The Green Mountains - Libya

There are two natural conditions that have been most attractive to travellers to Libya, the vast desert and its oases, and the Akhdar Mountains, which is Arabic for "Green Mountains". The name is just, and this is one of the very few areas which has for Westerners a pleasant summer climate. In ancient times, the Akhdar Mountains became the corn chamber for old Greek, therefore all the many Greek colonies here. During the Italian colonisation, it was a farming region, and this period has left many Italian style houses all around the mountain area. The scenery of this region comes as a great surprise to most visitors, few knew of this pearl before coming here. The nature shifts between soft and smooth mountain landscape, occasionally cut by a gorge or some wild rock.