This is an
informed but personal interpretation.
The Libyan Sahara won't be a tourist destination for a while yet, and parts of north Niger as well as Mali are risky.
For kidnappings in the Sahara, click this.
For a map of Med ferries to Morocco click this.
Wherever possible
use official border crossings, marked with the black
diamond or expect the consequences outlined below
Black diamonds shown
possible two-way desert border crossings. Many other border
crossings exist or are used, but are closed to non-Africans
or tourists without good connections.
Purple
lines show the three
main trans-Sahara routes, but not all are useable at the moment. You will notice there are far fewer than you would expect over such a vast area. Red lines show
borders which cannot be crossed legitimately
(some may be mined and you may be arrested or run into
bandits/smugglers/rebels/terrorists). Green
border lines can, up to a
point be crossed as long as you check into the nearest
immigration point. Some pass through extremely remote outlaw areas and
you still may get arrested or robbed. As you can
see, besides Libya it's principally northern
Mali and Niger - not a place where any tourists go to at the moment.
