November

Desert Trek

A wonderful trek into the heart of the Sahara Desert, where you can expect to see a varied landscape of draw dropping beauty. It'll be hot, it'll be dry, it'll be sandy but it will be awesome! The Sahara desert remains one of the last true areas of wilderness and trekking through this vast sea of sand and rock is a truly unique experience. One of the hottest, driest and most inhospitable places on earth the Sahara covers a vast area that is larger than the entire United States.

An adventure not for the feint hearted the summer temperatures in the shade at midday can exceed 50°c and plummet to almost freezing at night. The rainfall rarely exceeds four inches a year, but when it rains, it rains in torrents, washing all before it.

This adventure will allow you to discover a landscape of awe-inspiring beauty, from the great sand dunes to the arid, boulder strewn plains where ceaseless winds and furious sandstorms have whittled the rock into bizarre sculptures. There are high rocky plateaux, dried up riverbeds, oases fringed with the date palms and acacia, shadowy canyons and mountains touched with snow.

Our trek route has been designed to show as much of the varied landscape of the Sahara as possible. It takes us well away from the established travel routes and along a trade route that is still used by the nomadic Berber and Toureg tribesmen, whom we hope to encounter during our journey.

The Trek takes place from 3 to 10 November 2012