The desert is not only sweeping barchan and ochre sand.
Indeed this is the exception.
The Hamada or stony desert makes up most of the Sahara and here it is called the Reg.
This dark, flat ecology is beyond sparse. It is a zen landscape of savage minimalism.
In this fearsome place life is largely absent and humans enter only with the greatest care.
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