World’s
10 most fascinating deserts: snow-covered desert, desert with salt
lakes, world’s largest salt-lake desert, desert with salt lakes, white
desert,driest desert, desert with elephants, red desert, black stone
desert, world’s driest but most humid desert and largest desert in the
world.
1. Taklamakan Desert (Xinjiang, China), the snow-covered desert
Taklamakan
is one of the largest sand deserts in the world. In 2008, a heavy
11-day snow covered the desert and transformed it into a white world.
2. Lencois Maranhenses National Park (Brazil), the desert with salt lakes
Lencois Maranhenses National Park
Lencois Maranhenses National Park
Every
year from July to September, heavy rainfall creates thousands of ponds
in the desert. The white sand dunes mixed with blue lakes will leave you
wondering if you’re in a desert or by the sea
3. Uyuni Desert (Bolivia), the world’s largest salt-lake desert
As
the world’s largest salt lake, Uyuni has 65 billion tons of salt, with
many salt beds spanning more than 10 meters. The surface of the lake
reflects the sun’s light like a mirror, and the body of the lake is
colorful because of the mineral deposits at the bottom. But with an
altitude of 3,700 meters and 10,000 square kilometers of uninhabited
lake area, it can be difficult to reach it.
4. Farfara Desert (Egypt), the white desert
In contrast to the yellow deserts in most other places, this desert 45 kilometers north of Farafara, Egypt, is a creamy white.
5. Atacama Desert (Chile), the driest desert
According
to the “Guinness Book of World Records”, the Atacama Desert is the
driest in the world. A 400-year drought recorded here lasted from the
late 16th century to 1971.
6. Namib Desert (Namibia), the desert with elephants
Located
on the west coast of South Africa, Namib Desert is considered the
oldest in the world. You can see many animal and plant fossils, dunes
that are up to 300 meters tall, the highest in the world, and, if you’re
lucky, maybe an elephant or two.
7. Simpson Desert (Australia), the red desert
8. Black Desert (Egypt), the black stone desert
Located
in an area formed by volcano eruptions that is just 100 kilometers
northeast of the Farafara white desert, the Black Desert is littered
with small black stones.
9. Antarctica, the world’s driest but most humid desert
The
average rainfall in Antarctica is less than 5 millimeters, but at the
same time, 98 percent of the land is covered with ice and snow. The
result of these extreme weather conditions is dryness, humidity and cold
temperatures that make Antarctica uninhabitable for humans.
10. Sahara, the largest desert in the world
At
over 9 million square kilometers, the Sahara covers most of North
Africa and is home to a number of peoples and languages. The desert
stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts,
to the Atlantic Ocean.