Submerged Roman City Discovered Off The Coast of Cyrenaica, Eastern Libya:

 Archaeologists have discovered what appears to be an ancient, 2nd-century AD, sunken Roman city, just off the coast of Cyrenaica, between the towns of Derna and Bomba, near Tobruk, in Eastern Libya. The discovery was made by members of the project ArCoLibia (Archeology Coast of Libya), in a survey off the Libyan coast. While searching for wrecks, the researchers found walls, tombs, buildings and roads between one and three meters beneath the water. http://www.archart.it/rivista-archeologia/tag/arcolibia/. 

طرابلس : أسفرت أعمال تنقيبية أجراها علماء أثار من إيطاليا عن العثور علي مدينة تحت سطح الأرض تعود إلى العصر الرومانى، على ساحل برقة الشرقى فى ليبيا, وتقع بين مدينتى درنة وبومبا، بالقرب من طبرق.
http://www.moheet.com/show_news.aspx?nid=325398&pg=13

New Libyan Visa Law:

In a recent move (02/08/2009), the Libyan People's Committee has endorsed a new visa law, primarily designed to encourage tourism and attract more tourists into the country. The new law has cancelled the June law and it is now possible to obtain a Libyan visa on arrival, either on the border or at the airport, with the option to apply at embassies still available. Please visit www.temehu.com/news-Libya.htm for further details.

Let us hope this time this law is permanent :)

Keep Libya Clean Campaign

Refuse Refuse

Reject Rubbish is the slogan Temehu.com has chosen to represent its online campaign to Keep Libya Clean.

Please help and visit our campaign page at www.temehu.com

Traditionally, Libyan women keep their houses spotlessly clean and tidy before visitors arrive. Ask your mum and she will gently tell you that Libya is your sacred home!

Libya until recently was as isolated from the outside world as Acacus still is today. But the side effects of any influx of wealth and progressive economical growth would naturally include litter, neglect and fatigue. Those eager to digest and disregard neat order for clutter and litter, be ware: litter, rubbish, refuse and garbage are piling up even in the most sacred archaeological sites of Libya.
http://www.temehu.com/rubbish-in-libya.htm

This is a real photo of a group of European tourists in the Libyan Sahara, leaving their rubbish behind after camping overnight. We have covered the plate numbers and other identifiers bright green to keep the identity of the "perpetrators" private and safe with us. Only us and them know this secret.

This Western European group of tourists were habitually leaving their rubbish behind, wherever they camp. When one of our Libyan tour guides kindly pointed out to them that they needed to carry their bags with them to the nearest rubbish dump, they took no notice of him. When the guide noticed they do this on a regular basis, he waited one day until they all got in their cars and drove away, and took his camera to produce the above live shot; capturing the perpetrators in action running away from the crime-scene, leaving the evidence behind: (two green bags, one blue bag, one white bag, one black bag, yellow plastic, and a solitary can).

We are not running a name and shame campaign.
We hope those tourists find this page as it might be of comfort to them
to know that their guide had secretly took all that rubbish and disposed of it at the nearest allocated spot.

Please visit our campaign page at www.temehu.com for unique photos and notes about the issue.
Please link to this page and help spread the message across the web. Our country needs your help.

New Tourist Visa Law: June 2009: visas issued at Libyan embassies:

New Tourist Visa Law: June 2009:

From the 1st of June 2009 all tourist visas must be obtained from the Libyan embassy, either in the country of origin or in any country that hosts a Libyan embassy.

The procedure however has not changed (see http://www.temehu.com/news-Libya.htm for details). The embassy will also require visitors to provide other documents, like bank statements and travel insurance. Tourists who find these measures unnecessary can share their disappointment with all Libyans who have been through it all before: Libyans wishing to obtain a European visa, for example, need to provide a whole folder of documents including bank statements, letter of invitation or host, return flight tickets, money, passport copies, addresses, etc., in order to obtain a visa.