The Black Desert

The Black Desert, beyond Bahariyya Oasis, is unlike any other desert and looks more like the surface of another planet than anywhere on earth.

Instead of sand, there are layers of crushed black rocks, grit and sand; smoothed and scattered by thousands of years of whipping winds. In place of dunes, there are mountains of crumbled black stone hundreds of feet tall that shoot out of the earth unexpectedly at points throughout the desert.