The Singing Sands Pt. 1

This is one of the Singing Sand Dunes. It's a site inside Altyn-Emil National Park, about 400km from our house. We had to pay for a guide to be with us at all times, for safety and for directions. We drove about 300kms inside the park and we didn't see one other vehicle. Why didn't we see anyone? Because the park is 520,000 hectares in size. Isn't that a million acres? In the exact centre of this image are three tiny dots. Those are our 4x4's. That's how high we are, standing on a sand dune.

We walked along this ridge of sand, single-file, so that we could get to...

...this peak. On the way there, we heard the sand singing. (More about that later.)

Those 'ants' in the upper left corner are us, walking back. Even though it is a desert setting, there is an enormous river in the valley below--kind of like the Nile.