I have just come back from Mars. Or, at least, a place so unearthly that it is what I imagine snapshots from a holiday jaunt to Mars – or Uranus, or Jupiter – would look like. Black pitted landscapes of rippling rock. Mineral-rich conical mountains in shimmering oranges and emerald greens. Chalk pinnacles that rise out of the sand in shapes that seem to have fallen straight out of a surrealist painting. It’s a thoroughly alien environment supplanted firmly on earth. This is Egypt’s Western Desert.
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WoW
Hope you had a great trip. Lots of the photos looked like they could have been from the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico, US.
I’ve been meaning to get to New Mexico for YEARS! A lot of Americans have said how similar some of the landscapes are to my favourite Middle Eastern deserts.
Bisti badlands are one of my favorites. Only went there twice, but WOW what scenery.
http://www.americansouthwest.net/new_mexico/bisti_badlands/
When you go, take me! (and someday I’ll get to the middle east and beg you for a tour)
Yup, our Southwest is LOADED with good stuff. It’s similar to three places I know for sure: the Med, the Mid East, and Australia. But it actually has quite a diverse landscape depending on the seasons. Come on over. We’d love to have you! 🙂
That really looks cool. The dessert has its very own charme.
I’d love to travel to the Egyptian Mars…
Those pictures look really cool.
Beautiful description.
i just love your pictures ❤
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This is a place i forever want to go. Ive been to the grand canyon, the closes I’ve come to mar. Awesome photos by the way. You got you point across.
Interesting.
Wow, great captures. You don’t normally see those types of landscapes when you think of Egypt! 🙂
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