This 7-day sample itinerary is a well-rounded introduction to western Libya, moving from the souks and Roman monuments of Tripoli to the Berber heartland of Jebel Nafusa and the two great ancient cities of the coast. It suits travellers who want history, architecture and living culture in a single week.
In the Nafusa Mountains, a landscape of barren peaks and rocky cliffs that is home to Libya’s Berber (Amazigh) community, you will discover fortified granaries and abandoned stone villages, spend a night in Yefren and return to Tripoli by a different mountain route. The journey then turns to the coast for two full days of archaeology.
Highlights
- Tripoli’s 19th-century Ottoman Clock Tower, the souks of the old medina, the Arch of Marcus Aurelius (163 AD) and Martyrs’ Square
- Qasr al-Hajj, an unusual round fortified granary
- The abandoned stone village of Tormisa and the hillside Berber community of Kabaw with its granary
- Nalut and its exceptional granary on the edge of the mountain, overlooking the plains
- Leptis Magna, one of the greatest ancient sites in the world
- Sabratha, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with its theatre dating back to 175 AD and its amphitheatre for up to 10,000 spectators