Oasis

After our camel meal and 6 more days of traveling we finally reached an oases. There was a town on this oases though by the name of Ghadames. We were forced to pay an exorbitant amount of gold to be allowed to use their water source.It was worth it though because without it we probably wouldn’t have made it another day. After our bout of extreme dehydration we all decided to stay at the town for a few days and relax. We were definitely not in traveling shape. Luckily both Mark and Ibn had medical experience and were able to help keep us from dying and get back in shape. The town was almost entirely populated by Arabs who had recently conquered and built it. We enjoyed our time in the town and left it feeling great and rejuvenated. The trip to Tripoli was hard because we had to avoid two sandstorms that nearly blinded us. Also another one of our camels perished on the way and we had to take turns riding the last two. We were just glad that we finally made it to the gates of the greatest African city on the Mediterranean Sea.