What will the deserts that are so suggestive, which trickster off a mystical power. Cause a direct blackmail the deepest emotions and something that looks very much like hypnosis. Deserts, places that inspire by their silence, their immensity and the ability to make one feel like a tiny grain of sand, the metaphor of a world lonelier than it got us thinking. Parishioner pro at this kind of uninhabited landscapes look caress her essence in contemplation and meditation, to hear his voice. There are many, very different and each more inspiring, but today we will talk about the 5 most beautiful deserts that I have seen in my traveling life.
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A trip to five deserts (actually six) as extraordinary as suggestive that have given me a sea of sensations impossible sunrises and sunsets dream. Deserts have been left with part of me and that I have given unforgettable moments.
Perhaps for peace that they release, because they get ourselves smaller to a minimum, because with its silhouette forms and empty unrepentant shake our perception and cause an unconditional surrender of each and every one of the emotions that mark our lives. Maybe that's why more and I like to hold on to the inspiration that produced the deserts. Where to get it becomes a challenge and remain a blessing. So whenever I go to a desert looking for a place with a view to knock me down and stay a long time in silence, with nothing to say but with much to think about.
Deserts dusting the spirit and recharge the batteries. There are many reasons that have led me to travel to them. And although it is complex to decide what the most beautiful deserts in the world are I can talk about some that I have seen and have captivated me alone. These are:
WADI RUM DESERT (JORDAN)
Wherever Lawrence of Arabia found refuge in the Arab Revolt born for many it is the most beautiful desert in the world. Wadi Rum, whose name means Valley of the Moon, is an atypical desert as they come with large calls jebels hills, scattered on a red dirt that seems to move to another planet. It is one of the great jewels of a country like Jordan which I have been fortunate to travel twice and even participate in the recording of a documentary about his most emblematic.
Wadi Rum, but reaches to enter Saudi territory is a small desert when compared to others based on their immensity. The secret of this desert is on the whimsical arrangement and shape of the rocks, in the nearly Martian reds that are a treat for the eyes and being home to the Bedouins since thousands of years ago.
Wadi Rum travel by camel or on a shaky terrain (the older the better) are two of the ways we've been enjoying this beautiful desert. But also spending the night in a camp of tents enjoying good viands, smoking a hookah (shisha or hookah) or around the fire chatting with the locals. Because whenever there is a night in Wadi Rum, there is also a sunrise or sunset. In addition to stars, many stars ... And those are big words.
DESERT Atacama (Chile)
Atacama in Chile, is the driest desert on the planet. In the north Pacific and the Andes form an impregnable barrier not only geographically but as far as weather and rainfall is concerned. It is really extensive and most interesting parts are in the highest parts, within walking distance of Bolivia, where it is mixed with practically the highlands. In San Pedro de Atacama as a base, I found amazing places like the Valley of the Moon, the Salar area or geysers (The Geysers) that you can hear him shudder.
Shortly after having wandered around, newly accused the charm of San Pedro, I wrote an article entitled Atacama is not of this world , reflecting the feelings that inspired those who were among my best days in South America. And the Atacama soil not only visually brutal landscapes but exudes an energy that can only be understood and captured by living quietly.
A desert seen from a perspective of 3000-4200 meters, with the influence of the Atacama cultures that refuse to shut down your voice and the scent of adventure of a genuine Latin America beating in the imagination of the traveler is a reason Atacama enough to be among the most impressive deserts in the world deservedly.
The Sahara desert (Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt)
Many people think of the Sahara as an endless sea of dunes bathed much of northern Africa. It is assumed that it is, when it is not true at all especially in a vast area of the same. Most of the Sahara is what is known as Hamada desert of stones. But in large Ergs from the southeast corner of Morocco to Egypt through Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, it is where the desert is've always imagined.
The ergs are masses of sand dunes formed and reaching them sometimes is not too simple. But when done ... it is what you came looking for a lifetime. I have been fortunate to be in two Ergs, one in Morocco and one in Tunisia. And absorb therefore those horizons that never end ...
Visited Morocco Erg Chebbi , the author of the prodigious dunes of Merzouga, to which I arrived alone in a Renault Kangoo on New Year's Eve 2007. That was the means and the end of a challenge I had in a long time, so peek around the place ran out of the car and ran to the dunes to feel in the middle of nowhere. The best way to end and start a year.
The southern Tunisian desert landscape there is another that left me speechless both times I had the fortune to meet him. Ksar Gilane saw the sand invade everything that was around me. This desert dunes born in the Grand Erg Oriental of Algeria and has caused considerable size be within Tunisian territory. There the sand gets more red as the sun changes its position, bordering on the sublime heights sunset.
The last trip to the desert was the most special. This was an adventure in the Eastern Sahara, more specifically in the Libyan Desert in Egypt . I embarked on the expedition known as Kamal spending 15 days in one of the most remote deserts on the planet.
I hope to discover new corners of the Sahara in upcoming trips and continue to capture its magic.
GOBI DESERT (MONGOLIA)
When in the middle of Trans trip I made with friends through this desert uploaded in one go, we looked to emulate the status quo with its mythical "In the army now". Of course, making a few changes in the wording and singing over and over again, " You are in Gobi now ... ohh you're in the Gobi ... nooow " . You had to see us, but was a reflection of how we were touring one of the most legendary deserts in the world. Exultant, excited ... travelers.
The Gobi Desert is characterized as either a sea of dunes, but also has stunning scenery. While I believe that one of the key ways that thoroughly enjoyed this part of the world was still being home to the last nomads of the planet. The Mongols still retain their itinerant tradition and go forth with your family, your animals and features yurts or gers where they live wherever they want.
There, where roads did not exist nor expected, nomads met several families and knew what it was guided by the paths that drew the stars in the sky. After the Mongolian steppe extends this lonely plain priori but in which nothing at all in some children may appear on horseback with clothes that seems to have not changed since the days of Genghis Khan himself.
Besides this the Gobi saves space idyllic places like the Flaming Cliffs (The flaming hills), with some resemblance to the Grand Canyon, where there is one of the highest densities of fossils and dinosaur bones in the world. Or a valley out of nowhere in which are held several blocks of ice throughout the year. Quite a mystery the less unexpected.
The Gobi is unlike any desert. And his blood is nomadic ...
The Namib Desert (Namibia)
The sand turns orange in Sossusvlei, in the exact center of the Namib Desert , rising on the remains of dead salt lagoons and African acacias that miraculously retain their skeleton. From the dune 45 is the best sunrise of Namibia and probably of southern Africa, but if you have patience and decides to get lost in this area will encounter ostriches and jackals unrepentant to the sun that burns those humps of sand and salt.
Wherever the Tsauchab River dried one of the most photogenic and extraterrestrial desert scenes I've seen in my life is preserved. In Deadvlei, which means "dead lagoon" a masterful combination of colors is perceived. On the one hand the pure white of a dried soil for hundreds of years and on the other the darkness of branches stylized almost petrified trees. If we add the orange sand hills and blue sky always it appears to us a paradise for lovers of photography.
Unique landscape where there was able to infringirme battery emotions that can only be understood if you've been there before.
Deserts ... So far, so impenetrable and so wise. Visiting these places catapult me drunk swaying feelings in my head and lead to a heart that refuses to settle into the routine. His empty swallow my pride, your silence are the dialogues written with pen and paper.
AND WILD: THE KALUTS (IN SOUTHEAST IRANIAN)
It is true that promised five deserts but could not fail to mention one of my latest findings travelers. In southeastern Iran, a couple of hours from the city of Kerman, born known as Lut Desert. One area that is over 100 kilometers long and 80 wide is called Kaluts, which we had the opportunity to travel in an SUV with no company but many buildings of mud carved by nature. Landscapes that during that trip christened mars Iran , left us with open mouth because unknowingly had found a Monument Valley than he ever had heard.
We spent an evening by the fire and sleeping in tents knowing that the next morning would wake up excited with one of the most beautiful deserts we had seen in our lives.
Paulo Coelho once that "God created the desert so that man might smile to see the palm trees," he said. There is no doubt that the smile is part of the first impression travelers have to negligible find ourselves in these inhospitable corners for nothing.
Deserts ... which places!
