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...Deserts — Arctic or sand — are fantastic places to get in touch with who you are....
...“Microscopic interest rates, like grains of sand at the beach, had gotten into everything,” he wrote....
...After Laisamis, the road to Sibiloi is two days and 404km of sand and rock desert....
...Sometimes we are in pulverised sand, sometimes it’s shale, occasionally we are on salt. Several times we’re traversing rock, the car lurching left and right like a ship in a mad sea....
...Go a short distance from Punta del Diablo and you feel you’re in a desert. My girlfriend compared them to being in Rajasthan....
...Sean had one last place to show us, a glimpse of a more colourful Oman that had so far eluded us on a trip through the browns, greys and yellows of desert, mountain, rock and sand....
...Its electric tones are intensified by the desert it abuts: parchment-sand beaches, cinnamon-dusted bluffs, the dried sage green of the mountainous hinterlands....
...And that is despite glorious desert and mountain scenery, fascinating ancient rock art and the closest “big five” safari park to Europe....
...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....
...rock formations found in the scalding sands nearby....
...Interiors are simple and comfortable with chairs made of palm leaves and beds and night tables carved out of salt rock....
...There, a growing number of mobile camps allow visitors to get a taste of the world’s largest sand desert without sacrificing comfort....
...Meantime the authorities in London, with an eye on oil-rich desert sands and a share of the proposed Saudi Aramco new issue, are sorely tempted to become more permissive on this and other scores....
...It doesn’t look much like victory — the scorched rocks, bone-dry corpses of long-dead trees and the hot white sand stretching into the distance speak more of a scene of desolation. This is no desert....
...It wasn’t their first time at the show — they also exhibited in 2014 — and travel agents and tour operators were again eager to hear about what the country has to offer, from the rock-hewn tombs of the...
...For the week before the US’s Labor Day holiday, Burning Man, the annual alternative lifestyle event, creates a temporary city of around 70,000 people out of an inhospitable patch of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert...
...In the early 1980s, Sharif travelled deep into the Hatta desert outside Dubai where he presented startling live art works — sometimes jumping in the sand or tying rocks together — to a handful of friends...
...Trucks, trailers, earth movers and other machines used in the nearby Eagle Ford shale formation were sold at rock-bottom prices....
...That dislodged a gigantic rock from its orbit in the outer reaches of the solar system and hurled it towards the sun, until Earth got in the way....
...Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves pumping large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground at high pressure to fracture the shale rock and release trapped gas....
...How to get there: Regular catamaran (30 mins) and traditional ferry services (50mins) run between Hong Kong Island and Lantau....
...of rocks into thickets full of monkeys and herds of wild elephants....
...… Science Fiction by James Lovegrove Sand, by Hugh Howey, Arrow, RRP£7.99 In a post-apocalyptic world over-run by deserts, intrepid divers plunge into the dunes to retrieve treasures from the cities...
...rightly known for its vast stretches of red-dirt emptiness, sand dunes as high as skyscrapers and haunting shipwrecks along its Skeleton Coast....
...Hydraulic fracturing or fracking involves pumping gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressure into the rock deep underground to release the trapped gas....
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