Welcome to the second annual GSS Desert Week! In time-honoured tradition, we’ll mostly be posting about deserts. For about a week! The Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, is renowned across the US for exhibits like the…

Welcome to the second annual GSS Desert Week! In time-honoured tradition, we’ll mostly be posting about deserts. For about a week! Even by Saharan standards, the Ténéré region of northern Niger is pretty desolate: a vast…

Following on from the resounding success1 of 2008's first annual Google Sightseeing Desert Week, this week we're running with the theme all over again, astoundingly, exactly a year since last time! We've got a plethora of…

And so, we come to end of our first ever desert week. It turns out that we only featured two actual deserts over the week, and we even failed to mention the world's largest desert! Despite…

We’re continuing the first annual GSS Desert Week! We’re mostly posting about deserts and it’s lasting about a week! The Atacama Desert is a virtually rainless plateau in Chile, South America. Made up of salt basins,…

We’re continuing the first annual GSS Desert Week! We’re mostly posting about deserts and it's lasting about a week! The 40 acre Desert of Maine is located in a pine forest near the town of Freeport.…