Gobi
Gobi. What a magical name!
The Gobi or Gobi Desert is the largest of the Asian continent (after the Arabian Desert) and the fourth largest in the world. The Gobi is located in northern of China and southern of Mongolia, and has an area of 1.295.00 square kilometers.
On closer inspection, we can divide the Gobi into several 'Gobi's'.
The "black Gobi" with stony plains and dark shiny pebbles
The "red Gobi" with crusty soil and towering maze-like area characterized: torn open. And the last one is the yellow Gobi our by the Chinese name sjamo(Sea of Sand).This area is a complex dune of fields that barely allows vegetation.
365 days a year howls the wind over the Gobi steppe.
By result: extreme temperature differences between day and night to ensure a ubiquitous destruction. The fluctuating temperatures on the ground can rise to the boiling point in summer. In the winter temperatures drop down to - 40 0 degrees. The animals in the Gobi are called real life "survival artists".
This includes: wild camel, the koelan (half donkey), an antelope Saiga Antelope, the Mongolian gazelle head, the Przewalski's Horse, the wild sheep, wild goat and last but not least the Gobi bear, which unfortunately only lives in a small number in the inaccessible mountains of Gobi-Altay lives. In addition, there are mosquitoes, ants, spiders, bugs, blood sucking flies, water fast lizards, poisonous snakes and scorpions all kinds.
Plants are scarce in the Gobi, the plants are usually spiny and bushy. Besides the bushy Saxaul (Haloxylon ammondendron).
Other plants are salt and different kind of thorny bushes. All have small pointed spines that get snagged in clothing, or spines that are huge as nails and hear-by easily penetrate your boots. The most fearfull and the most breathtaking thing in the gobi are the sand storms that blows over the land with a force of 8 to 12 beaufort, sometimes scorching hot and sometimes freezing cold.
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