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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains & Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains & Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Resting under an Acacia Tree.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains & Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains & Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains & Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains & Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Camel Caravan travelling through the Air Mountains & Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Sand dunes within the extinct Caldera of Arakao.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Sand Dunes on the edge of the Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.New growth in the Tenere Desert.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger, Tenere Desert.Sand dunes within the extinct Caldera of Arakao.This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering over 7.7 million hectares.
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Niger,Timia Oasis. Tuareg riders preparing to race their camels as part of the Spring Harvest Festival.
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Niger,Agadez. For more than 500 years Agadez has been a crossroads for Berbers and sub-Saharan Africans,Arab traders and European explorer. A place of Ghanaian gold and Makkan pilgrims,Barbary horses and Ottoman brocades. Today outsiders come to Agadez for the goods and services of a new millennium - high-grade uranium and high-end tourism.
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Niger,Tenere Desert. Rock Art of Giraffes in Dabos,near Ifrouane. The engravings,include a beautiful group of giraffes,on an outcrop of dark boulders situated on the edge of what was a large lake several thousand years ago. The rock art are estimated to be between 6000 and 8000 years old.
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Niger,Tenere Desert. Rock Art thought to be 30,000 years old found near the Oasis of Tezizet.
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Niger,Sahara,Tenere Desert. Sand Dunes of the Tenere Desert. This is the largest protected area in Africa,covering over 7.7 million hectares. It includes the volcanic massif of the Air Mountains,a Sahelian island isolated in climate,flora and fauna in the surrounding Saharan desert of Tenere. The site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991.
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Niger,Tenere Desert. Four Wheel Drive vehicle on the edge of the Tenere Desert.
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At 509 feet below sea level, Lake Assal is the lowest place in Africa.Thousands of years ago, the lake level was much higher as evidenced by the watermark on the hills. Nomadic Afar tribesmen come here with their camels to collect salt.The salt is sold across the border in Ethiopia.
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An Afar camel caravan crosses the salt flats of Lake Assal, Djibouti, as shadows lengthen in the late afternoon sun. At 509 feet below sea level, Lake Assal is the lowest place in Africa.Extremely high midday temperatures, which can surpass 120 Fahrenheit.The salt is sold across the border in Ethiopia.
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An Afar camel caravan crosses the salt flats of Lake Assal, Djibouti, as shadows lengthen in the late afternoon sun. At 509 feet below sea level, Lake Assal is the lowest place in Africa.Extremely high midday temperatures, which can surpass 120 Fahrenheit.The salt is sold across the border in Ethiopia.
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An Afar camel caravan crosses the salt flats of Lake Assal, Djibouti, as shadows lengthen in the late afternoon sun. At 509 feet below sea level, Lake Assal is the lowest place in Africa.Extremely high midday temperatures, which can surpass 120 Fahrenheit.The salt is sold across the border in Ethiopia.
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Niger,Timia Oasis. Local Tuareg woman. Traditionally,Muslim Tuareg women do not wear veils but the men keep their faces covered.
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A nomad sits in the desert and talks on his mobile phone. It should be noted that it is not always possible to recieve a signal.
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A nomad sits in the desert and talks on his mobile phone. It should be noted that it is not always possible to recieve a signal.
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Lake Abbe, on the border of Djibouti and Ethiopia, is the last in a line of alkaline lakes in which the Awash River dissipates.Livestock belonging to the nomadic Afar people graze this harsh, windswept region.
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Lake Abbe, on the border of Djibouti and Ethiopia, is the last in a line of alkaline lakes in which the Awash River dissipates. The jagged pinnacles and spires close to the lake were formed thousands of years ago when volcanic gases bubbled up through the bottom of an ancient lake that was 100 feet deeper than it is today.Livestock belonging to the nomadic Afar people graze this harsh, windswept r
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Lake Abbe, on the border of Djibouti and Ethiopia, is the last in a line of alkaline lakes in which the Awash River dissipates. The jagged pinnacles and spires close to the lake were formed thousands of years ago when volcanic gases bubbled up through the bottom of an ancient lake that was 100 feet deeper than it is today.Livestock belonging to the nomadic Afar people graze this harsh, windswept r
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An Afar camel caravan crosses the salt flats of Lake Assal, Djibouti, as shadows lengthen in the late afternoon sun. At 509 feet below sea level, Lake Assal is the lowest place in Africa.Extremely high midday temperatures, which can surpass 120 Fahrenheit.The salt is sold across the border in Ethiopia.
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Niger, Agadez, Sahara Desert, Tenere, Kogo. A Tuareg walks up the ridge of a large sand dune in the Tenere with the Taghmert Mountains in the distance.
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Niger, Agadez, Sahara Desert, Tenere, Kogo. A Tuareg sits to enjoy the desert scenery from the top of a tall sand dune.
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A Berber tribesman leads his camel through the sand dunes of the Erg Chegaga,in the Sahara region of Morocco.
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Nomad tribesman on horse back riding on the salt desert, Dordo, Kutch, Gujarat, India.
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Lake Abbe, on the border of Djibouti and Ethiopia, is the last in a line of alkaline lakes in which the Awash River dissipates. Livestock belonging to the nomadic Afar people graze this harsh, windswept region.
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Gabbra houses in semi-desert terrain at the northern edge of the Chalbi Desert. The wealth of the Gabbra is their camels.
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Gabbra houses at North Horr, an oasis in semi-desert terrain at the northern edge of the Chalbi Desert.
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Chad, Terkei, Ennedi, Sahara. A Toubou nomad rides across the arid plains near Terkei.
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Chad, Bechike, Ennedi, Sahara. A Toubou nomad on horseback drives his livestock to Bechike well.
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Chad, Batha, Wadi Achim, Sahel. A group of Arab Ouled Sliman nomads pause for water in the desert close to Wadi Achim.
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The natural rock pools along the Sirima lugga (seasonal watercourse) are important to the Turkana and their livestock in an otherwise waterless,rocky region at the southern end of Lake Turkana. In a year of average rainfall,water in the deepest pools will last throughout the year. If they dry up,the Turkana resort to using the alkaline water of Lake Turkana.
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The natural rock pools along the Sirima lugga (seasonal watercourse) are important to the Turkana and their livestock in an otherwise waterless,rocky region at the southern end of Lake Turkana. In a year of average rainfall,water in the deepest pools will last throughout the year. If they dry up,the Turkana resort to using the alkaline water of Lake Turkana.
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The natural rock pools along the Sirima lugga (seasonal watercourse) are important to the Turkana and their livestock in an otherwise waterless,rocky region at the southern end of Lake Turkana. In a year of average rainfall,water in the deepest pools will last throughout the year. If they dry up,the Turkana resort to using the alkaline water of Lake Turkana.
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Maasai livestock watering at the seasonal Sanjan River,which rises in the Gol Mountains of northern Tanzania.
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Datoga herdsmen drive their family's cattle along the edge of Lake Balangida Lelu,a seasonal alkaline lake situated due south of Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania. Balang'ida in the Datoga language means 'salt'.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
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Berber tribesmen lead their camels through the sand dunes of the Erg Chegaga,in the Sahara region of Morocco.
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The Festival in the Desert 2005. Touregs arriving by camel to the festival
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The grass huts and granary stores of a Nyangatom settlement. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south-western Ethiopia.
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A rainbow rises behind the temporary grass huts of a Nyangatom settlement. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south-western Ethiopia.
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Ghadames, Libya; A vast view of the Ghadames desert with a car dwarfed by its surroundings and low mountains in the background
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