The dusty roads into the city pass miles of slums.
Nor, nowadays, are they the colourful nomads of yore, drawing decorated caravans down dusty roads.
It was an oven-hot day, and many competitors struggled to breathe on the dusty roads.
Electric-yellow houses dot desertlike stretches, and cactuses along the dusty roads resemble grand pipe cleaners.
Fleeing fighters faced innumerable obstacles - not least Afghanistan's appallingly potholed and dusty roads.
Indigenous Nukak-Makú nomads, uprooted from their lands, wander up and down dusty roads in San José, begging for food.
On Tuesday, two clowns in baggy checkered pants walked the dusty roads with giggling children in tow.
According to family lore, she travelled many hours by bus over hot, dusty roads to accomplish the mission.
Drilling rigs and pumping equipment pepper the landscape, and enormous trucks carrying oil field supplies rumble down narrow, dusty roads.
The same dusty hills are now littered with a forest of wells, with gleaming pipes running along dusty roads.
In the ramshackle apartment blocks and sooty concrete homes that line the dusty roads of urban India, there is a new status symbol on proud display.
