1. The White Desert, in Egypt
The White Desert, also known as Farafra, is located in Northern Farafra Oasis, about 570 km from the Egyptian capital Cairo, with an area of about 3,010 km2. The location of this desert area was formerly the sea, after the sea receded, the shells remained and the rocky outcrops, over time they were eroded to create a unique scene like today. In other words, this place was formed from the Cretaceous period. With the white color of the sand dunes and the giant natural stone works, this place attracts many Egyptian tourists to visit every year.
If the Sahara desert is famous for its year-round sunshine, wind and sandstorm, the Egyptian White Desert attracts visitors by a strangely elegant white color. Even the sand has a pure white color, as smooth as snow.
What guarantees you
will find it extremely interesting when you come here is that in each time,
each different area, the sand also has a different color: sometimes as pure as
cotton, sometimes with a gentle cream color, then sometimes it suddenly turns
golden brown glitter. Some rocks look like mushrooms, some look like umbrellas,
and others look like giant spears…Meanwhile, the same rocks look like a bird in
one direction, look in the other direction. like a rabbit, a chick or a
kneeling camel… That's why it keeps urging your feet to go around and around to
visit. The multi-shaped stones gradually change color: sometimes light pink,
sometimes red, sometimes a little faint purple, then you will have to suddenly
say that "heaven is here, right?" where".
2. The largest desert in China - Taklamakan
Taklamakan is known as the largest desert in China with an area of about 337,000 square kilometers. This place has great beauty when viewed from above.The name “Takla Makan” – means “once you enter there is no way back”. This vast land is also known as the "Dead Sea".
The Taklamakan Desert is a dangerous place with complex terrain and extreme weather. However, this place played an extremely important role in Eurasian trade. The oases on two routes around the desert were important trading points on the Silk Road.The Taklamakan Desert covers an area of 270,000 square kilometers of the Tarim Basin, about 1,000 kilometers long and about 420 kilometers wide. This area is bordered by the Thien Son mountain range to the north, the Kunlun range along the southern edge, and the Pamir range to the west.
Taklamakan is a model
of a cold desert. Due to the proximity of the cold air mass in Siberia, the
lowest temperature ever recorded here is -20 degrees Celsius. This place has no
natural water source, so visitors will be in danger without a guide.
Now crossing one of the largest and most dangerous deserts in the world is becoming easier thanks to the railway line that surrounds Taklamakan. However, this work often suffers from big sandstorms, which seriously threatens the construction and operation of the railway.
One of the most important stops on the Taklamakan desert railway is the oasis city of Kashgar - one of the most important oases on the Silk Road. Kashgar has more than 350,000 multi-racial inhabitants, with a history of more than 2,000 years. The city is located in western China, between the Taklamakan desert and land borders with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.
3. Namibian Desert
Standing on top of one of the tallest sand dunes on Earth, it feels as if the sand beneath our feet stretches to infinity. With endless stretches of red sand dunes, the Namib is the oldest desert in the world - a sea of sand that stretches along the entire Atlantic coast of Namibia.
The Namib Desert is one of the top tourist destinations in Namibia, a must-see on any trip to this fascinating part of South Africa.
The red sand dunes of the Namibian desert are emblematic of a Namibian nation, and the famous Sossusvlei Dune region of the arid desert is especially loved for its towering orange-red sand dunes. Some of the tallest sand dunes in the world are found in the Sossusvlei area, one of the top tourist attractions in the Namib Desert. Some of Sossusvlei's tallest sand dunes, created by the wind, reach over 300m high. Another attraction of the Namib Desert is the Sesriem Gorge, a deep gorge formed by the Tsauchab River about 2 million years ago. Namibia's Namib Desert is an ideal place to experience the vastness of Africa's desert landscape, soaking up a peace and quiet unlike anywhere else on earth.
The Namib Desert
stretches from the northern Cape Province of South Africa along the Atlantic
coast of Namibia and northward into southern Angola. This ancient desert,
located between the Atlantic Ocean and the cliffs of the Namibian Inland
Plateau, stretches about 1,300 km in length and ranges from 50 to 160 km in
width. It has an arid area of about 81 000km², which means that this
fascinating and inhospitable desert is about the size of Switzerland.
4. Explore Gobi - the largest desert in Asia
Gobi is known as one of the largest deserts in the world and the largest desert in Asia. It is also the heart of Mongolia - attracting a large number of tourists every year. Many people think that not visiting Gobi is like not coming to Mongolia, let's explore the beautiful scenery of nature here with us.
Many tourists, this place is indeed a very interesting tourist destination with many new and attractive things. In the Gobi desert, people even found dinosaur eggs for the first time. There are not only vast sand dunes with extremely fine sand beaches, but in the Gobi desert, you can also see beautiful oases with a unique crescent-shaped lake formed from a unique underground water source. Coming here, you will have the opportunity to explore the wild nature around you such as the black-tailed Gazen antelope, diamond-cut ferrets, camels and even if you are lucky, you can also encounter snow leopard, brown bear. and even wolves. The Gobi Desert is also home to many vestiges of the past with beautiful caves and fossils of many prehistoric animals, dinosaur eggs and many prehistoric stone tools dating back to the past. up to hundreds of thousands of years old.
5. Sahara Desert
In the Sahara, the rainfall is very low compared to other parts of the world, the average annual rainfall in the Sahara is only 25mm and in the East of the Sahara it is only 5mm. In particular, the rain here is not in the form of particles falling directly to the ground, but it exists in the form of fog due to the sudden temperature change between the temperature of the day and the temperature of the night.
The word Sahara in Arabic means Great Desert, there are many outstanding features that give this special name. The Sahara desert is like giant sand dunes, with rivers and streams, rocky plateaus, arid valleys, many verdant oases and diverse flora and fauna and reptiles.
The Sahara Desert covers an area of more than 9 million square kilometers, roughly the size of the United States and China. The desert covers most of North Africa, covering large areas of 12 countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Mali, Eritrea, Niger, Sudan, Tunisa, Western Sahara. Scientists discovered that the Sahara desert is expanding. Since 1962, this desert has expanded by nearly 650,000 square kilometers.
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