Dasht-e Kavir

Semnan Province · Iran

Dasht-e Kavir, Iran
Photo: Klára Nováková, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
October to April
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A vast salt desert occupying much of the central Iranian plateau, marked by mud flats, salt marshes and sculpted ridges. Its extreme conditions leave the interior almost uninhabited.

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