Namibia
DifficultSkeleton Coast Ugab River Mouth to Brandberg — Damaraland Volcanic Desert Track
Skeleton Coast fog to Africa's granite giant.
Surface: Sand
USA
ModerateEscalante Hole-in-the-Rock Road — Escalante to Lake Powell via the Grand Staircase Slickrock Corridor
Mormon pioneer slickrock — 1879 grit, still no easy way.
Algeria
ExtremePiste de l’Erg Iguidi — Tindouf to Bir Mogreïn via the Erg Iguidi Sand Sea
Five hundred kilometres of Saharan sand with no help coming.
Botswana
ModerateGibb River Road — Derby to Kununurra via the Kimberley Gorge Country (Dry Season Classic, Full Traverse, Alternate Entry)
120km of fossilised riverbed and lion country.
Afghanistan
ExtremeWakhan Corridor Road — Faizabad to Ishkashim via Kokcha River Valley
The last real Silk Road. No safety net.
Algeria
ExtremePiste de Gao — Tamanrasset to Agadez via the Trans-Saharan Desert Corridor
Six centuries of caravans. Zero guarantees.
Australia
ExtremeGibb River Road — Derby to Kununurra via the Kimberley Gorge Country (Wet Season Closed)
1,100 dunes. No shade. No mercy.
Algeria
ExtremePiste du Hoggar Ouest — Tamanrasset to In Salah via the Atakor Volcanic Plateau Western Descent
The Sahara's western descent — unforgiving and vast.
Kenya
ExpertTurkana Jade Sea Road — Loiyangalani to North Horr via the Chalbi Desert Fringe
Jade lake to salt flat — East Africa at its rawest.
Chad
ExtremePiste du Djourab — N’Djamena to Faya-Largeau via the Djourab Fossil Erg
A thousand clicks of Sahara and zero backup.