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Aqabat - White Desert
He who wonders, discovers that this in itself is a wonder.
S'émerveiller est une merveille en soi.
(M.C. Escher)
I love deserts and I had the great opportunity to travel to the "White Desert". It's located in the Western Desert in Egypt. For 5 days, we travelled and slept like the Bedouins do, with the stars above our heads ....
This was the "entrance" to a magical place : Aqabat. The guide stopped the car, told us to step out and watch ! It was just amazing ! We settled our camp a little further where the 'road' is narrower. What do you think ?
The Farafra depression (Arabic: واحة الفرافرة pronounced [elfɑˈɾɑfɾɑ]) is the second biggest depression by size in Western Egypt and the smallest by population. It is in the large Western Desert of Egypt, approximately mid-way between Dakhla and Bahariya oases.
A main geographic attraction of Farafra is its White Desert (known as Sahara el Beyda, with the word "sahara" meaning a desert) — a national park of Egypt and 45 km (28 mi) north of the town of Farafra, the main draw of which is its rock type colored from snow-white to cream. It has massive chalk rock formations that are text-book examples of ventifact and which have been created as a result of occasional sandstorm in the area.
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Aqabat - White Desert
He who wonders, discovers that this in itself is a wonder.
S'émerveiller est une merveille en soi.
(M.C. Escher)
I love deserts and I had the great opportunity to travel to the "White Desert". It's located in the Western Desert in Egypt. For 5 days, we travelled and slept like the Bedouins do, with the stars above our heads ....
This was the "entrance" to a magical place : Aqabat. The guide stopped the car, told us to step out and watch ! It was just amazing ! We settled our camp a little further where the 'road' is narrower. What do you think ?
The Farafra depression (Arabic: واحة الفرافرة pronounced [elfɑˈɾɑfɾɑ]) is the second biggest depression by size in Western Egypt and the smallest by population. It is in the large Western Desert of Egypt, approximately mid-way between Dakhla and Bahariya oases.
A main geographic attraction of Farafra is its White Desert (known as Sahara el Beyda, with the word "sahara" meaning a desert) — a national park of Egypt and 45 km (28 mi) north of the town of Farafra, the main draw of which is its rock type colored from snow-white to cream. It has massive chalk rock formations that are text-book examples of ventifact and which have been created as a result of occasional sandstorm in the area.
You can visit my photo blog here : objectifregarder.blogspot.fr
and my Facebook page : www.facebook.com/pages/Objectif-Regarder/118029341548052