If you are looking for a sand dune park that offers peak adventure, look no further than Little Sahara State Park in Oklahoma. Unlike other state and national parks, like Colorado's Great Sand ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Gearing up: For a project to photograph the world’s extreme deserts, I wanted to visit the giant sand dunes in China’s Inner Mongolia. The only way into the Gobi is on foot or by camel.

The dunes were formed over thousands of years from sand blown over from the neighbouring Sahara Desert. Today, some of the dunes reach up to 10 metres high and are home to a variety of plant species.

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco ... August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.