White dunes meeting the Atlantic.
The cape medieval sailors called the point of no return.
Desert town and old religious centre.
Silk Road oasis ruins, UNESCO-listed.
Striped desert canyon walls.
Vast lagoon between desert and sea.
The "Eye of the Sahara" from the ground.
Crumbling stone caravan town on the old salt and gold routes.
Ancient Saharan town of desert libraries.
Surreal salt pans stretching to the horizon.
The "Louvre of the Desert": 4,500 rock paintings on quartzite hills sacred to the San for 100,000 years.
Saharan lakes that defy the desert, UNESCO-listed.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole — minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
Dead camelthorn trees, 900 years old, black against a white clay pan and the world’s tallest red dunes.
The "Manhattan of the Desert", UNESCO-listed.
Dramatic valley of mud-brick towns.
Kushite temples standing alone in the desert east of the Nile.
Africa’s largest canyon, 160 km long and 550 m deep, with a five-day hike along its floor.
Climb the world's tallest red dunes.
More pyramids than all of Egypt.
The "inland sea" where dunes meet water.
The "gateway to the Sahara": camel treks into the dunes and the December festival of horse races and Bedouin poetry.
Sacred mountain and pyramids, UNESCO-listed.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Otherworldly landscape of limestone chimneys.
Parthian desert city whose temples fused Greek, Roman and eastern styles.
Saudi Arabia's Nabataean rock tombs.
Lone 400-year-old tree in the desert.
One of the world's oldest cities.
Sheer desert escarpment near Riyadh.
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