Pico Iyer’s biggest holiday challenge used to be ‘filling the days till they burst’. But nine days in the desert of Namibia with nothing much to do was a liberating experience
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I’ll sleep on dunes under the stars’: writer Ben Love on Denmark’s beautiful coast
With 7,000km of coastline you can always find an empty beach in Denmark, as well as bike routes, Viking history and delicious food along its shores
Trekking Iran’s Lut desert: a wild, remote adventure – in pictures
Iran’s Dasht-e Lut with its giant dunes, salt plains and kaluts provides an epic journey of breathtaking beauty and wilderness, as seen in these images from a 15-day trek with Secret Compass
Snow in the Sahara – in pictures
Red dunes turn white as record snowfall blankets desert near town of Aïn Séfra in Algeria
Top 10 national and state parks in Oregon
Oregon has only one national park but is by no means lacking in scenery. With 360 miles of public beach, gorges, wild rivers, forested peaks and fossil-rich desert, the state is packed with natural wonders http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/16/top-10-national-parks-state-parks-oregon-usa