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	Gobi Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altay Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast.
		It consists of the desert basins and low mountains lying between the Gobi Altay range on the north, the Helan Mountains to the southeast, and the Qilian Mountains and northeastern portion of the Tibetan Plateau on the southwest.
		To the south of the Kuruk-tagh lie the desert of Lop (= desert of Lop Nur), the desert of Kum-tagh, and the valley of the Bulunzir-gol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gobi_Desert (3328 words)

	Silk Road Tour - Packages
		Taklamakan Desert: With a total area of 337.6 thousand square kilometers, Taklamakan lies in the center of the Tarim Basin, it is the scond largest desert on the earth just next in area to the Sahara Desert in Africa.
		Due to size of the desert, shortage of the water resource and easily changable weather condition exploring the desert has been a game of the death and life.Thanks to the rich oil resources found under the Taklamakan desert many roads and constructions are built around and across the Taklamakan desert.
		Thanks to the desert highway which made the crossing the Taklamakan Desert a soft adventure, the highway is built recently due to the rich oil resources found this region.
	www.silk-road-china.com /taklamakan.htm (558 words)

	Taklamakan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taklamakan (also Taklimakan) is a desert of Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
		Some references fancifully state that Taklamakan means "if you go in, you won't come out"; others state that it means "Desert of Death" or "Place of No Return".
		The White Jade River flows into the Taklamakan, as do the Yarkant He originating in the Kunlun mountains and the Torkan He from the Tien Shan range.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taklamakan (455 words)

	Habitat Awareness Desert Page
		Desert oases occur where the water table is near the surface of the desert.
		The Gobi desert is the fifth largest desert area in the world and one of the most hostile with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer.
		In the Taklamakan Desert, there are poisonous snakes and frequent sand storms, and inhabitantss have to bear lots of tortures such as water shortages and great temperature differences between boiling heat during the day and freezing cold at night.
	www.inchinapinch.com /hab_pgs/terres/desert/desert.htm (2239 words)

	Taklamakan Desert by Rickshaw - Venturing Western China ~ By Antonio Graceffo
		The Taklamakan Desert, also called The Desert of Death, is located in China's Xinjiang Province.
		Scientists consider it to be the most dangerous desert in the world.
		Next spring I plan to be the first American to cross the interior of the desert from South to North, with a camel.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/50/Taklamakan_Desert.html (1169 words)

	Pedaling a Rickshaw in China's Taklamakan Desert
		The Taklamakan Desert, also called The Desert of Death, is located in China's Xingjian Province.
		The Taklamakan Desert and Xingjian, in general, is so remote that it is nearly impossible to reach.
		The main danger in desert riding is that water is very heavy and slows your progress.
	www.offbeattravel.com /taklamakan-desert.html (1896 words)

	The Opposite End of China \|\| Xinjiang & Northwest China Blog (中国的另一端 \|\| 新疆 & ...
		News today via Xinhua that another highway across the Taklamakan Desert will be opening by the end of 2007.
		Xinjiang's first desert highway, which is east to the highway being constructed, has a length of 522 kilometers.
		The first desert highway, also a north-south road from Lunnan to Minfeng, was opened to traffic in 1995.
	china.notspecial.org /archives/2006/03/taklamakan_high.html (315 words)

	Silk Route, China
		It is located in the southwest corner of the Taklamakan Desert in China's Sinjiang Province.
		This region was part of some of China's earliest dynasties and from the third century BC on was traversed by the famous Silk Road.
		The multi-frequency, multi-polarized radar imagery was acquired on orbit 106 of the space shuttle Endeavour on April 16, 1994 by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar.
	www.solarviews.com /cap/earth/niya.htm (334 words)

	The Most Important Findings of Niya in Taklamakan
		The Niya River winds through the southern Taklamakan Desert for about 210 km and its head waters are fed by melted snow from the towering the Mount Kunlun, known was Nanshan Mountain in ancient times.
		Eventually, however, the city became buried in the desert sand and slipped in oblivion.
		Dried out by the deserts heat and virtualy undisturbed, the bodies, clothes and burial articles are in excellent condition.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/niya.shtml (934 words)

	See You in Asia 2006
		Crossing the Taklamakan Desert has been a dream for the people lasting for thousands of years; however the rough natural environment stopped the people’s step.
		Taklamakan is one of the major deserts in the world; it is only smaller than Sahara Desert by its area.
		The Mazatag Mountain is the only mountain in the center of Taklamakan Desert, 100km from east to west, 1km from north to south, 1636m above sea level, and the highest point is 400m from the ground.
	www.seeyouinasia.com /offer_cts.html (2107 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| Richard Kadrey \| The Silk Road
		Of the three documented research expeditions that have landed on Taklamakan and the two salvage vessels that followed, all have ended in the same tragic way.
		The Taklamakan desert lies in mainland China's far northwest, along the old Silk Road.
		The fact that all who've died on Taklamakan have left behind enormous and often inexplicable fortunes to their heirs is taken by many as a sign of these mystical bargains.
	www.infinitematrix.net /stories/shortshorts/kadrey26.html (869 words)

	Ancient city reveals life in desert 2,200 years ago
		The ancient city, shaped like a peach, is located in the center of the Taklimakan Desert, the second largest shifting desert in the world, covering a total area of 337,600 square kilometers, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
		Based on analysis of satellite pictures and on-the-spot investigations, archaeologists found that the Round Sand area used to be covered by many rivers and thick forest, a home to 98 kinds of wild vertebrate, said Ma Ming, a research fellow with the Xinjiang Ecological and Geological Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
		As for the reason behind the city's disappearance, Abdurensule explained that the Keriya River had retreated gradually due to the expansion of desert and the local environment had deteriorated due to the excessive felling of trees.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-05/22/content_597113.htm (1062 words)

	Taklamakan: The Land of No Return
		He breathed in deeply, smelling the tang of the desert sands and the barest tinge of salt in the air.
		The desert appeared as a silent shadow of the mountains, but yet it was alive with the same movement and life of the sea.
		His hold on that tenuous cord that seemed to bind him to the land, and join the desert itself to the oceans and mountains of the earth, now slipped from his grasp, and fled from him.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=7905 (2083 words)

	Scene-57
		The heart of the desert was just such a place of stillness and sublime certainty, long hidden from the eyes of men who walked on the roads of life that traced its edges.
		As he stood on the northern banks of the Tarim River, staring south to the desert beyond, he was possessed with an inner sense of foreboding.
		Each night the desert grew colder, and they soon found that all their water was freezing to ice, forcing them to huddle with a water bag close to their bodies at night.
	www.dharma6.com /html/scene-57.html (4439 words)

	Image & Photo Gallery :: Xinjiang Motorcycle Madness
		The desert-like area leading up to the real desert is full of beautiful, old trees.
		An experimental section of low, criss-crossed fences to prevent the encroachment of the desert.
		The only gas station for 250+ km in either direction is at Tazhong (which literally means "middle of the Taklamakan").
	china.notspecial.org /gallery/motorcyclemadness (181 words)

	Mysteries Of The Taklamakan Desert
		In China’s most western province, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in central Asia, is a desert known as "if you go in, you won't come out” or "Desert of Death" or "Place of no return", the Taklamakan Desert.
		The Taklamakan is roughly 90,000 sqare miles in size and is dominated by the Tarim Basin, the largest of its kind in the world.
		The existence of the Tocharian languages and alphabet was not even guessed at, until chance discoveries in the mid 20th century brought to light fragments of manuscripts in a then-unknown alphabetic syllabary that turned out to belong to a hitherto unknown branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/FEB2006/Print/Takla_Makan.htm (808 words)

	Desert Eco Toursl - Tour Host Pick
		What a fantastic way to explore the deserts that so fascinate me. The lands that spawned western civilization and the millennium's of history that have shaped our world.
		But being a bit of a wimp, it's nice to be able to explore for only a day or two, in the relative safety of knowing that I'm not too far from transportation, civilization or a shower.
		For anyone contemplating a journey to this fantastic land, a day in the desert with Desert Eco Tours is a must.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Picks/Archive/DesertEcoTours_Pick.htm (327 words)

	Map of Xinjiang and the Taklamakan Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This map shows central Xinjiang Province and the Taklamakan Desert, in northwest China.
		After the desert segment of the trip, the team turned north toward the Xinjiang capital, Urumqi (upper right, not labeled).
		The mountains at the top are the Tian Shan, at the bottom are the Kunlun, center left are the Pamirs and lower left are the Karakoram.
	alumnus.caltech.edu /~pamlogan/gallery/sroadmap.html (200 words)

	Taklamakan Desert
		the China News Agency reported that oil prospectors in the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang province had found a tribe of more than 200 Turkic-speaking Uygurs living in a small oasis.
		The Taklamakan is a desert of Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
		The White Jade River flows into the Taklamakan. This river flows north through the Khotan (Hotan) region, from the Kunlun Mountains before eventually drying up in the desert sands.
	www.crystalinks.com /taklamakan.html (480 words)

	Postcards From The Edge: SARS and the City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On his first expedition into China's Taklamakan Desert, my hero, the world-famous explorer Sven Hedin, lost four of his men, eight camels, and four mules.
		Appropriately, The Taklamakan Desert has been called the Desert of Death.
		So, unless there had been a handover during the night, I had to believe that the Taklamakan Desert was still in China.
	talesmag.com /tales/postcards/adventure.shtml (1171 words)

	Desert Scenes
		I have an affinity with the desert: a minimalist place where we shed the excesses.
		On the fringes of the mighty Taklamakan Desert at Dunhuang, in Gansu Province, The People's Republic of China.
		In a red desert under a blue sky, a question of life or death.
	www.greymattermedia.com /DesertScenes.html (240 words)

	Large depolarization ratio of free tropospheric aerosols over the Taklamakan Desert revealed by lidar measurements: ...
		Lidar measurements were made at Dunhuang (40°00′N, 94°30′E), China, to understand the vertical distribution of aerosols in the free troposphere over the Taklamakan desert in summer of 2002.
		The vertical distributions of the scattering ratio suggested that particulate matter distributed from near the ground to about 6 km in the range of values of about 2 to 5 and rapidly decreased to about 1 at about 6 km.
		Particulate materials were directly collected with a balloonborne particle impactor in the free troposphere over the Taklamakan desert, and an electron microscopic experiment on the particles suggested that the large depolarization ratio was certainly due to irregularly shaped dust particles.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002JD003267.shtml (518 words)

	TaklaMakan Coral Beads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What is now the vast TaklaMakan desert in western China was a seabed.
		The mountains pushed up and blocked the moist winds and the sea turned to desert.
		The desert's edges are irrigated and thriving with Buddhist communities.
	www.madinpursuit.com /beads/TaklaMakanCoral.htm (119 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA01725
		This radar image is of an area thought to contain the ruins of the ancient settlement of Niya.
		It is located in the southwestern corner of the Taklamakan Desert in China's Sinjiang Province.
		X-SAR was developed by the Dornier and Alenia Spazio companies for the German space agency, Deutsche Agentur fuer Raumfahrtange-legenheiten (DARA), and the Italian space agency, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), with the Deutsche Forschungsanstaltfuer Luft und Raumfahrt e.v.(DLR), the major partner in science, operations and data processing of X-SAR.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA01725 (393 words)

	Importance of dust particles in the free troposphere over the Taklamakan Desert: Electron microscopic experiments of ...
		Measurements of aerosol morphology and chemical elements were made in August 2002 at Dunhuang (40°00′N, 94°30′E), China, on the basis of direct sampling of free tropospheric aerosols with a balloonborne particle impactor, to understand nature of atmospheric particles over the desert areas in the Asian continent.
		Electron microscopic experiments of the particles directly showed that mineral (dust) particles were major constituents of coarse mode particles in the free troposphere over the Taklamakan desert.
		The large depolarization ratio, according to lidar measurements, distributed from near the surface to about 6 km, suggesting that lots of particles having irregular shape (possibly dust particles) were in the free troposphere in summer over the Taklamakan desert.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002JD003270.shtml (475 words)

	Amazon.com: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not a satellite phone between them, they all managed to return with cart loads of precious art works and magnificent scrolls which they 'found' in desert oases and religious retreats guarded by monks who were up for a bribe or two.
		From their juvenile dreams, to their meticulous organization we follow the archeothieves through the magnificent and frightful landscapes of the Taklamakan Desert among buried towns and cave temples full of brillant frescos and ancient manuscripts.
		Taklamakan was surrounded on three sides by vast mountain ranges almost twice as high as the European alps; on the last side was the vast Gobi desert.
	www.amazon.com /Foreign-Devils-Silk-Road-Treasures/dp/0870234358 (2227 words)

	Bruce Sterling. Taklamakan
		In the bitter wind and cold of the Taklamakan, the bigger chunks of wreckage had already gone all brown and crispy, like the shed husks of locusts.
		The deep and empty bubble had lurked beneath the desert in utter and terrible silence, for ninety years.
		The damp heat was bliss after the skin-eating chill of the Taklamakan, but most of the vents and cracks were spewing thick smells of hot beef stew and burnt rubber, all varieties of eldritch mechano-metabolic byproduct.
	lib.ru /STERLINGB/taklamakan.txt (13921 words)

	Bike China Adventures, Inc. - China Bicycle Travelogues
		Usually the Uyghurs eat bread and goat meat or goat meat soup.
		Sleeping in a drainage tunnel to avoid the intense desert sun.
		Born in New York City, Antonio spent much of his youth in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee.
	www.bikechina.com /ct-graceffo.html (1232 words)

	MIR Corporation - Tien Shan & Taklamakan: Nomads & Merchants of the Silk Route
		Explore one of the less traveled routes along the ancient Silk Road - through the peaks and meadows of mountainous Kyrgyzstan to Western China's forbidding Taklamakan desert and exotic Kashgar bazaar.
		Making our way through Charyn Canyon's desert rock formations, we cross the border into Kyrgyzstan and arrive at Karakol, located on the shore of the beautiful high-altitude Lake Issyk-Kul.
		This desert region is ethnically diverse, with Uighurs, Mongols, Manchus, Kazakhs, and dozens of other minority groups making up its population.
	www.mircorp.com /tour_ttnm.asp (353 words)

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