An adobe oasis in the driest desert on Earth: geysers, salt flats, flamingos and the clearest night sky.
Flamingos on the lagoon, kayaking with seals at Pelican Point and the dunes of Sandwich Harbour.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the M’zab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
Boats to the Ballestas islands of sea lions and penguins, and the desert reserve next door.
Hegra, the Nabataean tombs of the southern Petra, and the Elephant Rock in a desert of sandstone.
Coral reefs on the Red Sea, the Underwater Observatory and the desert of Timna, at Israel's southern tip.
The Garden City oasis, camel market and Jebel Hafeet, the UAE's only UNESCO site.
A bazaar city on the edge of the Lut desert, with the Ganjali Khan bathhouse and the Rayen citadel nearby.
Saguaro cacti in the Desert Botanical Garden and Camelback Mountain at dawn, before the heat.
A golden sandstone fort still lived in, and camel safaris into the Thar desert dunes.
The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.
Striped desert canyon walls.
Silk Road oasis ruins, UNESCO-listed.
A 70-metre crater of natural gas that has burned since 1971 — camp beside the "Door to Hell" at night.
The cape medieval sailors called the point of no return.
White dunes meeting the Atlantic.
Desert town and old religious centre.
Vast lagoon between desert and sea.
Escarpment forest above the desert.
Desert massif of oases and Tuareg life.
Cross one of the Sahara's emptiest expanses.
Ancient Saharan town of desert libraries.
The "Eye of the Sahara" from the ground.
Ride one of the world's longest trains.
Crumbling stone caravan town on the old salt and gold routes.
Dunes, canyons and dinosaur fossils.
Sandstone arches and rock art in the Sahara.
Hidden desert waterhole in the Ennedi where camel caravans meet Nile crocodiles.
The "Louvre of the Desert": 4,500 rock paintings on quartzite hills sacred to the San for 100,000 years.
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