The terrain here is so pronounced it almost looks like a real desert.
Nowhere else in the entire tundra such large volume of loose shifting sands can be found.
Against the backdrop of the cold mountains, the Chara Sands is an extraordinary sight.
Chara Sands is a truly amazing place.
Its like a real desert, but with features you wont see anywhere else except in Trans-Baikal.
You might stumble upon an oasis among the sand ridges where palms gave way to northern larches.
Despite the sands dunes small area, the terrain is quite uneven here.
In the central region its mostly dunes and dune chains, interspersed with blown hollows and hilly sands.
In the outskirts, its sand ridges.
Large dune chains look very impressive between 150 and 700 meters long.
And the whole chain stretches for 2.5 kilometers, 15-30 meters high.
In the central part of the massif theres a 40-50-meter high ledge integrated into the dune chains slope.
In the south-west the dune chains get thicker, and are the highest.
