Rub al-Khali desert

It is not easy to pass through it, nor to get out of it. It is like a maze, its secrets are known only to its children who were born from the womb of its sand. It embraces a harsh sun. It is a deceptive sandy kingdom. It can enchant onlookers, create oases and trees for them, and then bring them back thirsty. It is: “the desert of the Empty Quarter” or the desert of Al-Ahqaf, a desert. It has no features or terrain. All it has are orange-coloured moving sand dunes that rise to about 300 metres, and some salt flats. It is located in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula, and occupies the southern quarter of it. It is the largest continuous sand desert in the world. ▪️ Its area is about 647,500 km², its length is more than 1,000 km, and its width is about 500 km. ▪️It extends over parts of 4 sister countries: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Sultanate of Oman, and Saudi Arabia owns the largest part of this desert. It is no longer empty, as its name indicates, as the centers and stations of the Oil and Gas Company are spread over it, and planes roam its skies and cars roam its lands in search of its mineral reserves. It contains huge wealth of oil, natural gas, radioactive minerals, glass sand, and solar energy. It includes the world's largest conventional oil field, "Al-Ghawar", east of the Saudi city of Riyadh. ▪️The first documented trip to the Empty Quarter was in 1931 AD, by the English traveler *Bertram Thomas*. 🎥 The picture is not like all the pictures because it is an unusual pattern of dot-shaped sand dunes, migrating across the plains of Wadi Hazar in the Yemeni part 🇾🇪 of the Empty Quarter.