Erg Selima

The sands of Selima spread across the arid country between the Nile and the heart of the Sahara. Fine sand covers broad plains, interrupted by widely separated dunes and large wind-shaped ripples. This immense sand sheet stretches from northern Sudan into southern Egypt, a landscape almost without surface water. To its east, the wells of Selima offered caravans a precious halt on the desert road between Darfur and Egypt.