dunes

Ben was ecstatic about going to the dunes from the beginning, whereas I was excited about seeing the animals in the national parks, so I was more along for the ride for this part of the trip … This soon changed as we drove toward Sesriem Canyon and the dirt-covered hills began to lose their desert vegetation, and our dusty surroundings gradually became a deep reddish brown.

Double-Double Your Vacation (Part One) « Peace Corps South Africa 2008

Occupying just 1% of the Gobi, the dunes are a 60-mile-long stretch of peaks and valleys sculpted by the winds, rising in some spots to as many as 600 feet above the desert floor.

Dunes Struck 2011

Stan Sesser/The Wall Street Journal Occupying just 1% of the Gobi, the dunes are a 60-mile-long stretch of peaks and valleys sculpted by the winds, rising in some spots to as many as 600 feet above the desert floor.

Camel-Trekking Across the Gobi 2011

Locals call the dunes a haven for family picnics, sunset strolls and first kisses.

A Billionaire's Dune Duel Bryan Gruley 2010

If played well in the sand dunes, which is not uncommon to see a maximum of 10 feet in the air at the top of a dune.

Dune Original | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

Two small hills at the dead end of my road become large sand dunes, and beyond the dunes is a large river, which is a creek in Real Life, and beneath it lays the skeleton of a small airplane.

Where SeaDrykes go to dance and dream - and a dream source, too Bettina Tizzy 2008

There are three more fragrances in the Lostmarc'h line, btw, and if you're still thinking about moving to some French seashore, please do try Ael-Mat ("guardian angel"), if you can get it, because this definitely exactly smells like the dunes on the French Atlantic coast in summer (the small pink flowers that grow on those dunes, that is, they smell so strong they fill the air with their scent quite intensely).

Lostmarc'h Laan-Ael, Aod, Atao and Iroaz Marina Geigert 2008

My dunes are the highest on the whole Scottish coast.

The Thistle and the Bee Shoumatoff, Alex 2008

The few species known to sparsely vegetate the dunes are the perennial grasses Stipagrostis sabulicola and S. gonostachys as well as Monsonia ignorata and the succulent Trianthema hereroensis.

Namib desert 2008

Two small hills at the dead end of my road become large sand dunes, and beyond the dunes is a large river, which is a creek in Real Life, and beneath it lays the skeleton of a small airplane.

Archive 2008-04-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008