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English: White Desert is a site of cliffs, dunes and large white chalk rock formations, created through erosion by wind and sand. White Desert, part of Saharan Libyan Desert, some 30 km to the east of Al-Farafra, Egypt.
White Desert is a site of cliffs, dunes and large white chalk rock formations, created through erosion by wind and sand. White Desert, part of Saharan Libyan Desert, some 30 km to the east of Al-Farafra, Egypt.
Sahara el Beyda, the White Desert Protected Area, is a national park in Egypt, first established as a protected area in 2002. It is located in the Farafra depression, 45 km (28 mi) north of the town of Qasr Al Farafra. Part of the park is in the Farafra Oasis (New Valley Governorate). [1]
The Black Desert (الصحراء السوداء) is a region of volcano-shaped and widely spaced mounds, distributed along about 30 km (19 mi) in the Western Desert between the White Desert in the south and the Bahariya Oasis in the north. Most of its mounds are capped by basalt sills, giving them the characteristic black color.
Deserts of Egypt, barren areas of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Deserts of Egypt .
The Great Sand Sea stretches about 650 km (400 mi) from north to south and 300 km (190 mi) from east to west. On satellite images, this desert shows a pattern of long sand ridges running in a roughly north-south direction. However, despite the apparent uniformity, the Great Sand Sea has two large areas with different types of megadunes. [1]
This time, foreign sightseers angered Namibian authorities after posing naked atop the legendary Big Daddy Dune in the Namib Desert, as seen in photos circulating on social media.
The Cave of Swimmers is a rock shelter with ancient rock art in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert section of the Sahara. It is located in the New Valley Governorate of southwest Egypt , near the border with Libya .