Travel Videos 365 - BETA version 1.02

Desert Blues, a music project with Habib Koité, Afel Bocoum and the Tuareg-Women-Ensemble Tartit from Timbuktu. All this musicians are poets and play the traditional instruments like Tinde, Tehardant, Balafon, Imzad -- but also electric guitars.

China's Yellow River is drying up, vast grassland is turning into desert. Shocking images. Halong Glaciers in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the source of China's Yellow River, have shrunk by 17% during the past 30 years. This could leave the region without glaciers by the end of the century and is an alarming sign of.... more

I-40 begins in Barstow & follows some of Route 66 through the Mojave Desert. Along the route is Newberry Springs, most don't take much notice of the 117 sq mile community, at least not until 1988 with the release of the film "Bagdad Cafe". Now, people travel from all over the globe to sit & enjoy a.... more

Photographs by Terry E. Morales, www.terrymorales.com, from her trip to Morocco and the Sahara Desert. I mixed the music, including playing the bansuri, and put together the video.

Chinguetti la bibliothèque du désert Chinguetti (Arabic: شنقيط) is a ksour or ancient trading centre in northern Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau east of Atar. Founded in the 13th century, as the center of several trans-Saharan trade routes, this small threatened city continues to attract visitors who.... more

This is a short documentary of our trek for ten days into the Thar Desert from Jaisalmer, an ancient city in Rajasthan, India. With just three camels; Papu, Lalu, and Babaloo and our trusted guide Rhman, we set out with all the food and water necessary for the foray. We trekked about 20 km per day going 7 to 8 hours.... more

David Attenborough narrates the spectacular scenery of southern Africa's Namib Desert in Namibia. Truly amazing wild beauty - sand dunes created by the winds from the Atlantic ocean. From BBC.

The Libyan Desert, which covers much of eastern Libya, is one of the most arid places on earth. In places, decades may pass without rain, and even in the highlands rainfall happens erratically, once every 5--10 years. At Uweinat, the last recorded rainfall was in September 1998. There is a large depression, the.... more

The Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia is known as Shamo in Chinese. Tourists can reach the edges of the Gobi Desert by tour bus from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.

Desert Blues, a music project with Habib Koité, Afel Bocoum and the Tuareg-Women-Ensemble Tartit from Timbuktu. All this musicians are poets and play the traditional instruments like Tinde, Tehardant, Balafon, Imzad -- but also electric guitars.