A wide swath of eastern Morocco is part of the Sahara Desert, shared with neighboring ... are linked by centuries of trade along the “Salt Road” between Marrakesh and Timbuktu to the south ...

leading an azalaï of a dozen salt-carrying camels through the Sahara desert to Timbuktu. And today, I’m finally joining him.” As the group winds through the desert, Malik, in charge of a ...

When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out ... You'll find rocky plateaus, expansive gravel plains, flat salt terrains, and imposing mountains.

Between 2000 and 2021, Sebkha el Melah, a salt flat in central Algeria ... Flash flooding in Merzouga, a small Moroccan town in the Sahara Desert, near the Algerian border. Majority World ...

In the first image, Algeria's salt-encrusted Sebkha el Melah can ... While most of us know the Sahara Desert to be covered in sand, roughly 11,000 to 15,000 years ago, it looked very different.

There are also dry valleys and lake beds, as well as salt flats ... of rain on the northwest Sahara in the space of just two days. This caused flooding in the desert for the first time in decades ...