Meharée into the Sahara. MOROCCO

Photos from October 2013

Sossusvlei. NAMIBIA

Sossusvlei is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. The name "Sossusvlei" is of mixed origin and roughly means "dead-end marsh". Photos from Summer 2011 after an exceptionally rainy season that changed the usually dry aspect of this desertic pan. 

Ica desert. PERU

Photos from Summer 2009

Erg Chebbi. MOROCCO

 

Photos from November 2012

Elim Dune. NAMIBIA

Photos from Summer 2011 on the Namib desert.

Death Valley. USA

Lowest and driest area in Northamerica, this desert valley is located in eastern California. Temperatures of almost 60 degrees Celsius have been reported at Furnace creek, its hottest place. You should drive through it when you go from Vegas or the Grand Canyon towards Yosemitee Park. Photos from 1995

Namib desert. NAMIBIA

A wide desertic area, close to the Atlantic coast. Photos from 2011, including some of the emblematic images of the desert like the Dead Vlai (Photo 2) or Elim Dune (Photo 8)

Hassilabiad, door to the desert. MOROCCO

Paisible little village, right by the dunes of Erg Chebbi. Photos from autumn 2012.

Skeleton Coast. NAMIBIA

Shipwrecks scattered all over one of the most inhospitable coasts of the planet. With the cold Benguela stream, the fog, the desert and the ever blowing winds, no wonder the bushmen called it “The land that God made in anger”. Photos from 2011.

Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah. USA

Monument valley, worldwide famous since it appeared in so many wonderful John Ford movies like “Stagecoach” or “The searchers”, is a region of the Colorado plateau characterized by a cluster of vast red sandstone buttes, reaching up until 300 m height. The park is located on the Arizona/Utah state line within the range of the Navajo Nation Reserve. Photo from 1995.

Deadvlei. NAMIBIA

Not far from the more famous Sossulsvlei, the deadvlei is an authentic wonder of the world that we visited in summer 2011. The “Dead lake” is a white clay pan, surrounded by some of the world’s highest dunes. Some camel thorn trees lived in the Deadvlei when there was some water on it. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. The remaining skeletons of the trees are believed to be about 900 years old and are now black because of the intense sun, but not petrified, because the dryness environment keeps the wood from decomposing.