The Otherworldly Colors of Morocco’s Deserts
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2017
It’s amazing what a little change in light can do to a landscape. Blue skies can turn red, orange sand can turn purple. In this photo series...
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Dasht-e Kavir, The Great Salt Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2015
Dasht-e Kavir, also known the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau, about 300 kilometers east-sou...
White Sands Desert, New Mexico
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2015
About 26 km southwest of Alamogordo and just south of the White Sands Missile Range , in the state of New Mexico, the United States, is an i...
The Mysterious Libyan Desert Glass
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2015
Between the borders of Egypt and Libya is the Great Sand Sea, an enormous sandy desert that stretches about 650 km from north to south and 3...
Kubu Island: A Desert Island of Baobabs and Ancient Fossils
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2013
In the vast expanse of the great salt flats of Makgadikgadi in the north of the Kalahari, lies an isolated granite outcrop, some 10 meters h...
The Sand Dunes of Rub al Khali
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2013
RubÊ¿ al-Khali, (literally “Empty Quarter” in Arabic), also spelled Al-RabÊ¿ al-Khali, is a vast desert in the southern Arabian Peninsula, cov...
The Green Belt Along The World’s Longest Desert Highway
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2013
The Tarim Desert Highway across the Taklamakan desert, in China, links the cities of Luntai and Minfeng on the northern and southern edges o...
Where the Namib Desert meets the Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2013
The Southern Namib desert is home to some of the tallest and most spectacular dunes of the world, ranging in color from pink to vivid orange...
Surrealistic Landscape of Deadvlei, Namibia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2013
The picture below is not that of a painting. It was taken inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia, in a strange and alien landscape called...
White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2013
The White Pocket is an isolated, notoriously hard-to-reach patch of sandstone hidden within the desert expanse of Vermillion Cliffs National...
Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2013
Located not far from the coast of southwest Australia are thousands of limestone pillars that rise from the shifting yellow sands. In places...
Kolmanskop, a Ghost Town Devoured by the Namibian Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2012
Kolmanskop is a famous ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. Once a sm...
8 Deserts That Aren’t Really Deserts
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2012
Deserts take up nearly one-third of the Earth's land surface, yet only 41 countries in the world (one-fifth) are hosts to all the desert...
McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: The Driest Place on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2012
Antarctica is covered with ice, but not all of it. The McMurdo Dry Valleys is almost entirely snow free. Located among mountains by McMurdo ...
The Great Dune of Pyla: A Moving Desert in France
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2012
The Great Dune of Pyla, located 60 km from Bordeaux in the Arcachon Bay area, France, happens to be the tallest sand dune in Europe. Also kn...
Chara Sands: Miniature Desert in the Freezing Cold of Siberia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2012
Just 40 kilometers from the Kodar Glaciers in Kalar district of Trans-Baikal region, right next to the snow-capped mountains and the limitle...
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park: The Flooded Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2011
The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil, is one of the most marvelous and unique places in t...
Tottori Sand Dunes: A Mini Desert in Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2011
Who would have thought there is a desert in Japan? Well, not quite a desert but a huge sand dune that looks nearly a desert to me. It’s the ...
The White Desert of Egypt
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2010
About 45 km north of Farafra, the White Desert begins. It’s truly a white desert in clear contrast with the yellow desert elsewhere, somethi...
