Sea Dunes

... Sea and Persian Gulf, in the northern hinterlands of Oman's Al-Dhahira region, classic Arabia meets the unexpected. Cinnamon-colored sand dunes from the Empty Quarter nip at the green fern-gullies of Wadi Dhum; groves of date-palms shadow the honeycombed- ...

... .  It’s only about 30 miles from our KOA, so will go out early tomorrow to see them.  The Oregon Dunes are apparently rather expansive.  Our KOA has numerous Dune Buggies.  I can hear my cousin Marybeth saying “Dune Buggy, ...

... ), Laura and Ilana (my sister and her wife), and their kids, Mia and Kyan. We left Sunday morning (8/14/11) for Warren Dunes in Sawyer, Michigan.  We could not get the condo until 4pm, so we met at the Dunes.  There is something remarkably ...

... . We gladdly took him up on the offer. The remainder of the day was spent touring different parts of the desert. We drove through dunes, and off road around amazing rocks. They took us to this area where you can find fossilized coral. This part of the ...

... here. It was super sweet (have i been talking to too many Yanks?) to see the large, golden sand dunes of Saudi Arabia from the Dahab side of Egypt. The Sinai is an intercontinental crossroads being in between Asia and Africa and has a ...

... on due to the road condition.  All around us, the still desert land being mainly composed of mountains, rocks, cliffs and sand dunes was what made up the scenery for several hours until the Red Sea was reached and the land became flatter.  We ...

... will be in Chicago, which will be a separate blog entry coming later. Anyway I digress; the ‘climb’ over the dunes to reach the shoreline was literally ‘breath taking’ certainly after sitting in Bree for nearly 3 solid days! As we ...

... left at midnight so the stars were super bright as we drove through the desert! I got to watch the sun rise over the dunes and parched mountains at around 5am... I was awake because it was impossible to sleep thanks to the blaring arabic music videos ...

... miles of irrigated beautiful fields of lettuce, cauliflower,etc.  It was a beautiful drive.  We drove through the Imperial San Dunes of CA.  These were miles of large sand dunes but unlike White Sands in NM these were not white but ...

... deserts, and very beautiful.  Besides the sunset jeep tour, we had a three hour morning hiking tour.  We ran up sand dunes (very difficult), stayed in a true Bedouin camp, and got sand blowing into our faces.  Lots of fun.) Okay, now onto ...

... around for a while decided we couldn’t find it. We pulled over again and went for a short wander across some small sand dunes for a view of a small town dotted with lights (which could have Sodom).   The boys raced up the dunes, then back ...

... Wadi Rum around noon on Friday, the landscape changed dramatically. All of the sudden, we were in a region of giant sand dunes, colorful stone mountains, and entirely uninhabited areas. As we drove into the Wadi Rum national park, surrounding us were red ...

... here. Finally we come out into a wide sandy plateau- mountains surround us and the floor of the valley alternates between rock and sand dunes. We drive to a cave that goes all the way through the rock and had a huge sand dune up one side from the wind ...

... the chorus blared "Give me your heart, make it real or else forget about it!" Samee sped the truck in circles, weaving around dunes and occasionally plunging right over them. I stuck my head out the window and let the hot desert air whip against my face ...

... specifically for motorbikes! We decided to stay on the coastal road for as long as possible and went to Guadalupe to see the sand dunes where Pirates of the Carribbean - At World's End was filmed. The entire movie set of the 1923 version of the Ten ...

... my tour group. Which didn’t bother me but Chris was actually concerned they had kidnapped me. He came running back up the sand dunes to find me. I WISH I was kidnapped as it would have gotten me off the camel much sooner. I had to get the 8 year ...

... , at the southern tip of Israel on the Red Sea. The drive down, through the Negev desert, was really beautiful -- amazing dunes, rock formations, and herds of camels running alongside us and across the road.  Eilat itself is interesting -- a real resort ...

... if the greenery that bordered the Nile Area disputed that fact. A desert can exist even in the absence of large flowing sand dunes. Even the short distance from the buses to the entrance of the temple was sufficiently long enough to re-assure us of the ...

... if the greenery that bordered the Nile Area disputed that fact. A desert can exist even in the absence of large flowing sand dunes. Even the short distance from the buses to the entrance of the temple was sufficiently long enough to re-assure us of the ...

... would have been a nightmare for them. A bunch of western idiots zooming around on soft sand. It would of been  - sand dunes 1 - Idiots 0 - . As an example. At one point we were driving along, all in a line, i was looking around me at the beautiful ...

... into hours as Sadat kept driving the bus through a very much deserted zig zagging road surrounded by miles and miles of sand dunes that gradually changed into very high elevated rocky mountains.  It totally felt as if we were on the moon since ...