The Sahara’s most beautiful portion is the Ténéré desert of Niger, an endless-seeming field of dunes the size of Germany. Here courtly Tuareg tribesmen size you up like the rakish pirates of this sand sea they are.—Donovan Webster, writer and Sahara veteran

Explore the Sahara with writer William Langewiesche in the October 1999 issue of TRAVELER.

LEARN MORE

AfricaNet.com
http://www.africanet.com
Search this site’s comprehensive listings for information about the Sahara countries—Mauritania, Algeria, Niger, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Mali, Chad, and Sudan.

Arab Net
http://www.arab.net
Doing a search for “Sahara” on this page will call up a variety of links, which focus primarily on the history of the area.

Sahara Crosser’s Corner
http://www.eden-foundation.org/sahara/index.html
This concise, practical site discusses equipment, road conditions, and offers important advice for travelers planning to cross the desert.

Travel & Tourism Guide to Tunisia
http://www.tourismtunisia.com
The Sahara covers a large portion of Tunisia. This tourism-oriented guide to North Africa’s smallest country offers information about the culture as well as lists of hotels, restaurants, and activities.

Tunisia Online
http://www.tunisiaonline.com
Find information on a wide variety of Tunisian topics.

Don’t Shoot!: On Location in the Sahara
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
voices/weekly/weekly12.html
Dodge bullets with a National Geographic TV crew and paleontologist Paul Sereno.