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They say that one is put through a sobering test of what can only just be described as an existential problems when traversing the golden and seemingly infinite surfaces of the Sahara Desert. If one climbed any of the many sand dunes and twirled around in a location, particularly under the starlit sky, they would scarcely have the ability to tell east from western world with out a compass, for there would be nothing but dizzying carpets of indistinguishable sand hills unfurling into the distant horizon. Challenging thoughts of purpose and self-worth apart, people luckily enough to go to this sandy wonderland with a heavy-duty SUV, or more traditionally a hired camel caravan, are cured to a breathtaking eyesight. The wave-like ripples caressing the stunning assortment of irregularly shaped fine sand dunes, some hardly half a history and others close to 600 feet in height, are as unique as the etchings on one's fingertips. To some, they are Mother Nature's stretchmarks. To others, the wind-prompted patterns might conjure up a graphic of the god with a rake at hand, whistling carelessly and combing through the gritty grains of fine sand, as one would with a small zen garden to melt away their stresses. It is simple to see why people might feel helplessly small and insignificant, particularly when thrust into and lost in such a hauntingly beautiful, but perilous and evidently fathomless panorama. The smattering of flora and fauna stingily peppered throughout the tremendous slab of barren land would do little to pacify a fluttering abdominal. Moreover, a relatively menacing, monotonous drone pierces the silence, emitted by the vibrations of the fine sand grains cascading down the dunes. The music artists behind these dreary music are none other than the storage compartments of wind flow massaging these mountains of fine sand, and the peculiar phenomenon, evocative of the chorus of crying conch shells or a buzzing colony of incandescent bees, delivers a tickle down one's vertebrae.
