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A Whole View of Africa from the Loo | Isabella Tree | Kenya, Coastal Kenya, Tana Delta

As mad as it may seem to build an entire resort atop a 100ft sand dune, that lunacy fits right in with the lunacy of its surroundings

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Back in Vegas | Susan Miles | United States, Nevada, Las Vegas

With miles and miles of desert urban sprawl, it is not surprising to hear that the population has doubled from 1 to 2 million since last I last hit town

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Blazing Saddles: Horseback Adventure Across the Namib Desert | Martin Li | Namibia, Namib Desert, Namib Desert

“Go!” screams Waldi as our horses charge at full gallop across the Rooisand dunes at the edge of the Namib Desert. Grassy tufts, lone acacia trees and occasionally my life flash before me in a furious blur of red sand as we hurtle towards our night camp.

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Desert Storm | Mark Eveleigh | Morocco, Southern Morocco, Sahara

For two days we had been driving towards the desert and then suddenly, one sunny afternoon in a Moroccan market town, the desert came to us

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Draa Valley Drive | Jim Keeble | Morocco, Southern Morocco, Ouarzazate

It’s probably my favourite drive in the world. You begin in scorched Ouarzazate in southern Morocco, more accessible than it sounds and full of tour buses, and end in the first sands of the Sahara

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Nullabor | Andrew Bain | Australia, South Australia, Nullabar

Australia’s Nullarbor plain is a place of superlatives: the world’s largest and driest block of limestone; the longest unbroken line of sea cliffs in the country; the longest straight piece of road in the world

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The Utah Desert | James Henderson | United States, Utah, Canyonlands

A friend once put to me that the only significant thing in travel was human contact. Travelling was about changing the perspective, and only human interaction could do that

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Walking in the High Atlas | John Warburton-Lee | Morocco, Marrakech, Marrakech

Great sweeping ridges of sand snaked up to star-shaped, wind-blown summits in perfect crescents. With each vista the dunes seemed to loom larger and more graceful

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