Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds MKIII
Lens: Canon EF 16-35 mm. f/4.0L IS

As you can easily tell; I was completely taken in by the rock art. Although this is my second time here I was overwhelmed by the engravings again, more this time than on my first visit I´m sure. It might be the orange morning-light from the sun than had just surfaced above the horizon; saturating all the colors in a beautiful reddish-orange-yellow cast.

I´m surely no expert on rock-art; but it´s my understanding that these engravings are pretty old. And the evidence is that some of them show animals that have only lived here in a distant past when this was not a desert, but a tropical forest and plains filled with animals like giraffes, ostriches and antelopes. You will also see that there´s a different style, - some is made with solid lines, others made up by dots in the lava-rock. A few is nearly washed out by now, as evidence of the endless sandblasting that mother nature performs here on this hill on windy days.

It´s sad to see that in the past three years since I first was here the rock-art have been tempered with and someone unfortunate has made some graffiti engravings amongst the original rock-art; and it fills my heart with sadness. What individual would want to damage this lovely gift from our forefathers? It´s beyond me to understand this; do they simply not know the value of this, - or simply just don´t appreciate it? Luckily this place is of the beaten track; and few locals and tourist come here into this desolated part of the desert.

But if rock-art and engravings are not for you, you might want to jump to the bottom of this page for a few landscape photographs.