Drylands: Selected Tourist Attractions
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What are some specific tourist attractions in drylands? This map plots selected tourist attractions by region and by dryland countries. The map is not comprehensive but does point out major features in certain dryland areas which attract tourists. Examples include features from 8 countries: Kuwait for plant and animal life and Bedouin camel herds; Morocco for desert oases and Mediterranean beaches; Tunisia for date palm oases, saline lakes, and camel riding; Botswana for the Okavango Delta, birding, and big game viewing; Burkina Faso for landscape photography, clear springs, and waterfalls; Gambia for the Guinea savanna landscape and birding; Namibia for large sandunes and wildlife safaris; and Senegal for palm-fringed, white sandy beaches.
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Citation:
WRI. 2002. World Resources Institute. Drylands, People, and Ecosystem Goods and Services: A Web-based Geospatial Analysis. Available online at: http://www.wri.org
Sources:
- United Nations Environment Program/Global Resource Information Database. Prepared by U. Diechmann and L. Eklundh. 1991, Global Digital Datasets for Land Degradation Studies: a GIS Approach. Nairobi, Kenya:UNEP/GEMS and GRID.