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About 360km from Windhoek, Swakopmund feels like a German Baltic beach resort -- apart from the palm trees and desert sand.
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Animal Rescue Officer Tricia Smith collected the sand-coloured desert hairy scorpion.
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Believe it or not, the cleaning must be sufficiently scrupulous so as to ensure that not a single grain of desert sand is transported out of the Middle East, lest it carry bacteria or diseases back to U.S. shores.
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The desert sand is so fine.
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Entire villages in China's north have been lost, submerged in sand by the encroaching desert.
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To prove this point, he and his team buried aluminium squares at different depths under the sand of the Negev desert in southern Israel.
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Johnny remembers when Palm Springs still had sand on the roads, the desert encroaching much more than it does today.
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Belmokhtar and Zeid mastered the contours of this desert, memorizing its sand-swept ancient caravan routes, and pitching their holy war to villagers.
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About 5, 500 years ago, some Phoenicians cooking dinner in the desert found that heat turned sand into glass.
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The safari, included with the room rate, started as a caravan of Land Rovers carrying about 15 hotel guests into the Great Sand Sea, a vast swath of desert that dominates northeastern Africa.
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Besides, I had seen kudu, desert-adapted elephants, springbok, zebra, sand grouse and ostrich.
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As we head out over the desert the view is a spectacular shimmering sea of sand as far as the eye can see.
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Conditions at the desert circuit can be pretty interesting with gusts of winds often blowing sand and grit onto the circuit.
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