Taklimakan Desert, the Uyghur Italy "into the local Chubu Lai," people usually call the "sea of death." It is located in southern Xinjiang Tarim Basin Center, the whole thing about the desert more than 1,000 km, a width of more than 400 km north-south, a total area of 337,600 square kilometers, is China's largest desert, second only to sub-Saharan Africa's largest desert, is the world's second largest Mobile desert.



     In the world's major deserts, the Taklimakan Desert is the most mysterious, one of the most attractive. Desert Centre is a typical continental climate, strong wind, temperature, rainfall throughout the year less. Frequent sandstorms activities here, the peculiar form of sand dunes, up to 250 meters. The most intriguing is that two distinct red and white sand dunes, mountains of the Holy Sepulchre. Peak wind erosion and the formation of "big mushroom." Crustal movements due to the movement, red sandstone and white gypsum composition of sedimentary rocks exposed surface, forming a distinct red and white landscape. Surrounding desert, along the Yeerqiang River, Tarim River, the Hotan River and the two sides to Seoul, Hill River, the growth and development-intensive Huyang Lin Liu shrubs and trees, a "Green Island Shahai." Especially the longitudinal Khotan River and the desert on both sides of longevity Reed, P. euphratica and other desert weeds, in a desert "green corridor", "corridors" in the water Chan Chan, Oasis connected. Hare lived in the forest, birds and other animals, for "sea of death" add a little life. Investigation also found in the desert groundwater storage capacity of rich and conducive to development. There is water there is life, scientific expedition to overthrow the "restricted area of life."



     Haohan in the desert, so far found numerous ancient city ruins, the Niya site during the Eastern Han Dynasty have been unearthed in the cotton printing and embroidery.

     Taklimakan Desert, the arid desert of warm, summer maximum temperature of 67.2 ?, day and night temperature of 40 ? above the average annual precipitation is not more than 100 millimeters, only the bottom 45 mm while the average amount of evaporation of up to 2500-3400 mm. A third of the year, sandstorms, winds up to 300 meters per second wind speed. As the desert northwest and north-south by the prevailing wind direction of the two cross-impact activities are frequent sandstorms and fierce, mobile sand dunes of more than 80 percent. According to estimates dwarf the end of the year mobile sand dunes about 20 meters, nearly a thousand years ago, the desert south extension of about 100 km. Silk Road Road South Road absolutely fine, Xiaowan, Rong Lu, Wei bridge, drainage music, ancient Loulan, and so many towns and villages have been quicksand by the annihilation.

Accommodation:
     October this year with the Xinjiang desert wind, I cross-country adventure to the Taklimakan Desert, China, Tajikistan, a hotel and restaurants, we live in Well No. 49 camp.

Transportation:
     As Wada is located in the Taklimakan Desert, the region's most scenic spots in the desert, so the attraction between the most convenient mode of transportation is Car Rental, in order to smooth journey, we must rent good performance off-road jeep.

Food:
     Taklimakan Desert is the most important food made of wheat flour cakes, very characteristic of the production process, and good use of the cage after the burning hot sand, and then Miantan open in the hot sand with hot sand on the cover, long before Bingzi on Shaoshu, but no one above the sand, the food is "to buy the West." A few people here eat on vegetables, pasta is in addition to beef and mutton.