5 Unusual Deserts To Visit Around The World

Kilometers of sand, rocks, sandbanks, and sceneries evoking lunar landscapes are all about a journey in a desert and are certainly, a unique adventure. All the deserts are not the same. Here are the most unusual deserts of the world.

# The Colorful Desert, Painted Desert, USA

The Painted Desert (Arizona) is an expanse of badland hills, flat-topped mesas and buttes. It is an arid land, sparsely vegetated and heavily eroded. The name Painted Desert refers to the rainbow of colorful sedimentary layers exposed in the austere landscape.

The landforms of the Painted Desert have been described as a multicolored layer cake. The variety of hues in the sandstone and mudstone layers of the Chinle Formation is the result of the varying mineral content in the sediments and the rate at which the sediments were laid down.

# A Desert With Lagoons, Lencois Maranhenses, Brazil

Amazingly stretched in Brazil, it is almost impossible to believe that the desert where water has no word is full of lagoons. Situated in the State of Maranhao on the north shore, this desert is in the Lencois Maranhenses National Park where white dunes and blue lagoons have a contrasting match.

The lagoons are formed due to rain drops that accumulate on the depression between dunes forming small ponds of clear water. You can see them only after winters but before summers where species of fish, turtles, and clams live.

# Officially the World's Smallest Desert, Carcross Desert, Canada

The Carcross Desert (located outside Carcross village, Yukon) is affectionately known as the world's smallest desert. The dry climate and wind conditions have created sand dunes and forced special vegetation to adapt to the surroundings. The Carcoss Desert measures approximately 1 square mile (2.6 km2), or 640 acres.

# The World's Largest Gypsum Desert, White Sands, USA

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, dunes have engulfed 275 sq mi (712 sq km) of desert creating the world's largest gypsum desert. White Sands has amazing sand dunes. Some of these are over 40 feet (12 m) tall. Unlike other desert sands, it is cool to the touch, due to the high rate of evaporation of surface moisture and the fact that the sands reflect, rather than absorb, the sun's rays.

# The Black Desert, Egypt

The Black Desert is a region of volcano-shaped mountains with large quantities of small black stones. The stones lie out across the orange-brown ground, so that it is not quite as black as many people may hope for. Climbing one of the many soft peeks, the view from the top is really nice, with similar peeks continuing on into the haze. The Black Desert is uninhabited, and there are no amenities here.