Chara Sands

Zabaykalsky Krai · Russia

Chara Sands, Russia
Photo: musatych, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
July to September
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An improbable stretch of golden desert dunes set against snow-capped Kodar mountains in northern Transbaikal. The small sand sea, ringed by taiga and swamp, is one of Siberia's strangest landscapes.

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