Black Desert

The Black Desert is filled with volcano-shaped and widely spaced mounds, distributed along about 30 km in western Egypt between the White Desert in the south and the Bahariya Oasis in the north. Most of its mounds are capped by basalt sills, giving them the characteristic black color. These volcano-like mounds can reach up to heights of 100 meters which are believed to have formed 180 million years ago. Being completely uninhabited the dessert looks like it is coming from a Star Wars scene.