SAHARA

الصحراء الكبرى, "The Great Desert"

The Sahara is the biggest desert of the world, and is the world’s largest hot desert, with 9.065.000 km² of surface. Is localizated in North Africa. The name is from the arab sahara صحراء the traduction of the word is tuareg of Tenere, and that means desert. The Sahara covers, ArgeLia, Túnez, Marruecos, Sahara Occidental, Mauritania, Níger, Libia, Egipto y Chad, but the Sahara is moving always so maybe sometimes it’s isn’t in those countries. The dunes beguns very close of Alto atLas.
The composition is grave, sand and dunes. Three quarters of the desert is grave, and the other quarter is sand and dunes. In the Sahara has snowed once, the 18 of Frebuary og 1979. In south Argelia, in the nigth. The Sahara has 2.5 million years. You can visit the Sahara in 4wheeldrive, in dromedary or walking.

Credits : wikipedia