About Us See also: "the first ten years" a page made to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the website launch

This website is run by András Zboray, a native of Budapest, Hungary. András made his first desert ventures at the age of 16 while living in Egypt, visiting Kharga & Dakhla oases in the Western Desert of Egypt with some friends. A year later he made a solo trip to northern Sudan. Since then his interest in travel and archaeology has taken him to over 70 countries on all continents, yet his main addiction remains the Sahara, where he began a serious study of the prehistoric rock art. The first major Sahara trip was to the Tassili N'Ajjer in southern Algeria in 1991 (accompanied by his wife Magdi, a partner on all later trips), which was repeated in 1993.

In 1987, after a request by Hungarian Television to organise an expedition along the footsteps of Almásy, we ventured into the Great Sand Sea in Egypt. The following year we succeeded in reaching our longtime goal, Jebel Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir.

Based on the success of these trips, we established this website in 1999 to organise expeditions to the Western Desert of Egypt. Since then we made over twenty expeditions to Jebel Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir region from both Egypt and Libya, and this website grew to be the most important online resource on the Libyan Desert (Eastern Sahara). There are ongoing plans for further expeditions to both Egypt and Libya.

Having an economics and business degree, András spent most of his "normal life" in the airline industry with some side ventures into the dotcom business. However Saharan rock art and exploration has become more than just a hobby, András is the author of numerous articles on rock art of the Gilf / Uweinat region (mainly in Sahara, an international journal dedicated to the prehistory and history of the Sahara). He is also the author of the "Saharan Rock Art", "Tassili N'Ajjer" and "Egypt" chapters of Chris Scott's Sahara Overland, the only up-to date guide to the whole saharan region. In 2005 András completed the DVD publication "Rock Art of the Libyan Desert", the result of an ongoing documentation project of all known rock art sites in the central Libyan Desert. The DVD is a complete illustrated catalogue and bibliography of all sites known in the central Libyan Desert (several hundred of which were discovered on our own expeditions), with over five hundred sites and more than ten thousand photographs. An expanded second edition is in the works, expected for release in the second half of 2009. András is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a regular attendant of conferences on Saharan prehistory and rock art.

Magdi also has a background in economics, with a professional career in banking and financial consulting. On our expeditions we are increasingly accompanied by our daughters Dóra (12) and Viki (10)

Following a rapid rise in interest, Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions Ltd. was incorporated as a UK limited liability company in 2004, to provide a proper legal and corporate framework for running the expeditions.

Contacts:

Mailing Address	Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions Ltd.
	Denevér u. 48/D
	H-1121 Budapest
	Hungary
Telephone	+36-1-2744290
Fax	+36-1-3955443
Email	andras@fjexpeditions.com
	magdi@fjexpeditions.com