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RE: Chad: 3000km in the Sahara - netllama - 2023-01-12
(2023-01-12, 02:08 PM)DeathValleyDazed Wrote: Placing netllama's adventure travels in Chad in perspective and scale I photoshopped a combination of his GPX map and a same scale map of Death Valley National Park Boundaries. As you can see netllama "ran circles" around the largest national park in the continental USA. For those too lazy to grab your reading glasses Death Valley is the small rust brown colored "smudge" within the circle of netllamas stops in central Chad.
http://salamandersociety.com/deathvalley/DEVA-Chad-scale.png
That's a cool size comparison you created there.
Chad is about 3x the size of all of California. Its huge, and is the 21st largest country. Then again, most of the Sahara countries are massively huge (Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Mauritania, Niger, Libya).
RE: Chad: 3000km in the Sahara - MojaveGeek - 2023-01-12
Nice graphic, DVD.
ALL of Africa is huge. We grew up with and spend too much time looking at Mercator projections, which make things appear bigger as you move away from the equator. I traveled from Morocco to Algeria, whence across the desert to Nigeria, then through the jungle to Kenya, and wow, it takes forever
RE: Chad: 3000km in the Sahara - DeathValleyDazed - 2023-01-13
(2023-01-12, 09:18 PM)netllama Wrote: Chad is about 3x the size of all of California. Its huge, and is the 21st largest country. Then again, most of the Sahara countries are massively huge (Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Mauritania, Niger, Libya).
I did not realize how large Chad was until scaling the map image and had to double check just to make sure. I'm humbled being a Death Valley fan and enjoying the wide open spaces of the park that I'll never complete exploring keeping in mind its size compared to other desert regions including Chad and other remote locations that you've explored. And you only covered a small percentage of what's out there in Chad, let along the rest of our lovely planet.
I reviewed all of your amazing photos which is the closest I'll get to grasping the expansive landscapes of our continents. Thanks for traveling and sharing your adventures with folks like me! And thanks to Mojave Geek for adding color commentary along the way.
RE: Chad: 3000km in the Sahara - Bluegreen kayak - 2023-01-16
Ostriches! Photo 305 has ostriches! I don't remember you mentioning them.
RE: Chad: 3000km in the Sahara - netllama - 2023-01-16
Yep, saw random ostriches one day. Honestly, it wasn't all that exciting for me. I've been to too many other parts of Africa that have tons of ostriches. The Chadian ones seemed lost & confused.