We were met at the Libyan border by Alhadi, the brother of Alarbi (our guide for Libya) who sorted all the necessary paperwork out and we were through in under one hour! We had read horror stories of crossing the Libyan border with mountains of paperwork, but this was our easiest crossing to date! We did not need to show driving licences, vehicle log books or our carnets!
Alhadi did not speak much English, so the day was a little confusing, not knowing what was going on all the time. All road signs are only in Arabic so we had no idea where we were at any one time! We stopped to fuel up, paying £0.08p per litre for diesel and £0.10p per litre for unleaded! By late afternoon we stopped at a fuel station outside a town and were told that we could camp behind it for the night. The fuel station manager spoke English and we found out we were at Jedu. We drove round the back of the station and set up camp. The fuel manager then produced our first Libyan meal – our first introduction to the hospitality of Libya.
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