The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
The door of the desert and the film studios of Gladiator and Game of Thrones, next to the Ait Benhaddou kasbah.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the M’zab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
Hegra, the Nabataean tombs of the southern Petra, and the Elephant Rock in a desert of sandstone.
The Garden City oasis, camel market and Jebel Hafeet, the UAE's only UNESCO site.
Silk Road oasis ruins, UNESCO-listed.
Desert massif of oases and Tuareg life.
Cross one of the Sahara's emptiest expanses.
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.
Sandstone arches and rock art in the Sahara.
Saharan lakes that defy the desert, UNESCO-listed.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Sacred mountain and pyramids, UNESCO-listed.
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.
More pyramids than all of Egypt.
The "Manhattan of the Desert", UNESCO-listed.
Saharan rock art and sand seas.
Parthian desert city whose temples fused Greek, Roman and eastern styles.
Saudi Arabia's Nabataean rock tombs.
Saharan plateau of prehistoric rock art.
Ancient fortified towns of the Mzab.
Ancient desert city of windcatchers.
Wind-carved kalut ridges in one of the hottest places ever measured on Earth.
Tombs of the pharaohs near Luxor.
Fly over the Nazca Lines, giant desert figures etched into Peru's coastal plain two thousand years ago
Fortified mud-brick ksar on the old caravan route — a favourite film set for decades.
Sacred red monolith at the desert heart.
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