Experiences labelled with 'sand dunes'
The Rocky Mountains are popular for their great ski resorts, but hidden in the Sangre de Cristo range in the southern part of Colorado is a unique experience where you’re more likely to find someone sledding down a sand dune than skiing. Camping, hiking and other such pastimes are also popular in the relatively unknown Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, a gem that struggles to receive 300,000 visitors a year. The Great Sand Dune's distance from the major Front Range towns like Denver and Colorado Springs helps keep it this way, making a visit an excellent experience that can be enjoyed without the hordes that are common at many of the more popular national parks. Located northeast of Alamosa, once a mining supply town ...
White Sands National Monument is a magnificent collection of snow-white sand dunes covering an area of some 275 square miles in Central New Mexico. This unique dune field is comprised of gypsum sand - the transparent mineral that creates the eerie colorless landscape of White Sands. This is considered the largest gypsum dune field on earth and the area consists of an unusual group of plant and animal life that have adapted to the gypsum's white environment, including the spiky soaptree yucca plants that are often the lone evidence of life along the stark landscape of White Sands. White Sands, New Mexico is about 40 miles east of the city of Las Cruces. It sits within the confines of the uber-secretive White Sands Missile Range ...
The Gobi desert is the third largest, and one of the most famous deserts in the world. One of the best ways to experience the vast expanses of rolling sand dunes and spans of open desert is on a camel trek. These unusually regal animals are perfectly adapted to the harsh desert climate. They can go days without water, and their soft padded feet expand over the surface of the sand as they walk. In the chilly early morning hours just before sunrise, we bid farewell to our ger (Mongolian tent) and prepare to mount our desert beasts of burden. Getting on a camel is somewhat like riding your favourite thrill ride at an amusement park. You climb onto the saddle of stacked blankets while ...
