Deserts are places that have been created from extreme weather of little or no water. Without water everything dies, or does it? There actually is a lot of life in a desert, it’s just not as apparent as it is in other places. You just need to look a little closer to find life in the desert.
I feel the same way about learning to appreciate the beauty of a desert. On the surface deserts are not very attractive but there is much more to see in a desert when we look a little closer.
The posts that will be shown under this category are the deserts that I have seen in my travels. I hope that you will enjoy my posts on these deserts and that I will be able to show them in a way that will illustrate what makes them such amazing places.
Some dunes at White Sand National Park move up to 30 feet per year. White Sands National Park is located in the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, about 50 miles east of Las Cruses, New Mexico. This bright white desert is the largest gypsum dune field in the world and it covers approximately 275…
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The Arabian Desert is the second largest desert on earth, surpassed in size only by the Sahara Desert in northern Africa. The desert occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula covering an area of approximately 900,000 square miles which is over four times the area of France. The Arabian Desert covers almost all of Saudi Arabia…
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Little Sahara sand dunes are an incredible white sand dune system that covers over two square kilometres on Kangaroo Island, Australia. The Little Sahara dunes are naturally occurring along the coast with the highest peaks reaching 70 meters above sea level. There is some vegetation growing in the sand which is good because it helps…
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When most people think of Vietnam, they have visions of rice fields and tropical jungles but Vietnam has an amazing diversity of climates and one of the least expected is that Vietnam actually has a desert with large sand dunes. There are actually two types of sand dunes at Mui Ne, the red sand dunes…
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