Taklamakan Desert
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The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in northwestern China. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the T
View of the Taklamakan desert
Desert life near Yarkand
The Molcha (Moleqie) River forms a vast alluvial fan at the southern border of the Taklamakan Desert, as it leaves the Altyn-Tagh mountains and enters the desert in the western part of the Qiemo County. The left side appears blue from water flowing in many streams. The picture is taken in May, when the river is full with the snow/glacier meltwater.
"Princess of Xiaohe", one of the Tarim mummies, the "best representatives" of Ancient North Eurasians. The mummy was discovered in 2003.
Great Green Wall (China)
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The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Dese
Taklamakan Desert
…A-lang-ha and Mai-k'o-tsa-k'o. The Mazartag mountains are located in the western part of the desert. In 1978, the Chinese government launched the Green Great Wall project, aiming to create a forest chain extending from Xinjiang to Heilongjiang in northern China, to prevent desertification as well as harness the…
Manantenina bushfire