Sahara Desert

Sunday 2 September 2012

The Sahara "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot desert and third largest desert, after Antarctica and the Arctic. At over 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it covers most of North Africa, making it almost as large as China or the United States. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna that composes the northern region of central and western Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the sand dunes can reach 180 metres (590 ft) in height. The name comes from the Arabic word for desert: (صَحراء ṣaḥrāʾ [sˤɑħrɑːʔ]).

 Sahara Desert
 Sahara Desert
 Sahara Desert
Sahara Desert

2 comments

  1. Sahara desert is one of the precious place but it is not very tourism place although people can do sort of adventure there as i have do campfire with my friends in Thar Desert which have very unique climate and night of entire area is very romantic.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sahara desert is one of the largest and beautiful desert last year i got cheap umrah packages and i manage to visit desert in Makkah but those desert don't have too much attraction on it.

    ReplyDelete