The most exotic deserts in the world

The vast deserts not only have sandy beaches, harsh climates, but sometimes they also have interesting and strange characteristics that stimulate people's curiosity.

1. Desert with water lagoon - Lencois Maranhenses, Brazil

Its existence must have made many of these amazing, desert people in Brazil's Lencois Maranhenses park, famous for its opposing scenery when the desert and lagoon coexist .

These swamps are formed when raindrops accumulate among dunes, creating small, puddle pools in the middle of the sunny and windy desert. This amazing scene only happens at the end of winter and before summer begins. Surprisingly, there are some native fishes in the lakes, because their eggs are brought by birds.

2. Colorful desert - Painted Desert, USA

The colorful desert of America is a series of barren hills , the vegetation here is extremely sparse and severely eroded. The colors of this desert are formed by layers of sediments stacked tightly. This desert landscape is like colorful multi-layer cakes.

3. The smallest desert in the world - Carcross Desert, Canada

Carcross Desert is recorded as the smallest desert in the world. The dry climate and strong winds created arid sand dunes. This desert only covers about 2.6 square kilometers.

not the usual desert because it is actually a large sandy area formed at the end of the Ice Age, when glaciers appeared. Over time, these glaciers evaporate and reveal the sandy bottom of the lake as we see them today.

4. White desert - USA

This special desert is one of the natural wonders of the world, located in the state of New Mexico, USA. It is also recognized as the largest gypsum desert in the world with an area of ​​712 square kilometers. This sand in the desert is not only special by pure white but also by the very cool temperature to touch due to the high humidity on the surface, while the cross-section reflects instead of absorbing the sun's heat.

5. Black desert - Egypt

The Black Desert is the result of volcanic eruptions. Its black color is volcanic ash ash mixed with sand that forms. Here, visitors often encounter black rocks interspersed with normal golden brown stones, the surface of this desert is spread on many small black stones with different shapes.

6. The world's largest salt desert - Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Referring to the desert, people think of sand, but the Salar de Uyuni desert in Bolivia is a giant salt field , this desert is like a giant glass reflecting the sky. Previously this area was 2 large saltwater lakes, then gradually dried up, the salt here was smooth and as much as sand so many people called it sand desert.

7. The world's driest desert - Atacama Desert, Chile

This desert has a drought level 50 times higher than death valley in California, USA. The average rainfall of this desert is only about 1mm a year, some places are judged to never rain . The atmosphere here is so dry that although it is located at a height of 6,500m above sea level, the temperature is very low, these places do not have any glaciers.

8. Simpson Desert, Australia

The Simmson Desert of Australia is also known as the " red desert" , because the sand here is a strange, bright orange red . This color is due to the high content of III oxide iron mixed in the sand, the bright sunlight gives results. But this is not an interesting tourist destination, because of its extreme heat in the summer. The Australian government also issued a ban, who set foot in the Simpson desert will be fined 1,000 Australian dollars.

9. Namib Desert, Namibia

Desert elephants are present, but not every desert has elephants, except Namibia. The Namib Desert is one of the world's oldest deserts (about 80 million years), so it maintains a fairly stable temperature for organisms that can survive: ranging from 0 degrees C to 50 In addition, "living fossil " Welwitschia mirabilis is also endemic to Namibia, with persistent vitality and longevity . 1000 years old!

10. Atacama Desert, Chile

Dubbed the " driest desert in the world" because there was almost no rain for centuries, but nowhere like Atacama: flowers bloom in the heart of the desert ! In September and October every year, a thick mist from the Pacific "landed" Chile, carrying the moisture of the sea. So the flowers Ananuca, wild daisies, iridescent, . timidly rose from the sand, creating a unique natural phenomenon that is unique. The desert is also so amazingly lively.

11. Farafra Desert, Egypt

Farafra is a 100% white sandy desert in western Egypt and possesses a unique color change by day and night . During the day, the sunshine covered Farafra with a gentle, charming orange pink, but at night, looking at the desert like a second, white and cold Antarctic. Here, the " weathered " chalk creates a layer of white sand and bizarre stones scattered about Farafra.

Taklamakan Desert, Central Asia

The local Taklamakan means " if you arrive, you cannot survive" ! This is only the 15th largest desert in the world, but a " cold desert " - the only place with a mixture of sand and snow. Due to the proximity of cold air blocks in Siberia, this area often has winter snowstorms, sometimes creating a layer of snow up to 4cm thick. It sounds like that, but it makes Taklamakan have a terrible temperature difference between day and night.