From a vast desert to historical chateaus, the scenes are beautifully rendered and help deepen the moment.
You'd imagine that man could never quite stamp his mark on the vast desert of the Skeleton Coast.
The ground-and-air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the vast desert.
CNN: French troops kill 'hundreds' of Islamist fighters in Mali
Land is cheap: just east of Reno lies the vast desert wilderness.
In the vast desert to the south of the coastal strip where more than 90% of Libyans reside, there may be pockets of resistance.
American officials say that Chad's vast desert teems with terrorists.
The French are confident that this phase of the campaign will soon be over, adds our correspondent, though of course the vast desert hinterland offers the Islamists endless opportunities to retreat and regroup.
The French-led operation in Mali has ousted the Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda's North African branch, from cities and town in the vast desert region they had captured a year ago in the wake of a coup.
In the campaign headquarters of Moulod Hamrouche, one of the leading ex-candidates, adrenaline-charged campaign staff manned the phones and faxes beneath blank result-charts, working desperately to pass word of the pull-out to all the campaign offices across Algeria's vast desert hinterland.
Armed groups have only become more active in Algeria's vast southern desert and neighbouring Sahel states in recent years.
Las Vegas lies at the edge of the vast Mojave Desert, in a bowl-shaped valley in the parched rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The backbone of this would-be tourism boom is nature-viewing safaris to places like Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta and the vast Kalahari Desert.
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.
France, Mali's former colonial power, is leading the offensive after militants captured the vast northern desert region, raising fears they would turn it into a haven for terrorists.
Yet there is speculation that it could be retaliation for France's recent intervention in Mali, where Islamist groups and members of al-Qaeda's North Africa branch - al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - had taken control of the country's vast northern desert region.
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.
The former intelligence chief said the Libyan army had little capability in this vast area of desert and there was a fear of confronting the extremists.
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.
The Mediterranean coastal fringes have a Mediterranean climate with some rain between October and March, but the vast area of desert inland has very little rain at all and here some of the highest temperatures in the world have been recorded.
The Wadi is not a single valley (as the Arabic word suggests) but rather a vast area of protected desert in which the Bedouin have established numerous government-approved camps.
This past weekend, the first of two at the vast polo pitch in the desert here, Coachella took corrective measures.
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In addition to being a vast petroleum repository, the desert nation was also the heart of the most potentially productive region on the planet for harvesting power from the sun.
Some of the Nazca Lines, mysterious geoglyphs that span a vast swath of the rugged Peruvian desert, may have once been a labyrinth with a spiritual purpose, a new study suggests.
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One area of concern is the Sahel, a vast semi-arid area south of the Sahara desert.
The well-designed and compelling museum has a vast mix of artifacts and interactive displays, with a special exhibit on another Nevada desert intrigue, Area 51.
I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.
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