destroyed by the railway transportation across the African continent until modern times, but there are still such traditional caravans in Central Africa.

Walk 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 Sahara trade route that started in the Pharaoh era.

"If the situation gets worse, the oasis shrinks, the population decreases, and the water sources along the road disappear, then the caravan will not be able to leave."

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

"However, 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 for Daqi. Its location is called the Great Sand Sea. It stretches westward from Qattara in Egypt across the grasslands we walked out of. It is the second largest continuous sand-covered area on the planet. It is second only to the Great Eastern Desert of Algeria."

"In the big sand sea, huge sand dunes stretching for hundreds of kilometers are formed due to the wind. If it is easier to go north-south, you have to climb over the sand dunes one by one in the east-west direction.

The western slopes of these dunes are relatively gentle, while the eastern slopes are steep and covered with quicksand. If you insist on climbing east-west, it is easier to go far east than west.

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

Until the 19th century, the map of central Africa, especially the desert area, remained mostly blank.

"At that time, mechanized vehicles had not yet been invented, and all travel deep into the desert was restricted by the same factor, that is, the extreme endurance of camels, which was completely equal to indigenous peoples, caravans and explorers."

"The camel caravan can travel 300 kilometers in the desert with backup drinking water. That is to say, the explorers at that time could go 150 kilometers from the known oasis. If they did not find a new water source, they had to turn around. If you go forward without encountering a new oasis, you will only die in the sea of ​​sand.”

【Looks like Fangshen still has a little bit of a hahaha】

[Without a map, cross the desert! 】

"In addition, there were a series of pirate countries entrenched in North Africa at that time, and Europeans could not explore from the northern line. Therefore, the European explorers at that time could only rely on piles of old papers and oral legends passed down by residents of eastern Africa."

Completely into the canyon, wild camels are everywhere.

Bi Fang didn't dare to get too close to the black water.

Looking at the "dead wood" hidden in the black river, one can understand that the black river is full of crocodiles.

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

Get too close and risk being attacked as prey.

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

Bi Fang also had to be careful.

"In 1873, the German explorer Friedrich Gerhard Rolfs, funded by the Egyptian governor, ventured west from Dakhla."

"The journey across the dunes was too difficult for the camel team. A sudden heavy rain about 190 kilometers west and south of Dakhla brought them timely fresh water replenishment. named Regenfeld."

"However, due to the impact of quicksand, the camels were unable to climb up the eastern slope of the dune. They had to turn north and follow the valley to the Siwa oasis in northwest Egypt. The exploration ended in failure."

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

"Until five years later, Rolfs was entrusted by the German African Association to go to Vadai in Chad in central Africa. This time he went south from the coast of Libya in the north and finally reached Daqi, becoming the first European to arrive here. "

Thanks to his own forest of memories, Bi Fang can come up with such short stories at his fingertips, and can even remember the year clearly.

This ability really shocked many fans.

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

【It seems like I need Bi Fang's brain】

【Will your brain become smarter after eating Fangshen】

【You will only get prions】

【Sounds like this oasis is very cute】

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

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

"Every day, hundreds of camels come to drink and rest in the knee-deep water. Hundreds of thousands of camel dung have stained the water black over hundreds of years."

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

"It's also home to the last few remaining Nile crocodile colonies in the Sahara Desert."

The canyon is huge, and the oasis is also big, otherwise a group of Nile crocodiles would not be able to recuperate 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. There is also a section of Daqi oasis with hot springs.

Fish began to live at a distance from the boiling stream. The pitch-black river water could barely be seen with the sunlight. A group of juvenile tilapia closely followed their mother.

Farther away, Bi Fang witnessed a hunt again.

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

How could the crocodiles let go of the delicacy they got, several of them besieged, the surface of the water turned into waves, several of them died and rolled, and the little camel lost its life.

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

Everyone was horrified.

(End of this chapter)