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Most of the Sahara isn't sand

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If you came looking for endless romantic dunes, you're mostly out of luck. Seventy-five percent of this terrifying wasteland is actually just painfully flat, brutally hard gravel and exposed rocky plateaus.

Most of the Sahara isn't sand
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