Inspiring Travel Writing About Deserts: Page 4 of 6

"“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..."

"In the Sinai, the only comforting view is up. Here, you do what you can to elevate yourself, to escape this dry and lithoic landscape."

"Midnight had come and gone by the time we reached the deserted city of Old Dongola. We drove through sand which rose in drifts against the sides of collapsed buildings."

"It is the vast bowl of sky overhead, burnished by day, stippled by night; it is the space, emphasised by the wind, punctuated by the silence"