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It is the world's highest stationary dune rising 450 meters (1,480 ft) over the surrounding area, and peaking at 1,611 meters (5,285 ft) above sea level. [8] The surrounding dunes only reach about 200 meters (660 ft). Although the biggest, it is one of several large stationary dunes within the Badain Jaran Desert.
Sand dunes in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia Sacred ovoo in the Gobi Desert The sand dunes of Khongoryn Els, Gurvansaikhan NP, Mongolia Remnants of the Great Wall of China in the Gobi Desert. The Gobi is overall a cold desert, with frost and occasionally snow occurring on its dunes. Besides being quite far ...
It is the world's second-largest shifting sand desert, with about 85% made up of shifting sand dunes, [13] ranking 16th in size in a ranking of the world's largest deserts. [14] Dunes range in height from 60 feet (18 m) up to as much as 300 feet (91 m). The few breaks in this sea of sand are small patches of alluvial clay.
They are among the wonders of our deserts: star dunes, the vaguely pyramid-shaped sand formations up to about 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall with arms stretching out from a central peak to give them ...
The Duge Bridge (), also called the Beipanjiang Bridge, is a four-lane cable-stayed bridge on the border between the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan in China. [1] [2] It spans the deep gorge of the Nizhu River (a tributary of the Beipan), near the town of Duge.
Xiangshawan, also known as Whistling Dune Bay and by other names, is a AAAAA-rated tourist area in the Dalad Banner of Ordos Prefecture in Inner Mongolia, China.Amid China's general campaign to combat desertification, the mostly unreclaimable site in the Gobi's Kubuqi Desert was developed as the country's first desert-themed tourism resort.
The dunes are believed to be remnants of a massive lake, Laka Alamosa, that dried up roughly 440,000 years ago, according to the park’s website.Over time, the park says wind, water and sediment ...
The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step staircase has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism. [2]