15-Nov-2006 -- We stopped at 20N 6W (the border of Mali and Mauritania on some maps) on the way east from Atar in Mauritania to Bordj Mokhtar in southern Algeria, a 2000 km crossing of the so-called 'Saharan Empty Quarter' during which we saw no one and nothing much. As you can see from the photos, the Empty Quarter is aptly named - possibly the largest unbroken sand sheet in the Sahara.
From Bordj we continued east to Djanet on the Libyan border of Algeria, covering over half of the 5000-km width of the Sahara. We passed - or passed close to - several other Confluences during our crossing but for operational reasons it was not possible to hang about.