Then he had trudged from oasis to oasis round the Taklamakan Desert to Kashgar.
From a vast desert to historical chateaus, the scenes are beautifully rendered and help deepen the moment.
An entire city was built in the Nevada desert to house the project's 5, 000 workers and their families.
Robin Hoover, co-founder of Humane Borders, the group that's put water stations in the desert to help prevent crossers from dying.
He wandered and hitchhiked from prairie to desert to forest to roadless area.
People would not have needed to move through Sinai and the inhospitable Arabian desert to reach the Indian Ocean shoreline.
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Most incidents over the past two years have involved armed groups using Tunisia's southern desert to pass between Algeria and Libya.
And over a seven-year period, from 2003 to 2009, they found Iran's Lut Desert to be the hottest place on Earth.
Pakistani drivers travel for miles across the desert to buy the goods and are optimistic trade links between their country and China are strengthening.
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In the vast desert to the south of the coastal strip where more than 90% of Libyans reside, there may be pockets of resistance.
And Lee took cast and crew to the Gobi Desert to film the scenes where Jen and the uncouth Lo meet and fall in love.
Lake Chad sits on the border of the Sahel, a grassland which divides the Sahara Desert to the north and the more humid savannah to the south.
It remains to be seen whether the unique intensity of a Miraval experience will translate from the quiet beauty of the Sonoran Desert to the frantic ambience of Gotham.
In mid-February, Prince made a pilgrimage to the Saudi Arabian desert to meet with Citi's largest individual shareholder, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has said recently that Citi needed to take "draconian" measures to cut costs.
For his new book Gun Guys: A Road Trip, Mr Baum travelled across the US and met a variety of gun owners, from those blasting automatic weapons in the desert to a school teacher hunting pigs.
In a deliberately provocative speech, David Cameron, the Tory leader, adopted the metaphor of a caravan crossing the desert to highlight the importance of making sure that the income growth of the poorest keeps pace with the rest.
From this traditional ranching land, the road follows the Sierra Nevada Mountains northeast through the baking Mojave Desert to a place where no ranching actually takes place, yet the most famous cowboys of them all have come to strut their stuff.
C. and A.D. 500 by brushing away the dark top layer of barren desert to reveal the light, sandy soil underneath, wrote Clive Ruggles, an archaeologist from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, in an email.
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Instead, Mr. Henen often hustles out to remote parts of the Mojave Desert to make sure the threatened desert tortoise, which can weigh 10 pounds and live to be more than 50 years old, isn't frightened by charging troops.
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This week at Inhabitat, we were thankful to be able to witness the long-awaited unveiling of the futuristic solar-powered Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, and we also heard the exciting news that scientists are developing a project that could have us using the Sahara desert to supply 50% of the world's energy by 2050.
Al Gore's sudden transformation from one of the few Democrats who bucked the San Francisco wing to vote for Desert Storm to their standard bearer vis a vis Iraq sent shock waves through his party's political firmament.
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In one generation, Dubai has graduated from a village that people just fly over, to an instant city in the desert, to a destination for migrant workers and expatriates, to a world financial center and demographic microcosm of the planet.
The final irony is that Stein risked his life to unearth treasures from the sands of the Taklamakan Desert only to have them buried in the basement of the British Museum.
The three allege they were then taken to the desert and then to Williams' and Cameron's hotel, said Marc Calcutt, who had earlier represented them on behalf of Reprieve.
It's a hard life, but prosperous, at least in the years when there isn't a drought--then the dry savannah turns to desert and there is nothing to do but hold on and try to survive with enough cattle and game to start over.
Then, swing by Asada Desert Grille to purchase a meal of delectable grilled fish or savoury smoked meat.
From desert herders to fashionable young students, almost everyone you meet is on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp - or all three.
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In hot countries, falconers take their children to the desert and train them to handle the bird and establish a mutual relationship of trust.
But the pilgrims aren't heading off for '"some time by the sea" -- but into the vast Saudi Arabian desert, to the valley of Mina.
France says its troops will start pulling out of Mali in March, and hand over control of the vast northern desert area to African forces.
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