Little known facts about the Sahara desert

Would you like to explore this land of wonder and madness once, where people have to drink bat blood to live?

Today can be terrifyingly hot, the Sahara has always been the cradle of life, enveloping thousands of ancient inhabitants.

Despite the intense sunshine all day, the Sahara today has snow. Although it made people drink bats and urine if they lost their footsteps, the Sahara surprised everyone by the innocence and holiness of sandy cats in the desert.

Do you want to try once to discover both the wonders and the madness of this planet's largest desert?

1. Sahara desert is also green

According to geological studies, about 12,000 years ago, a few prehistoric people had to temporarily take refuge here. The fierce war was the reason they were forced to leave the fertile Nile River Valley, to make a living around the lakes in the arid desert.

The desert is also very fertile.

But as if knowing how to hurt people, about 10,500 years ago, the Sahara received an unusual monsoon. Rain rushed throughout the desert. The land died, the plants sprouted, flowered, and left.

The rain continued to fall steadily throughout the Sahara for the next 5,000 years. Ancient people flocked to each other, knew breeding, cultivation, and booming.

But nature is an erratic girl. After 5,000 years of fun with humans, the Sahara suddenly turned around. The monsoon disappears. Prolonged drought, temperature increased dramatically.

Unable to do anything to please the heart of the Sahara, the ancient people were forced to return to the Nile River Valley. War, looting again exploded, eventually forming a monarchy monarchy headed by the pharaohs.

2. And now there is snow

In 2017, snow once again encircled Ain Sefra.

From the time he turned around to humans more than 5,000 years ago, the Sahara never ceased burning like burning. But in December 2016, it suddenly poured snow and white sky in the desert area in Ain Sefra, Algeria.

In fact, located in relatively high places - about 1,078m above sea level. If it is not in the Sahara, it is normal for it to snow.

Thinking about the snow falling in the desert only came once. Unexpectedly in 2017, snow once again encircled Ain Sefra. This winter is not much anymore. If the snow also followed the winter to Ain Sefra, humanity should probably get used to a new normal concept called "desert snow".

3. Dust storms are thousands of kilometers long

Terrible bouts.

Because the Sahara has so little water, the soil cannot bind. They turn into fine dust. Hot temperatures will create wind, sweeping dust into the air.

Sahara is very large, up to 9,000,000 square kilometers. When a dust storm forms, it can be thousands of kilometers long and continuously for 12 hours.

In May 2011, NASA Space Agency recorded a dust storm of 1,100 km in the Sahara. Just another 500 km is this dust storm long enough to equal the whole S-shaped strip of Vietnamese soil.

4. If you get lost, be prepared to drink bat blood

With such long and long dust storms, you will get lost immediately if you get caught up in it. Despite the danger, the Sahara long distance jogging competitions were held very often.

In 1994, while participating in a six-day marathon across the Sahara, bad luck athlete Mauro Prosperi was removed from the squad. Early drinking water did not have a drop, Prosperi took the non-urine bottle to save.

Mauro Prosperi - athlete who spent 10 days in hell in the Sahara.

While wandering to find the exit, Prosperi was lucky to discover a ruined temple in the desert. In that temple is full of sheltering bats. Immediately, he grabbed a couple of animals, scratched his head, sucked blood.

On the 10th day lost in the desert, Prosperi almost only had a dry corpse. He cut his wrists to kill himself, but the blood was so thick that he could not float.

Thankfully, the rescue team found Prosperi, ending his day of drinking blood, eating raw meat (lizards or desert snakes). Prosperi cried but not because of the joy but because the marathon was over and he was the only one who didn't finish the race.

After a full defeat . warmth, Prosperi constantly participate in the desert ice marathon race. Prosperi's highest record was ranked 12th in 2001.

5. Sell yourself good luck

Even if it is so inconvenient that you get lost in the desert today, you can still hope to be saved by the rescue team. But if it was before then, no one would come to save you. In addition, people still believe that the minorities living in the Sahara desert are cannibals.

In 1815, James Riley's merchant ship (USA) sank near the Sahara coast. Both the captain and the crew frantically swam to the shore. Perhaps it would be better if they temporarily survived on the shore and tried to fix the ship, but, for fear of rumors, had to return to the boat.

Even if it is so inconvenient that you get lost in the desert today, you can still hope to be saved by the rescue team.

After 9 days of sun exposure, misting in the middle of the sea, they could not stand it anymore, they swam to shore. The real hell is now open. An inadvertent slave merchant walked sideways and frayed. Some crew members were sold, others died of starvation and violence.

Unable to surrender, Riley mobilized all tricks, eventually succeeding in persuading a merchant to buy both him and the other four crew members. Riley swore she would reply ten thousand times the amount of money the merchant had spent on them all.

Xiêu, the merchant agreed to trade. After another 2 years of walking and walking, I personally took care of this merchant, Riley just came back to her hometown.

6. Or do not build motorcycles

Passion for conquest of the Sahara has never left the human mind. In 1993, Emile Leray, a French electrician, was determined to make a trip to the Sahara on the world's slowest car Citroen 2CV.

After a day of desert ice, Leray's lethargic Citroen 2CV was motionless. Not wanting to sit still and wait for death, he dismantled the tires as a shelter, attempting to turn the remaining iron waste into a motorcycle.

Emile Leray and the "fruit" of the car reversed.

It sounds fictional but Leray really succeeds. Only thing, this self-made car doesn't go down and catches its owner . driving back.

Leray thought it would take only 2 or 3 days to finish, but it ended up taking 12 days. He climbed tiredly onto the cyclist, ran backwards (both literally and literally) out of the desert.

After a day and a half of head to head, Leray faced police patrolling Morocco. They saved him but also fined him a large sum of money for driving a vehicle that did not match the vehicle registered in the application for entry.

7. But still cute all know

Don't think the desert is just a bunch of ugly armor animals like salamanders, lizards and chilling stories. The desert also has a super adorable fur-bearing animal named cat cat .

Cat cat.

No matter how hard the desert makes you feel, all the blame will vanish instantly when you encounter a cat. The big head and the big eyes on their bodies made them adorable.

It is difficult to meet cat cats because they are extremely alert. With its small size, light weight and feathered foot cushions, they leave no trace on the sand. Strangely, though living in a hot desert, sandy cats still have a thick layer of hair and silky sand or ash color.

Your heart will miss the rhythm of the innocent, innocent beauty of the cat but don't be confused. It is the fiercest predator of the desert.

Even poisonous snakes also become catastrophic prey under the clutches of evil spirits with this angelic face.