lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing" as any in Egypt. We drove over dunes, and passed through the Black Desert (where the hills are "charred" with basalt) and the White Desert ...

Now, my kids aren ... taste of Egypt without the tombs and tours. One evening we were whisked away in a Land Rover, strapped in and taken on break-neck speed blast through the desert, which ...

Few travelers venture into that 90 percent. The vast Western Desert, which blends into Libya and beyond, is Egypt’s great unknown. Adventurers since Alexander the Great have braved the harsh ...