Grand Dune

The locals call it La Grand Dune, or in English; The Grand Dune. It's located just a few kilometers west of Nefta and a few meters from Cafe des Dunes. It's famous among locas for beeing the deffenet biggest dune in the area, and became famous among Star Wars fans for beeing featured in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as R2-D2 and C-3PO crash land in the Dune Sea on Tatooine and later a few stormtrooper find traces of theyre crash. Note that the stormtrooper sequens was extended in the Special Edition with shots from Yuma Desert.

Links

 * Lionel Noetzlin escription of his travel
 * Pamela Green and Gus Lopez description of theyr travel