Gobi is the largest and most majestic desert in Asia. It is located in southern Mongolia and occupies a vast territory within China. Although everyone calls the Gobi desert, this is not entirely correct. Up to 300 millimeters of precipitation falls annually in this area, which is completely atypical for deserts. Even in Kyzylkum and Karakum located next door, one and a half times less. In addition, the Gobi Desert is characterized by very severe winters.
In the territory occupied by the Gobi, the desert is by no means the only landscape. It is not for nothing that the Mongols say that they have 33 Gobi and all are different in appearance and climate. This is a boundless steppe with a huge number of variegated tulips and tall grasses, and wormwood dry steppes with stony soil, and semi-deserts with dried rivers and rare wells. The deserts of Asia are so mysterious and mysterious, their appearance attracts travelers like a magnet.
There are several Gobi: Dzungarian, Eastern, Gashun, Gobi Altai. They all have completely different terrain. There are salty and fresh lakes, sands and tall grasses, flat plains and mountains, salt marshes and fast rivers with clear, clear water. In the steppes of the East Gobi, you can see the cones of volcanoes that spewed lava in the VI century.
To see the real desert, you need to go west or south of the East Gobi. Here the landscape consists of hills and low mountains. Only sun and wind reign in this area. There are practically no cloudy days. On a summer day, the temperature reaches 45 ° C, and in winter it can drop to -30 ° C. There are no barriers to the wind in the steppe, so it develops a frantic speed.
The Gobi Desert is sometimes too dangerous for itinerant travelers and shopping caravans, because sandstorms are not uncommon here. A hurricane raises into the air everything that it comes across, billions of small grains of sand blind and do not allow normal breathing. Animals turn back to the wind in order to somehow stay in place. A hurricane tears off the roofs of houses, carries small objects over 20 km (sometimes light yurts were found 5 km away), tents tear to shreds. In autumn, heavy rain with hail can still be added to the hurricane wind, which can even kill a goat or a ram, because the gradients reach the size of a chicken egg.
In just a week of raging storms, solid grains of sand turn into clear glass. The tops of rocks and ridges are perfectly polished, therefore they create an amazingly picturesque picture. The Gobi Desert is most beautiful in the early morning, when the sun only wakes up, timidly sending its rays to the sand that has cooled during the night. Only at this time you can enjoy clean and fresh air, soak up the sun without fear of getting a burn. Only a couple of hours will pass, and the picture will radically change. The desert will turn back into a hot place.
Today, the Gobi Desert remains an amazingly beautiful and mysterious place on the planet. Here paleontologists conduct their excavations, because it is in this area that the famous cemetery of dinosaurs is located. It will take more than one decade, and maybe a century, before a person learns all the secrets that the impregnable Gobi keeps in himself.