Deserts

18 photos of the Rub al Khali desert near the Liwa oasis with its beautiful sand dunes

14 photos of the date palm plantations and roads in the Liwa oasis

30 photos of Tal Mireb, a site in the Rub al Khali desert with one of the world's tallest sand dunes and a major motor sports centre

62 photos of the Liwa oasis, a very large oasis 160km southwest of Abu Dhabi

66 photos of the Musandam peninsula, an Oman exclave at the northeastern tip of the Arabian peninsula

14 photos of the Geopark, an area with interesting rock formations in the west of Qeshm.

16 photos of the Stars Valley, an area on Qeshm island where the sandstone has been deeply eroded by water and wind

58 photos of Timimoun, a desert town in the Gourara region of central Algeria at the southern end of the Grand Erg Occidental desert

19 photos of Ain Sefra, a small city and oasis in the Ksour mountain range at 1000m of altitude

38 photos of the Western Desert (Grand Erg Occidental). the second largest erg in Algeria

14 photos of the desert scenery around Al Ula

10 photos of Elephant rock, a large elephant-shaped rock formation

17 photos of the Nafud desert, a sand desert northwest of Riyadh