The Gobi Desert is impregnable and beautiful

Gobi is the largest and majestic desert in Asia. It is located in the southern part of Mongolia and occupies a vast territory within China. Although everyone calls Gobi a desert, this is not entirely correct. Every year in this area drops to 300 millimeters of precipitation, which is completely untypical for deserts. Even in Kyzylkum and Karakum, located in the neighborhood, drops out one and a half times less. In addition, the Gobi Desert is characterized by very harsh winters.

On the territory occupied by the Gobi, the desert is by no means the only landscape. Not for nothing the Mongols say that they have 33 Gobi and all different in appearance and climate. This is boundless steppe with a huge number of variegated tulips and tall grasses, and wormwood dry steppes with stony soil, and semi-deserts with dried up rivers and rare wells. The deserts of Asia are so mysterious and mysterious, their appearance attracts travelers to it like a magnet.

There are several Gobi: Dzungar, East, Gashun, Gobi Altai. All of them have completely different terrain. Salt and fresh lakes, sands and tall grasses, flat plains and mountains, solonchaks and fast rivers with clear clear water meet here. In the steppes of the Eastern Gobi, one can see cones of volcanoes erupting lava as early as the 6th century.

To see this desert, you need to go to the west or south of the East Gobi. Here the landscape consists of hills and low mountains. In this area, only the sun and the wind reign. There are almost no gloomy days. Summer day the temperature reaches 45 ° C, and in winter it can drop to -30 ° C. In the steppe, there are no barriers to wind, so it develops a frenzied speed.

The Gobi Desert is sometimes too dangerous for wandering travelers and trade caravans, because sandstorms are not uncommon here. Hurricane picks up everything that comes to it on the way, billions of fine grains of sand dazzle and do not give a normal breathe. The animals turn to the wind with their backs, in order to somehow stay in place. Hurricane tears roofs from houses, small objects carry away for 20 km (light yurts sometimes found in 5 km), tents tear to shreds. In the fall, a strong rain with hail can still add to the hurricane, which can kill even a goat or a ram, because the hailstones reach the size of a chicken egg.

In just a week of raging storms, solid grains of sand become transparent glass. The tops of rocks and ridges are ideally polished, so they create a surprisingly picturesque picture. The Gobi Desert is most beautiful in the early morning, when the sun just wakes up, timidly sending its rays to the sand that has cooled down during the night. Only at this time you can enjoy clean and fresh air, soak up the sun, without fear of getting burned. It will only take a couple of hours, and the picture will change dramatically. The desert will turn into a hot place again.

To date, the Gobi desert remains an amazingly beautiful and mysterious place on the planet. Here, excavations are carried out by paleontologists, as it is in this area that the famous cemetery of dinosaurs is located. It will take more than a decade, and perhaps a century, before a person learns all the secrets that the unassailable Gobi keeps in himself.