We enter the desert on the other side of the road...

The terrain here was much sandier, and the rocks much bigger.

More of the sandy landscape.

Our second campsite, by morning's light.

Our breakfast feast to begin our last day in the desert. For this special feast, Shaban made us special pita bread that he baked in the sand (essentially, he kneaded together flour and water and then threw it on the fire in the sand). Amazingly, it was some of the best bread I have ever eaten.

This part of the desert was full of huge rocks and canyons.

More of the canyons...

The big rocks of this part of the desert.

Sand dune and sky.

Amy and the sand.

A shadowy enclave under a rock.

Shaban and Amy check out our final camping site.

We noticed that, across the way, there was another group setting up camp. It turned out to be one of Shaban's guide friends with two Swiss people who were making the trek by camel. We decided to walk over to say hello.

Dinner time for the camels.

Shaban and the camels.

The camel campers, with our jeep off in the distance. (It's parked at the site that would become our final camping spot.)

We decided to walk through this canyon to see if there was a good place to watch the sunset on the other side....

An amazing valley of rocks awaited us on the other side.

Jeep tracks in the desert.

Amy, on the side of the sandy mountain where we watched the sunset.

Me, on the side of the sandy mountain.

A pile of rocks that Amy and I created on top of another rock to leave our mark on the Sahara Desert.

It's so sad because this was one of the most incredible sunsets I have ever seen, and this picture just completely fails to do it justice :-(