Badain Jaran desert

One of the world's four major deserts of the Badain Jaran Desert, in the recent "China's National Geographic" magazine and other units of China's most beautiful places in the poll, ranking the first family of our desert.

Badain Jaran Desert in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is located in the northern part of the territory youqi Alashan a total area of 47 thousand square kilometers, Badain Jaran Desert Dune towering, mysterious and hard to the sand, tranquil lakes, wetlands, the morning bell the drum at the temple for centuries, constitutes a unique charming Badain Jaran Desert landscape. Badain Temple is a famous temple of one of Tibetan Buddhism, because deep in the Badain Jaran Desert, so to add a lot of the mysterious world of color, in recent years, visitors to pour explorer.

Badain Jaran Desert -1700 meters 1200 meters above sea level, Badain Jaran Desert Dune relative height of 200 meters at -500 meters, is China and the seat of the world's highest dune, but also the world's only Group in the distribution of tall dense sand desert. Here less than 40 mm annual rainfall, but even in the desert as many as 113 lakes. Some experts, after analysis found that the formation of lakes and intertwined because of the desert away from the Badain Jaran Desert, some 500 kilometers through the formation of the Qilian Mountains snow depths of the fault into the desert to form large lakes.