Samīr Lāmā Rock - Samīr-Lāmā-Felsen

Samīr Lāmā rock
Samīr Lāmā rock · ‏صخرة سمير لاما‎
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Samīr Lāmā rock

The Samir Lama Rock (English: Samir Lama skirt, Arabic:صخرة سمير لاما‎, Ṣaǧrat Samīr Lāmā) is a sand-lime rock about 400 kilometers west of the Nile, about 140 kilometers south-southwest of Courage and 50 kilometers west of the trunk road to New Valley Irrigation Project in the egyptianNew valley. The rock is named after the Egyptian actor and desert explorer Samīr Lāmā (1931-2004). Occasionally the rock is also called Sugar Loaf designated. However, this name refers to a similar group of rocks about 2.5 kilometers southwest of the Samīr-Lāmā rock.

getting there

Visiting the rock is usually part of a desert excursion to the Gilf Kebir National Park.

Of Courage Coming from, one drives about 70 kilometers south along the trunk road to New Valley Irrigation Project and then turn off the road into the desert. An all-terrain four-wheel drive vehicle is required to travel through the desert. After another 80 kilometers you will reach the 1 Samīr Lāmā rock(24 ° 26 ′ 27 ″ N.28 ° 32 '55 "E). A short distance of 2.5 kilometers in a south-westerly direction leads to the rock group 2 Sugar Loaf(24 ° 25 ′ 25 ″ N.28 ° 32 '8 "E).

There are local drivers and vehicles e.g. in the depressions ed-Dāchla or el-Baḥrīya.

A permit from the Egyptian military is required to continue to the national park. During the trip you will be accompanied by armed police officers and a military officer. For trips to the Gilf Kebir there is a separate safari department in Mū,, which also provides the necessary police escort and their vehicles. The mandatory service is of course chargeable.

Tourist Attractions

Both the Samīr Lāmā rock as well as Sugar Loaf (English for Sugar Loaf) are sand-lime rock groups that rise from the surrounding sandy desert. The almost white sandstone is very porous and can be rubbed off very easily. Its properties resemble small pieces of sugar.

The rocks were formed by nature. The small rock in the south of the Samīr Lāmā rock group has the shape of a large rock gate.

The floor also deserves attention. The almost white subsurface is broken through in several places by bunch sandstone, the color of which indicates inclusions of iron-containing minerals. Iron disulfide (FeS2) Tubers.

There are a lot of dragonflies in the rock area.

On the Samīr Lāmā rock there is also a memorial plaque for the name-giving Samīr Lāmā (1931-2004), which was placed here in 2005. It says in English:

Rock gate in the small Samīr-Lāmā rock
Memorial plaque for Samīr Lāmā
Sandstone on the ground
Ferrous tuber
In memory of
Samir Lama
(1931–2004),
the distinguished explorer to whom we are
indebted for much of our knowledge
Acknowledged by Zarzora Expedition

The text reads in German:

In memory of
Samir Lama
(1931–2004)
the outstanding discoverer we
are committed to much in our knowledge
in recognition by Zarzora expedition (an Egyptian desert travel company)

Samīr Lāmā (Arabic:سمير لاما) Was born in 1931 as the son of the Lebanese filmmaker Badr Lāmā (1907–1947)[1] born. At a young age he accompanied his father on the lion hunt. In 1946, when he was 15, he visited the for the first time Gilf Kebir Plateau. He later discovered Africa together with the French explorer Théodore Monod (1902–2000) named after him the Lama-Monod-Pass in the northwest of the plateau.[2] In the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in a number of Egyptian entertainment films.[3] He repeatedly visited the desert with his German wife Waltraud and had had his own travel agency in Frankfurt am Main since the 1970s. He died in January 2004. With almost six decades of experience, he amassed an immense knowledge of the Gilf Kebir, from which his successors can still draw today.

There is a second monument to Samīr Lāmā on the Abu-Ras plateau.

kitchen

The rock is also often used as a picnic area. Food and drinks must be brought along. Rubbish must be taken with you and must not be left lying around.

There are restaurants again in about 150 kilometers away Courage.

accommodation

Tents must be brought along for the overnight stay.

trips

On the way to Gilf Kebir National Park As a rule, one also visits the 90 kilometers to the west Abū Ballāṣ rock, at the foot of which a jug warehouse on the way to the Gebel el-ʿUweināt or into the oasis Kufra was created.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Badr Lama, Alex Cinema, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Badr Lama, Arabic Wikipedia.
  2. ↑Vivian, Cassandra: The Western Desert of Egypt: an explorer’s handbook. Cairo: The American University at Cairo Press, 2008, ISBN 978-977-416-090-5 , P. 433 (in English).
  3. ↑سمير لاما, elcinema.com.
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