(Originally posted on MySpace)
One of the most unusual places I have been to lies in Sudan. Near the city of Dongola, which is on the banks of the Nile, there is a stretch of desert which is entirely covered in flat, pinkish pebbles.
The area is not flat, it consists of small, rounded hills, all roughly the same size. The pebbles look very neat, as if someone laid them out one by one and then used fine sand to fill in the spaces between. So they're embedded in the sand without being covered by it.
There are some tracks but they are hardly visible because the surface looks the same wherever you go. You don't need them either, because the terrain is very easy to ride through. It's almost like riding on tarmac.
The hills (pebble dunes, you could call them) just go on and on, and you just ride up and down all the time. Pinkish pebbles as far as you can see.

 The scenery looks almost artificial because it's so uniform.