Nowadays, adventure-seekers make the eight-hour drive from Cairo in search of divine desert adventures like sandboarding, camel-camping, and 4x4 dune-bashing in the Great Sand Sea that surrounds ...

Nor did I realize the allure of dunes. Once I started flying in the desert ... safer to fly over than dark sand. Dark sand absorbs the heat, then releases it in big bubbles of hot air, like ...

Unlike hard rock, which can dissolve to form caverns and sinkholes, dunes are just big piles of sand formed ... masterwork The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, which is still routinely ...

We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...

THERE'S a little-known beach in Italy that looks like the Sahara Desert. With huge golden sands, dunes and beautiful blue waters, it's one of the most beautiful places to go on holiday, and you'll ...

Dune bashing is a popular pastime in Saudi Arabia ... Abdelilah al-Rabea tore off across the Saudi desert, kicking up clouds of sand as a crowd of hundreds cheered him on. Every year through the end ...

Sossusvlei is part of the Namib Desert, which is considered the world's oldest desert, dating back at least 55 million years.