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 ...

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 ...

A vast expanse of towering sand dunes? The occasional ... However, given how big the Sahara is, these oases are actually few and far between. The bulk of the desert instead consists of rocky ...

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 ...

For many people, the most visible impact of Cyclone Alfred was the damage big waves and storm surge ... many beaches will naturally replenish. But sand dunes will take longer.

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

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 ...