The desert is not solely the sand. In some locations there are natural lakes where the water comes from local water sources as well as those derived from annual rainfall. Here is also usually seen Palm trees and even fruit crops and lush gardens. In the location oasis as this is usually the population formed. Unfortunately many have disappeared due to various reasons.
1. Lakes Ubari, Erg Awbari, Sahara Oasis
Its location near the Fezzan and 30 km north of Germa, Libya. Lake watery sauce is a central location for local people who trade mostly sell souvenirs and other items on the edge of the Lake.
Umm Al-Maa, which means the water Mother, is one of the largest lake in this oasis. Unfortunately, like the other lakes, a layer of water in this area is so deep that Lake-Lake began to dry up.
In unison with the dirty water is starting to level out the salt was, at this time is the same as in the dead sea. The high salt in Lake Umm Al-Maa keep you floating effortlessly if bathing here.
The former town of Gebraoun which has abandoned its inhabitants is located not far from here with an impressive building ruins indicate that Lakes here was once a living chain of adequate and qualified.
2. Oasis of Huacachina, Peru
Hucachina is a small oasis in the city of Ica, southwestern Peru. Oasis that is named “the Oasis of Americas” it is a resort popular with foreign tourists as well as domestic. Local legend tells that the Lake was formed when the young Hunter interfere with a daughter, beautiful was taking a shower. The daughters were soon gone disappeared leaving a pool of water which then become Lakes.
3. Oasis Bouldering, China
Bouldering, also known by the name of Tulufan, is a town and oasis in an area of Xinjiang Uygur, China. Located just 8 km west of the ruins of Jiaohe City, an area limit of the garrison troops was destroyed by Genghis Khan at the time of the Han dynasty.
4. Desert Lake in Brazil
This beautiful wilderness Lake located in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Maranhao, Brazil. Formed as part of a system of freshwater lakes originating from the rain during the first six months of each year and will then gradually evaporated and the following year the water will be rising again. Several lakes in between there are Palm trees, while the more arid
5. Lake Creescent in the Gobi desert in China
Desert Lake is located at the end of an ancient city that could be encountered on a trip along the Silk Road to the West. When it began to dry up and down more than 25 feet over the last 30 years because it is used directly by the farmer and the ever-increasing population. This resulted in the disappearance of these lakes until it has been around for thousands of years ago.
6. Oasis of Chebika, Tunisia
This gorgeous Oasis is probably the most widely viewed oasis people without people knowing it. This is where the location of the filming of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The name of the oasis program was finally taken from one of the characters in the film that is Chewbacca.
7. Timia Oasis, Sahara, Nigeria
Timia Oasis located in the Aïr Mountains (Northern Nigeria), is the most beautiful oasis in the country for a reason. Not just because the image of a lake in the middle of a desert with some tree palemnya, in dalamya there is also a fertile garden with citrus and pomegranates ready picked and eaten in place (with pay, of course).
Some other types of fruit trees, cereals and vegetables are also grown here. Crop even also sent to other areas in Nigeria.
8. Oasis in Oman
This Green Oasis is hidden in the middle of a desert Oman. Some oasis in Oman Sultanate was often made into a place of study botanikal in the field of agro-biodiversity. Researchers are also looking for reasons why the number of oasis diminished rapidly.
In fact there are still many other natural oasis in the face of this earth, but at least this is what is still remaining and exploited humans and documented.
