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The Sahara dessert, the largest desert in the world, finally has a gallery on my website. The Sahara is only slightly smaller than Europe and almost 29 times larger than Poland! Contrary to popular belief, the Sahara is not just an area of sandy dunes. Such an image is always presented to us when we are shown photographs of the Sahara. However, only a small part of it is as sandy as shown in the media, without plants with wind-blown sand. The rest is stony or gravelly terrain with sparse vegetation. I can understand the authors posting such pictures, showing sandy desert areas, because these are very different, distinct and beautiful images of the desert. The light at sunrise and at sunset paints beautiful pictures in front of the mani, which you won't observe on gravel flat surfaces. So, a little commercially I built my gallery showing traditional sandy frames, filled with sun, warm colours, sand dunes and the light refracting on them. An amazing spectacle that needed to be captured. For now, it is illustrated by the first 36 photos in this gallery. But, in order to reflect how diverse the Sahara is, I have added another 24 photographs, which are less interesting. Here you can see the mundanity of life and there is nothing of the fascination of shapes, colours, except the terrifying, vast expanses scorched by the sun. I also need to mention that I saw only a tiny part of this largest desert in the world, but one that well represents the whole picture of the Sahara. I checked on a satellite map and those immortalised beautiful sandy areas at the beginning of the gallery are actually a large sand dune, about 5 kilometres wide and 20 kilometres long. It is surrounded by stony, gravelly areas. We actually went there for the Desert Sparrow, which we managed to observe and, of course, take photos of to create a gallery of this beautiful bird on my website.