This is not the mammoths in the permafrost and diamonds, of which I have already described. This is – a natural phenomenon “Tukulans”!
Vzapravdashnih desert suddenly found a place among the Siberian taiga on the banks of the river north Lena. Temperatura air them in summer reaches up to 40C. Distribution territory tukulans refers to the driest areas of Yakutia with little annual precipitation (180 -250mm) and with great evaporation. Waving sandy tracts – tukulans (Evenk word toucan means sands tukalany – tracts of sand dunes), widespread in the basins Vilyuya and Lena, and have been described by researchers in the XIX century.
Here a video with the top point and a short story by Dmitry Argunova about this place. I thank him again for being dumped and showed us this miracle of nature! 🙂
Sasha Cheban, the final 200-meter race from the top of Dune, as if asking. You just brought me to the north? :-))
Barren dunes and instead characteristic of Central Asian deserts tumbleweed – a rare endemic plants crested Scriabin. Of course, the sand dunes on the banks of the Lena are the brightest Yakut exotic nature. This is a true miracle of nature, which has no analogues on our entire planet.
Sand sparkling just underfoot. But it is difficult to convey in photos.
With us Andrian. Photographer working including GEO, for example.
Version of the origin of the sand dunes of the Yakut (due to fire, the south wind blew) are fairly weak and can not stand any criticism. And most importantly, they do not answer the question “why the dunes were formed here? What is so special this place? “However, knowledge of landscape history is not a prerequisite for enjoying them. :-))
With origins tukulans associated with the formation of numerous lakes and marshes along the margins tukulans depressions and sand areas. This phenomenon is somewhat paradoxical – in the area of sand is even more lakes and lakes than is usually the case.
Oscillating hot air, shiny mica sand, simple plants, virgin undulating dunes. This we have visited on a relatively small tukulanchike, Yakutia okazyvetsya has extended over 30-40 km in length and 10 km in width of the desert!
Beauty! Well, who’s to say that it’s filmed in the north in the taiga? 😉
Overall we really enjoyed it! 🙂
And now attempt to convey the height and dimensions of the dunes 🙂 Here I stand at the top, and Dima moved down to the middle of the dunes (100 meters), to the place where the descent becomes steeper sharply.
And now I stand on this, and look up the middle.
Down almost to the bottom. Then you can escape was only packed in a holster fotikom. Since descent seemed almost vertical
And so I’m getting ready to remove the bottom and how will descend down from the middle of the dunes (for 100 meters)
Approximate and see that this point – Alexander Cheban running down. 🙂
Stand and take pictures, and the sand around and pours down
Slalom! Ski just not enough! :-)) By the way, say that winter ekstremaly still skate skiing here!
Looks like a new sport like Sasha
And how was fine immediately dive into the river, which despite the fact that the North was in this place a warm (18 degrees). July not December. 😉
All the beauty not fit in one post. So soon will be continued with new photos, details about this natural phenomenon, as well as a video as we ran with it to the bottom. I myself ran with tukulans enabled camera just. So it turned out cool. 🙂
Source: Livejournal.com
Translation: Google
