Visit Chinguetti

Crumbling stone caravan town on the old salt and gold routes.

Ancient fortified towns of the Mzab.

A walled Silk Road city preserved whole — minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.

Remote 65-metre brick minaret, alone in a river gorge since the 12th century.

Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.

Pyramidal earthen tomb of the Songhai emperor, bristling with wooden stakes.

Ancient city of the Patriarchs.

Tombs of the pharaohs near Luxor.