All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘deserts’
Ural Sea disaster – Moynaq, Uzbekistan
When it comes to man-made disasters it’s still hard to top the Aral Sea disaster (for now); created by the Soviets in their attempt to turn some of their annexed territories (the Stans of Central Asia) into productive cotton growing regions. It worked.
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Flaming mountains – Xinjiang, China
Outside of Turpan in Xinjiang province are the Flaming Mountains, so-named as under the mid-day sun their rutted, ravine complexion resembles red-orange-multi-colored tongues of fire. Well, so local myths have it.
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Petra – Jordan
Back in 1989 and aged 23, I simply walked into the entrance of Petra, Jordan; paid my fee, and wandered in with sleeping bag under arm. Despite a sign saying no overnight stays, no camping – no one stopped me.
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Cafayate desert – Patagonia, Argentina
Cafayate desert- Patagonia, Argentina
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Police hassles in Saddam’s Iraq
A wildfire ignites before my eyes as Iraqis whisper to one another as the murmuring spreads to crackling as more faces turn to stare at me. The speaker is losing his audience – his words no longer of interest as 100s of eyes now stare at me
Read More →Chinguetti – Mauritania
Chinguetti – seemingly lost, amid the Sahara Desert on the high Adrar Plateau of Mauritania, is known best known as Islam’s 7th holiest city …
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Shibam – Yemen
Shibam, Yemen: the ancient, towering mud houses known as the “Manhattan of the Desert” …
Read More →Atacama Desert – Chile
Images from the driest desert in the world …
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