The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America, rising about 750 feet from the floor of the San Luis Valley on the western base of the Sangre de Cristo Range. One of the most unusual features of the park happens at Medano Creek, which borders the east side of the dunes and is located next to the Visitor Center and Bookstore.
The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America, rising about 750 feet from the floor of the San Luis Valley on the western base of the Sangre de Cristo Range, covering about 19,000 acres. The dunes were formed from sand deposits of the Rio Grande and its tributaries, flowing through the San Luis Valley.
A little beach town on the atlantic in Argentina, about 4.5 hours from Buenos Aires
The mighty sand dunes of the western Sahara... Located few kilometers away from the village of Farafra, basically one of the oasis of Egypt.
The most serene place i have ever visited on this planet so far...
Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and created the world's largest gypsum dune field.
late afternoon, after the rain, at white sands new mexico
At the south end of Island Beach State Park in New Jersey is the end of the road and the last entrance to the beach.
If you love surf fishing, this is the way to do it - driving on the beach.
Among the plants that grow on the sand dunes at Island Beach State Park in New Jersey are plants like this beach plum that is in bloom in the spring.
white sands is a national monument in southern new mexico...it's filled with incredible pure white sand dunes and has been described as "like snow, but not" by locals...
The Farafra Oasis (Arabic: الفرافرة) is the smallest oasis located in Western Egypt, near latitude 27.06° North and longitude 27.97° East. It is located in the Libyan Desert, approximately mid-way between Dakhla and Bahariya.
Farafra has an estimated 5,000 inhabitants (2002) living witin its single village and is mostly inhabited by the local Bedouins.
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