"Jalu, the place of the total solar eclipse" Top 5 Page for this destination Libya Off The Beaten Path Tip by sachara

Why to visit the area of Jalu deep in the desert at an about 6 hours ride from Benghazi ? It's a total flat area with almost nothing to see. At the 29th march in 2006 we went there and we were not alone. The heartline of the total solar eclipse was about 80 km south of Jalu and thousands of people came here to watch.

We arrived in Jalu in the late afternoon and waited in a small bar close to the fuel station for our travelagent to bring us to the campsite in the desert at a tomato farm, not far from the heartline.
The next day we had a short drive to the heartline to experience a total solar eclipse of about 4 minutes. It was an incredible and magical experience.