Surreal salt pans stretching to the horizon.
Saharan lakes that defy the desert, UNESCO-listed.
Sacred mountain and pyramids, UNESCO-listed.
Africa’s largest canyon, 160 km long and 550 m deep, with a five-day hike along its floor.
Dramatic valley of mud-brick towns.
Wildlife gathered around desert waterholes.
Dead camelthorn trees, 900 years old, black against a white clay pan and the world’s tallest red dunes.
The "inland sea" where dunes meet water.
Saharan rock art and sand seas.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Climb the world's tallest red dunes.
More pyramids than all of Egypt.
The "gateway to the Sahara": camel treks into the dunes and the December festival of horse races and Bedouin poetry.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole — minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
Camp among rolling desert dunes.
Kushite temples standing alone in the desert east of the Nile.
The "Manhattan of the Desert", UNESCO-listed.
Fog-bound desert shore of shipwrecks, seal colonies and dunes dropping into the Atlantic.
Young fissure volcano between spreading tectonic rifts.
Lone 400-year-old tree in the desert.
Forested highlands rising green out of the Djiboutian desert.
One of the world's oldest cities.
Otherworldly landscape of limestone chimneys.
Sheer desert escarpment near Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia's Nabataean rock tombs.
Parthian desert city whose temples fused Greek, Roman and eastern styles.
Neon sulphur pools, salt flats 125 m below sea level and the Erta Ale lava lake — the hottest inhabited place on Earth.
Saharan plateau of prehistoric rock art.
Shifting Sahara-like dunes on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast.
Ancient fortified towns of the Mzab.
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