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Libya

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Mostly empty Sahara along a Mediterranean shore, Libya holds some of the finest Roman ruins anywhere and a desert of painted rock and palm-ringed lakes, though years of conflict have kept it closed to the outside world.

The Coast (Tripoli & Leptis Magna)1 place

Leptis MagnaPoint · ●●●●○One of the most spectacular and complete Roman cities anywhere, a vast marble metropolis on the Libyan coast, lavished…

The Sahara (the Fezzan & Akakus)1 place

The Akakus & the FezzanNature · ●●●●○A desert range in Libya's deep southwest where the sand and rock rise into soaring natural arches and pinnacles, their…