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 ...

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 ...

Wearing a helmet and strapped securely into his four-wheel-drive, Abdelilah al-Rabea tore off across the Saudi desert ... of oil on the sand and track marks scarring the dunes.

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