The ear-splitting roar of his jet ski fills the air as Hamza al-Hamm thunders past, kicking up plumes of water -- not at the ...

In many ways, Merthyr Mawr has the aesthetic of a Cotswolds town like Bibury. Read Next: The antiques-filled valley market ...

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A wide spectrum of colour harmonies derives from the resonance of contrasting hues of the sand grains in the ripples that cover the dunes. A true portrait of the desert where the light-coloured ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

The Imperial Sand Dunes (also known as the "Algodones Dunes ... blockbusters like "Return of the Jedi" and "Lawrence of Arabia"). By car, the Imperial Sand Dunes are about two and a half hours ...

Nestled between the Arabian Sea and the soaring Dhofar Mountains, the city of Salalah in Oman is a striking anomaly in the ...

Many head into the Qatari desert in the cooler months, spilling out of the capital Doha to barrel down dunes in all-terrain vehicles — Karim JAAFAR With the rev of an engine and a last tremendous pull ...