Greatest Desert

The desert is an arid, barren land with little vegetation. Essentially uninhabited in comparison to most other biomes, deserts make up roughly one-third of the planet’s land area. While the desert archetype may come to mind as sandy and sweltering, some of Earth’s deserts extend to the planet’s frozen poles. And There are 10 greatest deserts in the world that you should visit on your vacation. 

1. Gobi

Asia’s biggest desert, It such a one of the famous desert in the world where most visitors go. And it covering northern China and southern Mongolia may have plenty of sand and gravel but there are also mountains and evergreen forests and a dune system.

2. Sahara 

This is the world’s biggest desert, occupying much of North Africa including Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria. Awesomely empty and hot as it is, humans have left their mark here over millennia.

3. Kalahari 

Spreading across parts of Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, the Kalahari enjoys an annual rainfall that sustains a great variety of plants and animals. After the rains, the vast Makgadikgadi Salt Pan is a superb place to see wildebeest and zebra, the predators that follow them, and migratory birds.

4. Namib

This is the desert that provides the visual shorthand for all deserts - the wind-sculpted, apricot-colored dunes of Sossusvlei that you can hike on as if they were downs. Spreading inland from the Atlantic coast across Namibia, this ocean of grit and sand is a popular diving destination, with the gravel roads flying like arrows to far horizons.

5. Atacama

 It is wonderful - pink flamingoes really did just fly overhead. They live on the salt flats and lakes of this desert in northern Chile renowned as the driest place on earth. The chi-chi frontier town of San Pedro de Atacama makes a fabulous base for exploring natural phenomena that also include the El Tatio geysers and the geological freakshow that is the Valley of the Moon. 

6. Thar 

Rajasthan of India - mostly within, the Thar is a patchwork of sand dunes, hills and gravel plains that sustains not just wildlife but a sizeable human population. There are camel and sunset dinners and longer excursions from the main desert towns of Jaisalmer and Jodhpur, which are among the most enchanting places on the Subcontinent.

  

7. Arabian 

This vast wilderness, where the heat comes out, blankets the Arabian Peninsula from Syria in the north to Yemen in the south. In the center is the ocean of dunes known as the Empty Quarter, one of the most forbidding tracts of wilderness in the world, were camping under the stars provides the ultimate desert experience.

8. Wadi Rum
This valley complex in southern Jordan is a mere fragment of the Arabian Desert, but what a fragment: multicolored sands, rampart-like rock formations, narrow canyons and vistas that seem to shape-shift with the arc of the sun. The Bedouin who live here run some outstanding tented camps and offer Jeep tours, camel and horse riding, and trekking.

9. Australia’s Red Centre

Uluru, the red plateau that rises from the fiery plain of the central Outback, is the physical and spiritual heart of Australia. It is part of an ancient desert landscape that is sacred as well as physical.

10. Sonoran 
There are any number of desert-scapes in the US but the Sonoran, with its characteristic, cartoon-like Saguaro cacti and late summer hummingbird influx, is particularly captivating. The desert takes its name from the Mexican state of Sonora and stretches up into Arizona and California.