Most beautiful Yardang landform in China

Yardang Landform is a typical wind erosion landscape. In arid regions, some extremely dry lakebed often cracks due to the dry. The wind blows along these fissures and erodes the land. The crevices get bigger and bigger, so that the original flat ground develops into many carp-shaped dorsal ridge wide and shallow ridges and grooves. The irregular fragmented landform is so called Yardang Landform. Some landforms look like ancient castle, commonly known as Ghost City. Yardang Landform near Lop Nur in northwest Loulan, Xianjing, is the most typical. Different desert around the world, including the Mojave Desert and desert in Turkestan, have Yardang terrain. In China, Yardang Landform in Tarim Basin region, Lop Nur, Xinjiang, is the most typical landscape. It is a type of erosion landscape by the erosion of arid environment and strong wind.

Urho: the most magnificent rock Yardang Landform
Urho County is 100 kilometers southwest from Karamay City, Xinjiang, China. There is a unique wind erosion landscape with oddly shaped Yardang Landform. The Yardang Landform in Urho County is listed as the top of the most beautiful ardang Landform in China by “Chinese National Geography”. To get there, you should firstly get to Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and then take the bus at Mingyuan (the Karamay Office in Urumqi). It takes four hours or so to reach Karamay City. The bus departures hourly to Baijiantan District or the downtown Karamay City from as early as nine o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock at night. And the fare is about 105 yuan.

Bailongdui (White Dragon Dunes): the most mysterious Yardang Landform
Bailongdui (White Dragon Dunes) is one of three Yardang Landform groups in Lop Nor. It was often mentioned in the history books. It is located in the northeast of Lop Nur, is a group of saline soil units, Stretching hundreds of kilometers. For Bailongdui (White Dragon Dunes) contains gravels, gypsum mud and salt soil, the color is gray and but also reflects silver light when there is sunlight, like scales. This piece of ancient Yardan Landscape was known as the “white Dragon” because from a distance, the white dunes like a cruising White Dragon in the sand. The white back in wave disappears and reappears, immense and imposing.

Sanlongsha: the most spectacular Yardang Landform
Sanlongsha Yardang Landform is located in Gobi desert west of Jade Gate Pass. For is the edge is located three ridge, so called three ridge. Sanlongsha Yardang Landform lies across a mobile dune belt in the east of Lop Nur. This desert is about one hundred kilometers long and several kilometers wide. When it encounters the wind, the sand will move like a snake. Here is the only way of the ancient Silk Road, if you are good luck enough, you can also pick up relics here.