seldja

Updated: June 15, 2025

It is good, after such visions of human infirmity and of death, to ride over the plain to the Seldja gorge, an astonishing freak of nature. I was twice within its towering walls of rock; the first time on horseback, accompanied by a young Tripolitan miner, and in the evening; yesterday again, in the torrid noon, afoot, alone.

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia