Surreal salt pans stretching to the horizon.
Salt pans inside an extinct volcano on Sal, where the water is so dense you float as in the Dead Sea.
Hidden desert waterhole in the Ennedi where camel caravans meet Nile crocodiles.
Saharan lakes that defy the desert, UNESCO-listed.
Red sandstone amphitheatres carved into the coastal plateau north of Pointe-Noire.
Swim at night in a lagoon near Falmouth where bioluminescent plankton light up every stroke.
Fog-bound desert shore of shipwrecks, seal colonies and dunes dropping into the Atlantic.
Soviet-era stations of chandeliers, mosaics and marble โ photographed legally only since 2018.
Vivid 5,000-year-old cave paintings.
Dead camelthorn trees, 900 years old, black against a white clay pan and the worldโs tallest red dunes.
Rope bridge swaying 30 m above the sea to a tiny fishing island.
Off-grid dune village of sea lions.
The world's largest wine cellar.
Paez Vilaro's white cliffside villa.
Eerie avenue of ancient beech trees.
The "inland sea" where dunes meet water.
Vast underground wine "streets".
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
Soak in a naturally warm pool on an uninhabited island, icebergs drifting past.
Island of alien dragon-blood trees.
The "Manhattan of the Desert", UNESCO-listed.
One of the few waterfalls on Earth that pours straight into the ocean.
Swim with the wild pigs of Big Major Cay.
Otherworldly landscape of limestone chimneys.
Lone 400-year-old tree in the desert.
Waterfall dropping through three natural bridges into a cave shaft.
The world's oldest and largest spaceport.
Submerged sunken forest in a turquoise lake.
"Venice of Africa" โ a whole town on stilts in Lake Nokoue.
Young fissure volcano between spreading tectonic rifts.
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