"It's finally here."

At the top of the canyon, Bi Fang stood with his hat on his camel, and in front of him was a huge and magnificent canyon, with a black river meandering and a huge number of wild camels gathered here to drink.

Mickey's expedition suit had faded a little after days of exposure to the sun, almost white, and the sides of the alpha were covered with loot.

Yellow-white bones, animal teeth, and black and white ostrich feathers hung on both sides, and the breeze blew and swayed gently, and the soft sound of the beast's teeth colliding sounded by the way.

【Handsome】

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

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

[Are you looking down on me Alpha? Give you a headhammer! 】

[Give you a head hammer!] 】

【Warning from the Hammer King】

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, he was not afraid of Bi Fang, who was riding a camel, and took the initiative to approach, but Alpha didn't know what was crazy, and went up and shook his neck to give the camel a ruthless blow, if it wasn't for Bi Fang's follow-up stop, it might be even more excessive.

The alpha is one of the best in the male camel, and the wild camel was smashed unguarded, and it took a long time to react with his head down, screaming and fleeing in panic.

After that, Bi Fang's fans gave Alpha the title of the head hammer king, and the more he talked about it, the more energetic he became, and it became a stalk, which can be seen every day.

"Go, go down."

Bi Fang tugged on the reins, causing Alpha to turn around and walk towards the bottom of the canyon, where there were herds of camels below, and naturally grass and trees were indispensable.

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

Guerta Ducky.

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

Camel dung has been washed over hundreds of years, blackening the oasis' water and providing shade for a variety of other animals, including the Nile crocodile.

Bi Fang rode a camel and ran along the cliffs in search of a path.

"There is an ancient town nearby, and the locals pronounce it Gadamus. It was an oasis city in the Sahara Desert. ”

"Not far outside the city is the desert as far as the eye can see. Any sand dune in the desert can be climbed by a child for a long time. When you go up and look south, you can see countless sand dunes. ”

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

"That's right, it's the one in front of us, Guerta Daci, one of the most famous desert oases, located in the middle of the Sahara Desert, in the valley of the Ennedi plateau, in the territory of Chad, hidden in a canyon."

"It's a land of legends."

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

This place is deep in the Sahara and was not known to the Western "civilized world" until the 19th century.

"I don't know if any sailors have played "Age of Exploration 2", which has a fantasy city that needs to go deep inland, and then die without food and water - Timbuktu."

"Ducky is a place similar to Timbuktu in a game."

"In ancient times, Africa was wetter than it is now, with abundant rainfall, and 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 roamed around grazing and left petroglyphs on the rocks of the desert, indicating that there were still places where there were water and grass at that time."

"The large oases in the interior of the desert were settled and cultivated, and the oases in the Saharan are often in the ruins of the Greek and Roman styles, suggesting that it was not difficult for external civilizations to enter these oases."

Bi Fang walked along the path and looked up to see some markings on the surrounding rock faces.

Some are stick figures, some are information, and some are simple graffiti.

These are what mankind has left here for thousands of years.

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

"But this outside world is often relative, and for the local inhabitants of Africa, these places are not mysterious, and the inhabitants are not untouchable and rational primitive humans."

This is the case in the real world, although the "civilized world" does not know about its existence, but Africans do, there are not only trade routes, inhabitants, and even an academic center.

"The network of trade routes through the Sahara has existed since the time of the pharaohs building the pyramids, and gradually developed after 300 AD, with large caravans passing through it every year."

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

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

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

[, so many? 】

[Specially, you can form a cavalry regiment! ] 】

[How much is this]

Such exaggerated figures staggered the audience.

However, they did not suspect 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 for water friends to stand up and ask rhetorically, and it is easy to expose their half-pulled butts.

"Even if such a large caravan still walks on thin ice during the journey, the vanguard must arrive at the next oasis several days in advance and then return to replenish fresh water for the home caravan to ensure a safe trip."

"Ibn Battuta's caravan of caravans had returned four days' worth of water from the oasis of Vallarta."

"Ibn Battuta himself fulfilled his wish in his later years, and he surpassed all the people of the world in terms of travel."

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

[Indeed, what is it called to break into the Sahara single-handedly, tactical backwards]

[Guotai Min'an opened the emperor in Fang Shen's live broadcast room! ] 】

【Big Guy!! 】

【Big guy V50 just open the dish】

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

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

By the time we arrived in Chad, we were already in the second half of the trip.

It's hard not to be thrilled that the so-called success of the Sahara crossing will add a legend to Bi Fang's resume.

[What do these caravans sell?]

[Yes, a camel with fifty kilograms is fifty tons of goods]

【Real Cow Batch】

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

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

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

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

"Starting in Darfur in Sudan, it travels north through a series of small, uninhabited oases, passing through the Harige Oasis in Egypt and ending at Assiut in central Egypt."

The road is probably better known as the Forty Days Road, where 80,000 slaves were driven by slave traders every year, and after a 40-day trek to the slave market in Assiut, only 20,000 were made alive. The 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 1,400 trade routes across the Sahara, and such large caravans were only disrupted by rail transport across the continent in modern times, but such traditional caravans still exist in Central Africa.

Once a year, they go to exchange salt from the outside world, but the scale is only a few dozen camels.

Traditional caravans still follow the Saharan trade routes, which began in the days of the pharaohs.

"If it's worse, the oases shrink, the population decreases, and the water sources along the road disappear, then the caravan can't go."

"People from outside can't get in, people from inside can't get out, and after a few generations, even the local people of Africa can't figure out where there are people on the other side of the desert, and that place has really become a place of legends."

"But this doesn't mean that there are no people in the desert or completely degenerate into primitive people, people are still tenacious, and there are national organizations, you can't say that it's not culture."

"This is the case of Dachi, which is located in a location known as the Great Sand Sea, which stretches westward from Gethara in Egypt and through the steppes we walked out of, and is the second largest continuous stretch of sand on the planet, after the Great Eastern Desert of Algeria."

"The wind has formed hundreds of kilometers of huge sand dunes in the big sand sea, and if it is easier to go north and south, you have to climb over one sand dune after another in the east and west directions.

The western slope of these dunes is gentle, while the eastern slope is steep and covered with quicksand, making it much easier to go east than west if you have to climb east-west.

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

Until the 19th century, the map of central Africa, especially the desert regions, was still mostly blank.

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

"The caravan could travel 300 kilometers in the desert with spare drinking water, which means that explorers at that time could go 150 kilometers from the known oasis, and if they didn't find a new water source, they had to turn around, and if they didn't encounter a new oasis, they would have to die in the sea of sand."

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

[No map, across the desert!] 】

"Coupled with the fact that North Africa was entrenched in a series of pirate states at the time, Europeans could not explore from the northern front. Therefore, the European explorers at that time could only rely on the old paper piles and the legends passed down by the mouths of the inhabitants of eastern Africa. ”

Completely enter the canyon and see wild camels.

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

Looking at the "dead wood" hidden in the black river, you can understand that there are crocodiles in the black river.

One of the few oases in the Sahara Desert where the Nile crocodile still exists, this is one of them.

If you get too close, you will most likely be attacked as prey.

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

Bi Fang also had to be careful.

"In 1873, the German explorer Friedrich Gerhard Rolfs received funding from the Governor of Egypt to venture west from Dakhla."

"The journey over the dunes was too difficult for the caravan to bear, and a sudden rainstorm about 190 kilometres south-west of Dakhla brought them a timely replenishment of fresh water, which Rolfs named Regenfeld."

"But due to the influence of quicksand, the camels were unable to climb the eastern slope of the dunes, so they turned north and followed the valley all the way to the Siwa oasis in northwestern Egypt, and the expedition ended in failure."

"At that time, in order to pretend to be Arabs, Rolfus even made his own circumcision."

It wasn't until five years later that Rolfs was commissioned by the German African Association to travel to Wadai, Chad, in central Africa, and this time he traveled south from the northern Libyan coast to Daci, becoming the first European to reach here.

Thanks to his own memory forest, such a little story is completely easy to come by, and even the year can be remembered clearly.

This kind of ability really shocked many fans.

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

[It seems to be Bifang's brain]

[Will eating Fang Shen's brain become smarter]

[You will only get prions]

[It sounds like this oasis is very good]

[Just look at the number of camels in it, there are crocodiles in the river!] 】

[The animal world is a regular and belongs to the only crocodile I can recognize]

"Every day, hundreds of camels rush to knee-deep water to drink and rest. Thousands of camel droppings 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 remaining Nile crocodile colonies in the Sahara."

The canyon is huge, and the oasis is too big to allow a group of Nile crocodiles to recuperate.

It's also big enough that the scene here is varied, and the audience even sees boiling water.

There are oases in the Sahara Desert that survive by volcanic hot springs, and there is also a section of the Daqi Oasis with hot springs.

Some distance away from the boiling water, fish began to live, and the inky black water barely saw in the daylight, and a school of tilapia juveniles followed their mothers closely.

Farther away, Bi Fang witnessed another hunt.

It was a small camel drinking water, which was bitten by a crocodile and dragged into the water, constantly struggling.

How could the crocodile let go of this delicious food, several besieged, the water surface rolled up, a few dead rolled, and the little camel was lifeless.

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

Everyone was horrified.

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