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Frazer Island is a World Heritage Site and much emerged as one of the Australian’s great natural treasures. From the Queensland coast, it appears cloaked in lush, deep green forest. But for all rainforests and lakes, Frazer Island is in fact the largest sand island in the world – 120 km by 15 km – with more sand than the Sahara Desert, and with dunes up to 224 m high. There is no where like it on planet Earth. Photo by: geoffman4242
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These camping tours are for the people who are looking for adventure. The oasis at the edge of Merzouga’s sand dunes, Morocco, gives you an opportunity for one remarkable desert holidays. The Berber tents (or the Bedouins tents) are located right on the dunes so you could take long walks and see sunset in the desert easily. It’s your own place on the dunes.
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The “Red Lizard train” – passenger train of the 19th century, runs through the red and pink rocks, split by canyons of the Sahara Atlas mountains, Tunisia. This is one of the most spectacular train trips one can take. The scenery is wonderful. This old fashioned train travels through stony desert landscapes, mountains tunnels, steel bridges, water springs, deep gorges, but also stops at green oases.
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Hoggar, large plateau in the north center of the Sahara, on the Tropic of Cancer, North Africa. Its height is above 3,000 feet (900 m), culminating in Mount Tahat (9,573 feet [2,918 m]) in southeastern Algeria. The plateau, about 965 miles (1,550 km) north to south and 1,300 miles (2,100 km) east to west, is rocky desert composed of black volcanic (basalt) necks and of flows rising above a pink granite massif. The highest peak, Tahat Mountain, is 3,003 metres high, and may have snow at any time of the year. The landscape is rocky and arid, with only occasional vegetation. A couple of seasonal rivers cut through the landscape, and give room for a few settlements, among which there is only one town, Tamanrasset.
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The complex of ruins from which the modern nation of Zimbabwe took its name is one of the country’s greatest historical and cultural attractions. As Paul Tingay’s helpful guide explains, Great Zimbabwe, the largest ruins in Africa, covers almost 1,800 acres.
The ruins of this complex of massive stone walls undulate across almost 1,800 acres of present-day southeastern Zimbabwe. Begun during the eleventh century A.D. by Bantu-speaking ancestors of the Shona, Great Zimbabwe was constructed and expanded for more than 300 years in a local style that eschewed rectilinearly for flowing curves.
Neither the first nor the last of some 300 similar complexes located on the Zimbabwean plateau, Great Zimbabwe is set apart by the terrific scale of its structure. Its most formidable edifice, commonly referred to as the Great Enclosure, has walls as high as 36 feet extending approximately 820 feet, making it the largest ancient structure south of the Sahara Desert. In the 1800s, European travelers and English colonizers, stunned by Great Zimbabwe’s its grandeur and cunning workmanship, attributed the architecture to foreign powers. Such attributions were dismissed when archaeological investigations conducted during the first decades of the twentieth century confirmed both the antiquity of the site and its African origins.
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The Dakar Rally, often characterized as the most arduous and dangerous motor race in the world, consists of 15 stages over the span of 16 days, with some 5,000 miles of competition to Senegal via Portugal, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, and Guinea. The 28th Dakar is now in its final stretch, with three days of competition remaining before the competitors arrive on the shores of Lake Rose in Dakar, Senegal
Life on the Dakar is best described as like being part of a huge military exercise, where adverse conditions, lack of sleep, poor food and constant threat of injury or death are the norm. As the race moves into the toughest desert stages, entrants find it ever more difficult to stay on schedule – one minor mechanical failure can easily necessitate a night in the dunes waiting for an assistance vehicle to arrive. This will put the racer in the agonizing position of having to leave the next “bivouac” (Dakar’s military-style name for rest-stop) almost as soon as they have arrived in order to get back on track.
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Local name : Algetie (French)
Timezone : GMT+1
Area : 2460500km’/949753sqmi
Population total : (2002e)3 126 1000
Status : Democratic republic
Date of independence : 1962
Capital : Algiers
Language : Arabic (official/, Berber, French)
Ethnogroups : Arab (7s%), Berber (2s%)
Religions : Muslim (Sunni 99%), Roman Catholic (0.5%)

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