The White Desert, Egypt

'There and deserts and there are deserts', the explorer Ralph Bagnold famously said. But the Western Desert, a vast expanse that starts at the western banks of the Nile and continues well into Libya, is the desert of deserts. Covering a total of 2.8 million sq km and bordered by Libya in the west, Sudan in the south and the Mediterranean in the north, it is a world of desolation and beauty -- and one of the few places in Egypt where you can go for days at a time without seeing a soul. Five isolated but thriving oases dot this otherwise uninhabited expanse: Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Bahariyya, and to the north-west of these, Siwa.      (--from Lonely Planet, Egypt).

The White Desert	Desertscape	Glowing rocks	Sahara Sunrise
Giant mushrooms			On a hunk of chalk
Campsite			The White House
Desertscape	Golden boulders	Another mushroom	Eastern Sahara
Dali's dream			Carved by wind
End of the day			Calcium rich desert
Evening walk	Sunset	Sunrise	Desert highway