Egypt
- Photos Of The Western Desert
The Western Desert - Roads to Gilf Kebir (photos by Yarko Kobylecky) Some lovely photographs of Dakhleh Oasis, the Gilf Kebir and other Western Desert locations. The photographs are highly saturated and the contrast is very high, so these are more...
- Travel: The Colonel's Caravan (gilf Kebir)
The National (John Zada) “Hit the gas hard and stay on my tracks,” our driver orders into the radio before stepping on the accelerator and catapulting us up a long and narrow wadi of red sand rising between two rocky plateaus. Tension grips the passengers...
- Landmines In The Egyptian Desert
Fragmented Legs (Blog) I was going to classify this under "tourism" on the grounds that the mines are truly there, which is something that all the tour companies who operate there are aware of . The tour companies know where the mines are located, and...
- Deadly Creatures Of The Desert
New Stuff () A short overview on the Explorer School's blog of some of the deadlier occupants of the Egyptian deserts. In the last five years of desert exploration and travel I have seen one scorpion and one horned viper. I have seen sand viper tracks...
- Travel: Gilf Kebir
LexicOrient Gilf Kebir, meaning something like 'Great Wilderness' in Arabic, is almost 8,000 km², larger than many European countries. Seen from space, it is an almost circular plateau made from limestone and sandstone. The mountainous structures...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Gilf Kebir
Lovely sand dune with animal tracks
You'll have to click to view the larger image to see the animal trakcs
which are at the left of the photograph. Truly remarkable - we
were right out in the middle of the Western Desert with nothing
green visble for miles in any direction. We saw tracks left by desert foxes,
gerbils, lizards, scorpions, snakes and scarab beetles.
We saw desert foxes in both 2007 and 2008 but I was never
quick enough to photograph them.
You'll have to click to view the larger image to see the animal trakcs
which are at the left of the photograph. Truly remarkable - we
were right out in the middle of the Western Desert with nothing
green visble for miles in any direction. We saw tracks left by desert foxes,
gerbils, lizards, scorpions, snakes and scarab beetles.
We saw desert foxes in both 2007 and 2008 but I was never
quick enough to photograph them.
- Photos Of The Western Desert
The Western Desert - Roads to Gilf Kebir (photos by Yarko Kobylecky) Some lovely photographs of Dakhleh Oasis, the Gilf Kebir and other Western Desert locations. The photographs are highly saturated and the contrast is very high, so these are more...
- Travel: The Colonel's Caravan (gilf Kebir)
The National (John Zada) “Hit the gas hard and stay on my tracks,” our driver orders into the radio before stepping on the accelerator and catapulting us up a long and narrow wadi of red sand rising between two rocky plateaus. Tension grips the passengers...
- Landmines In The Egyptian Desert
Fragmented Legs (Blog) I was going to classify this under "tourism" on the grounds that the mines are truly there, which is something that all the tour companies who operate there are aware of . The tour companies know where the mines are located, and...
- Deadly Creatures Of The Desert
New Stuff () A short overview on the Explorer School's blog of some of the deadlier occupants of the Egyptian deserts. In the last five years of desert exploration and travel I have seen one scorpion and one horned viper. I have seen sand viper tracks...
- Travel: Gilf Kebir
LexicOrient Gilf Kebir, meaning something like 'Great Wilderness' in Arabic, is almost 8,000 km², larger than many European countries. Seen from space, it is an almost circular plateau made from limestone and sandstone. The mountainous structures...