The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, ... flat salt terrains, and imposing mountains.

Spend a night in the Sahara Desert and visit the ancient cities of Marrakech and Fez on a 10-day journey to Morocco. The Naya Traveler tour will be led by its founder, Sarah Casewit, a 20-year ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Photo Credit: IERRE VERDY/AFP/Getty Images Must-See Sites. The Sahara Desert covers 12 countries in northern Africa, giving you more than 3.6 million square miles to explore.

Stretching from Egypt to Morocco, the Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world, ... To reach Erg Chebbi, one has to drive for two days from Marrakech through mountains and desert, ...

The name Sahara itself comes from the Arabic word for desert. The English word desert comes from the Latin desertum, denoting a place that is forsaken, uninhabited or without people.In fact, the ...

SNOW falls in the SAHARA: Ice blankets the dunes in rare desert phenomenon after temperatures plummeted overnight. Snow fell in the Saharan town of Ain Sefra in Algeria for the fifth time in 42 ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with ...

The mystical mountains at the heart of the Sahara on x (opens in a new window) ... “I love this desert,” De Foucauld wrote in a letter to his sister, in 1906.

Photo Credit: IERRE VERDY/AFP/Getty Images Must-See Sites. The Sahara Desert covers 12 countries in northern Africa, giving you more than 3.6 million square miles to explore.