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Badain Jaran Desert

 

Badain Jaran Desert in China was rated as the most beautiful desert
 



     Desert, one of the world's four major Badain Jaran Desert, in the recent "China's National Geographic" magazine, and other units of the organization the most beautiful place in China in the top ranked China's first family of the desert.

     Badain Jaran Desert in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Alxa Right Banner in north with a total area of 47,000 square kilometers, the Badain Jaran Desert soaring sand mountains, mysterious and hard-ming of the sand, tranquil lakes, wetlands, Chenzhong Mugu century Ancient temples, the Badain Jaran Desert constitute a unique and fascinating landscape. Badain Jaran temple is the famous temple of Tibetan Buddhism, because deep in the Badain Jaran Desert, it added a lot of the people of the world to the mysterious color, tourists in recent years, explorers to pour.

     Badain Jaran Desert -1700 m 1,200 m above sea level, the Badain Jaran Desert sand relatively high in the mountains 200 meters - 500 m, and China is the world's highest sand hill located, is also the world's only tall sand-intensive Group of the desert. Here in less than 40 mm of precipitation, but the lakes in the desert has as many as 113. Some experts have found through analysis, the formation of lakes and desert-cutting is 500 kilometers from the Badain Jaran Desert, through the formation of the Qilian Mountain snow depths of the fault into the desert formed large lakes.

 

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