Today's #WesternSahara photo. There may be more. Fossil sand ripples, Wadi Erni, Northern Sector. 
Enigmatic rock engravings, Wadi Erni. Similar to some I've been looking at today from the Canary Islands, but then, we know there was a link. I like to think the one of the right is a comet. But that's based on nothing except my fevered imagination.
The desert is far from barren. Something lives here, at Bou Dheir, #WesternSahara, Free Zone, Northern Sector.
Some of the fauna are still there, but not the giraffe, rendered here in dots, nor the people who decorated the Bou Dheir rock shelter with these handprints. But these leave a movingly intimate legacy.
This was a nice spot to stop for tea, and to look at this 'complex monument', a type of stone structure with a line of upright flat stones, behind which is a low tumulus and rectangular enclosure.
Remains of a corbeille or basket-type monument at the edge of the dune sea of the Erg Azefal, east of Zoug. In Libya these have been associated with cattle burials. Was getting blowy, with a sand storm on the way, so we couldn't stay out long.
Getting very hazy here. In a dust storm, the universe shrinks to almost nothing.
Some of the landscapes in #WesternSahara are incredibly bleak in their majesty.
But you can look out on them from places like this, which are vital oases of life, even today. This is one of my favourite spots on this entire planet.
In the morning, you can look out over the desert mist.
And at night, swap stories round the fire, eat, have more tea, then sleep on the ground under the stars. If it's cold, bury some embers from the fire in the sand under your bed.
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