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...As Barnett drives me back to my hotel, I wonder aloud about the heart of a whale....
...Safari Drive arranges self-drive trips across southern Africa in a 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser equipped with a rooftop tent and camping equipment....
...In Valldemossa, I picked up lingering echoes of Chopin at the monastery where he and George Sand spent a holiday from hell over the damp winter of 1838-39....
...I also recommend taking a slow cruise along North Indian Canyon Drive at sunset, when the resolutely turning blades are silhouetted against the apricot sky....
...By necessity, one has to camp somewhere that a van can drive to; by definition, that is not somewhere I want to camp....
...As you head south on Upper Great Highway, cars have to turn inland, but you can stay on the paved road that continues behind the sand dunes....
...With 2km to go, we obeyed the computer’s instruction to turn off the road, and found ourselves on a winding gravel track that suddenly dropped into a desert-like canyon....
...There were Dorcas gazelles, olive baboons, Nubian bustards and, if my eye could have reached deep enough into the canyon, the last of the Sahara’s desert crocodiles....
...I don’t use my phone camera or post on Instagram; I like to be in the moment, experiencing the waves and the sand....
...A little bit of me craves one of these, even if I would never be able to drive it....
...Rather than white sands and smart restaurants, the draw here is the pristine rainforests, remote mountain gorges and waterfalls....
...It shows up as a deep red splodge in satellite pictures; on the ground huge rocks rise up like islands from a sea of sand....
...Rent a boat or a hut on the shore and you can almost forget the city is a 20 minute drive away....
...We’ve reached Padre Bay now and are twisting through Labyrinth Canyon, a lunarscape of rounded ochre boulders, looking for a spit of sand to anchor up....
...For the next three days, Uararavi will drive us up rocky passes, through stone canyons and across golden plains, each landscape seemingly infinite, in search of the desert-adapted lion, elephant, rhino and...
...While it may lack the focus and drive of that earlier work, RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR nevertheless contains much of wonder in words strewn across its pages like treasures revealed on the sand by a retreating...
...Asbyrgi A short drive east of whale-watching capital Húsavík, this dramatic canyon is thought to have been formed in a few apocalyptic days, by meltwater from a huge subglacial eruption....
...“They had a hot-rod culture here, they had palm trees, they had blonde beach bunnies in the sand. There was progressive jazz happening at the same time....
...The sand smell of the Karakum fills the plane as we arrive....
...Tim Moore Discovery Cape Disappointment, US The west coast drive down US Highway 101 is the definitive full-fat, supersized, all-American road trip: epic sands, giant redwoods, big blue sky and 1,000 miles...
...one warm and star-filled night beneath the 250-metre orange sandstone spear of Utah’s Steamboat Rock, down on the Green River, just above where it joins the Colorado and begins to burrow down into Grand Canyon...
...Off the main stream we found a crescent of sand – a little beach all to ourselves. My wife, who only came on the trip because there was no camping, was entranced....
...In another of those golden sunsets, there was almost something of St Lucia about the towering green peak rising above the dark sand at Hvalnes – at least until I got out of the car and had my sunglasses...
...You can wander through Hell’s Gate, along Deadman Pass, climb your choice of Coffin or Funeral Peak and visit both Desolation and Starvation canyons....
...both the Red Sea and Dead Sea, hiked through Wadi Rum – a spectacular series of sandstone canyons – and camped in the desert....
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