Dawn light at Colomb-Bechar Crpuscule Colomb-Bchar

Colomb-Bechar, to the west of Algeria, and on the edge of the Sahara desert, was the point of departure of the second mission Citron, la Croisire Noire. On the 28th October 1924, the eight vehicles left for the Niger."The day comes up, little by little invading the sky against which stands out the silhouette of the arid mountains, whose mass encloses Colomb-Bechar. A pink gleam spreads over the great immobile palm trees of the oasis", wrote Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (La Croisire Noire, Paris, Librairie Plon, 1927, p.5).