Visit Yazd

Fortified mud-brick ksar on the old caravan route — a favourite film set for decades.

Ancient fortified towns of the Mzab.

Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".

A whole town of trulli — conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun

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

Parthian desert city whose temples fused Greek, Roman and eastern styles.