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A Desert Camel Caravan - Peking to Russian TurkestanA Desert Camel Caravan travelling from Peking, China to Russian Turkestan (the territory of modern-day Tajikistand and Kazakhstan). Date: circa 1920s
Rosita Forbes at Jaghbub crossing the Sahara DesertRosita Forbes (1890-1967), English travel writer and explorer at Jaghbub (a remote desert oasis village in the eastern Libyan Desert)
SYRIA. Palmira. Great Colonnade. In the background, the Castle of Qalaat ibn Maan. Roman art. Early Empire
Libya. Tadrart Acacus. ArchaeologyLIBYA. Tadrart Acacus. Representation of a village (12.000-8000 a.C.). Neolithic art. Cave
View of the Judaean Desert, Holy Land. Date: 1920s
Steppe / Horsfields Tortoises graze (Agrionemys horsfieldii). near Karahoudan village - foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Testudo - Spring - April
Sand Dunes of a desert. Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town - Turkmenistan. April
Sand Dunes of Karakum desert - meet sea at Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town. Turkmenistan. April
Kopetdag Mountains Range - a view into Karakum desert from mountains. Turkmenistan. Spring - April
Karakum Desert - sand dunes - encroaching on Caspian sea - near Krasnovodsk town. Turkmenistan
Grass Snake - in sand dunes - near Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town (Natrix natrix). Turkmenistan
Agama / Agamid Lizard - camouflaged by sand pattern on its back (Agamidae sp.). sand dunes of Central Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Flowering parasitic plants - sand dunes of Central Karakum desert - spring (Orobanchaceae sp.). Kopetdag mountains on horizon - Turkmenistan - April
Toad - in sand dunes of Central Karakum desert at night (Bufo sp.). Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Toad - at night - sand dunes of Central Karakum desert (Bufo sp.). Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Darkling Beetle - runs for a cover after feeding at dawn (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Central Karacum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Darkling Beetle - crosses tracks of other similar beetles (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - March
Weevil beetle - on dry branch of a Saxaul bush - Central Karakum desert (Curculionidae sp.). Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Ground Beetle - sand dunes of Central Karakum desert (Scarites sp.). Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Cockchafer Beetle (close relative of May bug) - adult female - at night (Chioneosoma komarovi ). Central Karakum desert - hides in Saxaul bush during mating period - waiting for a male to come flying
Toadheaded Agamid Lizard - uses its camouflage colouring to hide - presses itself into the sand (Phrynocephalus mistaceus). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Darkling Beetle - in the evening (Sternodes caspicus Pallas). Turkmenistan - Central Karakum Desert - Spring - April
Darkling Beetle - emerges from day shelter in sand where he buries itself to escape heat of the day (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - March
Agama / Agamid Lizard - sand dunes of Karakum desert (Agamidae sp.). Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Darkling Beetle - runs in sand dunes of Karakum desert in the evening (Sternodes caspicus Pallas). Turkmenistan - Central Karakum Desert - Spring - April
Owlet moth caterpillar - in a bush at night feeding on bush foliage (Noctuidae sp.). Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Weevil - on Tamarisk (Tamaricaceae sp. ) beetleWeevil - on Tamarisk (Tamaricaceae sp.) beetle feeds on tamarisk plant (Curculionidae sp.). near Karakum canal - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Saxaul Trees - on wind-shaped sand dunes (Haloxylon sp.). Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Darkling Beetle - along with various prints left on sand after night activity of beetles, lizards and jerboa (Sympiezocnemis gigantea)
Saxaul trees and a mixture of other trees and bushes - on wind-shaped sand dune (Haloxylon sp.). Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Sand dunes in a wind - Karakum desert encroach on a road. near Kumdag - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April
White Saxaul trees - on sand dunes with tracks of insects - track in foreground ends with a small sand bump where a large darkling beetle has hidden itself during the day heat (Haloxylon persicum)
Darkling Beetle - feeds on plants near Karakum water-canal (Blaps sp.). Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Dromedary / Arabian / One-humped Camel - after bathing in muddy puddle (Camelus dromedarius). in desert landscape near Nibetdag - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Railway Ashgabad - Krasnovodsk - in desert landscape along the Kopet-Dag mountains. a major transport artery in Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April
Over-dried soil with cristallized salt on its surface - typical salinated desert soil near Kumdag. Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April
A typical oil-pump - oil-well in a desert. near Kumdag - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April
Wooden wedges are used to fix a leakage - an old pipe-line carrying chemicals. desert near Kumdag -Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April
Road-side monument for a car-accident victim (usually the driver) - typical shape in Turkmenistan. Ashgabad-Krasnovodsk motorway - Turkmenistan former CIS - Spring - April
A typical oil-pump on an oil-well with a puddle of oil - in a desert near Kumdag. typical in Turkmenistan former CIS - Spring - April
Dromedary Camel / Arabian Camel / One-humped Camel - Turkmen old man in fur-hut - with a boy following him - pulls a one-humped Dromedary Camel - with a young camel following along a road near Kumdag
An old rusty pipe-line - carrying extracted iodine chemicals - in a desert near Kumdag. Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April
Flowering parasitic plant - in sand dunes of Karakum desert - Kopetdag mountains in the haze on background (Orobanchaceae sp.). Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April
Desert Elephants - Family fInding shade (Loxodonta africana). Kaokoland - Namibia - Africa
Desert Elephant (Loxodonta africana). Kaokoland Namibia - Africa
Tamarix trees in a small valley. Arabian desert approx. 50 km from Hurghada town
A beetle - runs in sand while feeding in Arabian desert in early morning (Adesmia spp). approx. 50 km from Hurghada town, Egypt
Egypt - typical midday scene with Acacia trees in Arabian desert. approx. 50 km from Hurghada town
