' Do you know that ' Sahara ' is Arabic word which means desert ?' asked Pan as they drove through the sand-covered plateau . They had landed at the edge of the desert in Morocco,near the Erg Chebbi sand dune, the highest of many dunes that cover about fifteen percent of the Sahara . As agreed,Jojo and Coco had come to pick them up with the four by four drive armoured vehicle . The advance team had already set up camp and were busy observing the site which was about two hundred metres away .
' Why Arabic ?'
' History has it that several thousand years ago, the Arabs from the Middle East crossed this region from the north to the west for trading activities . Because the place lacked water,they called it Sahrà, which was subsequently written as Sahara . Trade routes were developed that con
