While Egypt ... the Black Desert, and the White Desert at Dahab Hostel in Cairo, I was intrigued. I was dying to get out of the city after a week in busy, polluted Cairo. Though I knew little ...

We then had little rough drive to the ancient site of Wadi Al-Ubayid, or the White Valley. We then drove to the Black Desert, which consists mainly of mountains formed primarily out of small ...

The White Desert, about 500 km (about ... of the Milky Way when they spend a night in the desert north of Egypt’s Farafra Oasis. The nearby Black Desert gets its name from the volcanic rock ...

lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing" as any in Egypt. We drove over dunes, and passed through the Black Desert (where the hills are "charred" with basalt) and the White Desert ...