Video: Sahara - queen of the deserts
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Sahara is the most majestic and largest desert in the world, located in North Africa. It is extremely interesting during the day, when every grain of sand sparkles and shimmers under the sun, and the entire mass of sand looks like an endless sea, which carries camel caravans on its waves. At night, the Sahara Desert is also extremely beautiful, with deafening silence, with fresh and transparent air and stars that seem to be somewhere very close and you should reach out and you can touch them.
The Sahara Desert stretches across most of North Africa, covering about 9,000,000 square kilometers. In fact, the Sahara Desert covers about 30% of the entire African continent.
In the Sahara, about 160 thousand mirages are observed annually, and one can observe the appearance of wells, oases, palm groves and even mountain ranges.
Who is really lucky to observe all this extraordinary beauty is the French photographer Fred Relaix, who went to the distant Arab country of Morocco to catch the wonders of the desert. Undoubtedly, the unique pictures of the desert area deserve the highest rating, because to make such amazing photographs you need to be not only a talented photographer, but also a desperate traveler and a rare daredevil.
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