The Ennedi Natural Arches

The Ennedi plateau in Chad has hundred of natural arches, having been documented only few of them. Here I will show some of them.

The Aloba Arch is one of the most awesome archs in the world. Can you see the person standing just in front of the arch? This arch has a span of approximately 250 feet and a height of nearly 400 feet.

This is the Anoa arch. The largest of its three openings is 55 feet high.

Dentelles Arches

The Djoula Oued Arch has a height of 107 feet and a span of 46 feet.

Elephant Arch has a height of 75 feet and a span of 59 feet. The smaller opening in the upper left zone is, certainly, the eye of the elephant.

Another Elephant Arch, with a height of 94 feet and a span of 15 feet.

The Eye Of Tokou has a height of 66 feet and a span of 45 feet.

Five Arch Rock, certainly, a rock with five openings.Depicted in the photo is the largest spawn, which measures 45 feet of height and 67 feet of span.

Little Aloba Arch, with a height of 128 feet and a span of 30 feet.

Mask rock, with a left opening measuring 57 feet of height and 36 feet of span, and the right opening measuring 50 feet of height and 27 feet of spawn.

This unnamed arch is little: 16 feet high and 7 feet span.

This unnamed arch has a height of 72 feet and a spawn of 35 feet.

Unnamed arch with a height of 35 feet and a span of 33 feet.

Another unnamed arch...

Unnamed arch with a height of 67 feet and a span of 39 feet.

This unnamed arch shows two openings on this photo; the one in the foreground with 54 feet high and the one in the background with 26 feet high.

This unnamed arch has a height of 24 feet and a spawn of 32 feet.

Unnamed arch with a height of 21 feet.

Another unnamed arch...

And nother unnamed arch...

And... guess what? another unnamed arch...

Here an unnamed double arch, having the larger opening a height of 42 feet.

And finally... another unnamed arch. The opening is not much thing, but the rock is really a good piece of rock...