Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. For under $30 per person you can slide down epic sand dunes in Huacachina, Peru. Story and editing by Jeremy Dreyfuss Follow INSIDER Travel on Facebook Follow ...

The north coast of Peru is an environment of extremes ... Just a few decades later, however, historic records describe sand dunes and scrublands invading the green valleys, water shortages ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple and human skeletal remains beneath a sand dune in the Zaña district of northwestern Peru. The site is part of the Los ...

The Peru-German archaeological initiative has explored ... Cerro Blanco, among the tallest sand dunes in the world, rises pale and stark out of the surrounding bowl of sere Andean foothills ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

The difference is a matter of size: ripples are small ridges of sand with a height (amplitude) typically less than 4 cm and wave lengths (crest to crest) less than 60 cm, while dunes have the same ...