The dunes hold the night's cold a little longer.
This is a single invented dune sea at four hours of one day - not a map of one place, and not a travel guide. The Sahara spans eleven countries; its dunes, stone plateaus and gravel plains would take lifetimes to cross.
Drag the sand to look all the way around. Arrow keys look around too. Choose an hour below, or swipe within its navigation strip. Tap the caravan, the sandfish or the fennec - or follow the invitation beneath each scene. Escape closes these notes.
Sources for the small facts: Britannica on the Sahara's landforms, NASA Earth Observatory on Saharan dust, National Geographic on the fennec fox. Original procedural artwork. No tracking. Sound starts only when you ask.
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