zondag 12 oktober 2008
the English patient
In 1996 the movie "The English Patient" raised public interest, if not awareness, of the Libyan desert, and the person of Almásy. While the plot of the movie was pure fiction, based on a novel, certain characters and scenes were based on real people and places. The "cave of swimmers" does exist, at Wadi Sora in the western Gilf Kebir, and László Almásy was a living person, who did add considerably to our knowledge of the Libyan Desert.
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The Cave of the Swimmers is down in Gilf Kebir - but it is nothing like the cave shown in the English Patient. That was definitely a work of fiction. I have been there. The once beautiful paintings are almost gone, and the cave is simply a rounded shelter, not a great deep cleft.
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