Desert Destinations

Antarctica is the world's driest and coldest desert.
Credit: 2018 National Geographic Expeditions    Read the Full Story

Tour operator White Desert's clients sleep in 20-foot-wide, heated, fiberglass pods.
Credit: 2018 White Deserrt    Read the Full Story

The Atacama Desert has similiar terrain to that of Mars.
Credit: 2018 Exodus Travels    Read the Full Story

The Milky Way glowing above Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory
Credit: 2018 Creative Commons user esoastronomy    Read the Full Story

The 500,000-square-mile Gobi Desert is situated in southern Mongolia and northern China.
Credit: 2018 Wilderness Travel    Read the Full Story

American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews discovered fossils of the first dinosaur eggs at the Gobi Desert's Flaming Cliffs in the 1920s.
Credit: 2018 Creative Commons user delphinidaesy    Read the Full Story

The Namib Desert is adjacent to Namibia's coastline, and the sea's fog provides needed moisture for the desert.
Credit: 2018 Exodus Travels    Read the Full Story

In the Namib Desert's Deadvlei, 600-year-old dead camel-thorn trees are unable to decompose completely due to the dry air.
Credit: 2018 Creative Commons user onemoreshotrog    Read the Full Story

More than 1,100 linear dunes make up the Simpson Desert.
Credit: 2018 Creative Commons user Mina Guli    Read the Full Story

The Simpson Desert is considered the real outback.
Credit: 2018 SA Eco Tours    Read the Full Story