Tag: “Desert”

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  1. Road side convenience

    Toilets by the side of the road, through chott el jerid, Tunisia

  2. The Road to Burningman

    If you drive for approximately two hours northeast of Reno , Nevada one week before Labor Day you might see a few strange vehicles along the way. These "mutant vehicles" are headed to Burningman, a week-long event in the Black Rock Desert.

  3. Taliesin West

    Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and architectural school. Every year Wright and his fellowship of apprentices and students, would move between the summer home in Wisconsin, and here in the winter.

  4. Wadi Rum

    Wadi Rum (Arabic: وادي رم) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southwest Jordan. It is the largest wadi in Jordan.

  5. Farafra

    The Farafra Oasis (Arabic: الفرافرة) is the smallest oasis located in Western Egypt, near latitude 27.06° North and longitude 27.97° East. It is located in the Libyan Desert, approximately mid-way between Dakhla and Bahariya.

    Farafra has an estimated 5,000 inhabitants (2002) living witin its single village and is mostly inhabited by the local Bedouins.

  6. altered bike

    Bikes are huge at Burningman. Most people bring their own and modify them.

  7. Grand Canyon star trails

    This was a 25 minute exposure taken from the rim of the Grand Canyon well after dark. The full moon was rising behind me and provides all the illumination for this photo.

  8. San Rafael Valley

  9. Barmer

    "Travelling to the edges of the world does not require traversing long distances. They may actually be found, folded between the seams of modernity", said my fellow traveller casually when our travel agent asked if Barmer was for real.

    Destination Barmer is meant only for the footloose.

  10. Laguna Santa Rosa

    Probably the most ethereal, remote, superlunary, highest, surreal, lonesome camping spot anywhere in any National Park. A BBQ, table, refuge and loo in the middle of nothing.