The Sahara Desert is the world's biggest and most iconic desert. It's most easily visited in Morocco, but that still requires days of driving.

Tours. Currently, first-time travelers to the Sahara Desert are allowed to visit Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. There are other areas where travelers are allowed to visit, just as there are many ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Transporting iron ore from a remote mine in the Sahara Desert to the Atlantic coast, Mauritania’s Train du Desert rumbles 437 miles (704 kilometers) across one of the planet’s least inhabited ...

First Posted: 1/30/2013 (AP) The awe-inspiring dunes and wild mountains of Algeria’s Sahara have lured adventure travelers for decades, but their latest incarnation as a crossroad for the al ...

Tours. Currently, first-time travelers to the Sahara Desert are allowed to visit Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. There are other areas where travelers are allowed to visit, just as there are many ...

Most of the tours start from Marrakesh with a drive across the High Atlas mountains via Aït Benhaddou, a fortified desert town that’s both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular filming ...

Africa is one of the best continents for arid escapes with surreal landscapes like Namibia’s Sossusvlei, the “Star Wars” scenes of Tunisia and the Sahara iron ore train of Mauritania.