Kalahari Desert, Extending from Botswana into areas of South Africa and Namibia, the Kalahari Desert's 900,000 sq km area is unusually diverse in climatic and physical features.

After spotting the odd-looking site deep in the Taklamakan desert people think they've uncovered a hidden Chinese rocket, although others believe there's a much simpler explanation ...

A traveller’s search for a route around western China's Lop Desert, in 1995, meant bartering for rides and avoiding rip-off merchants in towns with such evocative names as ‘Asbestos Deposit’.