Fly over the Nazca Lines, giant desert figures etched into Peru's coastal plain two thousand years ago
A circular Berber fortified granary of 114 cells, built in the twelfth century and still standing.
A German Art Nouveau town on the wild coast and the ghost town of Kolmanskop swallowed by sand.
Silk Road oasis ruins, UNESCO-listed.
Desert town and old religious centre.
The cape medieval sailors called the point of no return.
Ancient Saharan town of desert libraries.
Crumbling stone caravan town on the old salt and gold routes.
The "Louvre of the Desert": 4,500 rock paintings on quartzite hills sacred to the San for 100,000 years.
More pyramids than all of Egypt.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole — minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
Kushite temples standing alone in the desert east of the Nile.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
One of the world's oldest cities.
Parthian desert city whose temples fused Greek, Roman and eastern styles.
Ancient fortified towns of the Mzab.
Ancient desert city of windcatchers.
Rusting steam locomotives abandoned on the edge of the salt flats a century ago — a surreal stop on the way to the Salar.
Fortified mud-brick ksar on the old caravan route — a favourite film set for decades.
Tombs of the pharaohs near Luxor.
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