The sand dune desert in Lemnos, Greece (Image: Getty) There is a beautiful little Greek island that sees barely any tourists but looks the spitting image of the Sahara Desert . Lemnos is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It has a population of over 16,000 people and is primarily flat.

But in the north of the island is a desert -like spot that makes Lemnos unlike anywhere else in Greece - called the ‘Thick Sands’ by locals. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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If the wind is strong en.