Nowadays, adventure-seekers make the eight-hour drive from Cairo in search of divine desert adventures like sandboarding, camel-camping, and 4x4 dune-bashing in the Great Sand Sea that surrounds ...

Nor did I realize the allure of dunes. Once I started flying in the desert ... safer to fly over than dark sand. Dark sand absorbs the heat, then releases it in big bubbles of hot air, like ...

Unlike hard rock, which can dissolve to form caverns and sinkholes, dunes are just big piles of sand formed ... masterwork The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, which is still routinely ...

We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...

One of those places can be found in Africa and it’s so big that it stretches across 11 ... a mix of landscapes that go far beyond endless sand dunes. In fact, only a quarter of the Sahara ...

A vast expanse of towering sand dunes? The occasional ... However, given how big the Sahara is, these oases are actually few and far between. The bulk of the desert instead consists of rocky ...

THERE'S a little-known beach in Italy that looks like the Sahara Desert. With huge golden sands, dunes and beautiful blue waters, it's one of the most beautiful places to go on holiday, and you'll ...

Sossusvlei is part of the Namib Desert, which is considered the world's oldest desert, dating back at least 55 million years.