Morocco - Merzouga, Erg Chebbi

Erg Chebbi is one of Morocco's two Saharan ergs (large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand). The dunes stretch about 30 kilometers from north to south and are between 5 ands 10 kilometers wide. They rise dramatically from a surrounding pancake flat of black hamada (a barren hard rocky plateau) up to a height of more than 100 meters.

We visited Erg Chebbi during a camel ride (PiP 1) from our hotel to one of the dunes (PiP 2), where we were waiting in the descending sun on the play of light and shadow (PiP 3) and the constantly changing colours of the Sahara sand into a warm orange colour (main picture), which is one of the features of Erg Chebbi.