Thursday, November 26, 2009

Yachts in the Desert

In the Libyan Sahara, I spent an evening with some Europeans who run a small tourism business.  They operate gargantuan vehicles that look like an unholy combination of RVs and monster trucks.  The wheels on these beasts come up to my shoulder, easy.

The tour operators take these trucks... wherever the want.  Roads are completely unnecessary.  They traverse 300-meter dunes in the Murzuq Sand Sea like they are nothing.  Rivers, riverbeds, shrubs -- no problem.

And they do it in style.  Inside, the trucks have every imaginable comfort.  Think of a well appointed luxury hotel room, complete with satellite TV.

Hire one of these things and you get the works:  a driver, a personal assistant or two, expert local guides, and of course a gourmet chef flown in from the country of your choice.  And they'll handle every detail of the trip, including getting you there on a chartered flight and cutting through all the bureaucratic red tape.

I highly recommend that you track down one of these companies and take a few of your friends on the adventure of a lifetime.  It's only 4,000 euros a day!

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