Discover the top 10 countries with the largest desert areas in the world. Explore fascinating facts about deserts like the ...

Brave and stubborn, the British explorer Alexander Gordon Laing had only two obsessions: to see his wife Emma again and to reach the Niger Basin before the French. He got married two days before his ...

The Sahara Desert, the world's largest hot desert, offers a unique landscape filled with adventure opportunities ...

The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert. It spans 11 countries in northern Africa: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.

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.

Animals can adapt to any environment – even a sandy, arid landscape like the Sahara Desert. The vast stretches of sand dunes, rare oases, and rugged mountains are home to fennec foxes, scorpions ...

It verges on cliché to think of the Sahara as numinous, a place of deep contemplation and spiritual refuge. But in Hoggar, I realised that evening, the totemic land makes that tendency irresistible.

The town, which is surrounded by the Atlas Mountains, is located around 3,280 feet above sea level, according to the report. Despite the altitude, it is extremely rare to see snow there.

Let it be recorded that my first act in the Sahara Desert was to step into a puddle of mud. It happened during a stopover at the airport in In Salah, an oasis town in central Algeria. Seeking ...

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.