Desert Travel & Adventures
Bolivia is one of the greenest countries and tropical heavens of South America, but it still makes for a great sandboarding destination. Even though it does not have any real desert, the Lomas de Arena ("sand hills") near Santa Cruz are a very popular tourist destination where this activity can…
From July 07 to 10, the emblematic event of the city of Hirschau Germany, the sandboarding competition SANDSPIRIT will be held. Its location is the Monte Kaolino vacation center, a place with an artificial dune with more than 50 years of history, where the first skiers tested their skis to…
Canada is well-known for having a cold climate, so you may be surprised to find out that there are deserts in Canada, albeit a unconventional. In fact, many of the desert-like regions you'll find in the country are not dry enough to qualify as "true" deserts, but you will still…
The Great Basin National Park is a United States National Park established in 1986, located in east-central Nevada near its border with Utah, five miles west of the town of Baker. It is located in the Great Basin Desert, the dry and mountainous region between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains and the largest of the…
Map of the four major US deserts
Given the great vastness of the US territory we can find within it desert or semi-desert areas, mainly located in the south-western area. There are four main deserts, ranging all the way from the southern border with Mexico to the states of Oregon and Idaho in the north: the Mojave…
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
A list of beach and desert sand dunes in the USA by state. Where are the best sand dunes you can find in the US?
Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. It may sound surprising, for people tend to only consider hot deserts filled with sand dunes and camels, but technically any territory with low precipitation classifies as a desert - including polar and cold deserts. In fact, the Antarctic and Arctic deserts…
The largest celebration of sand art and recreation in South Korea is returning this year after a halt due to the covid pandemic. The Heundae Sand Festival will take place from May 20th to May 23rd in Busan, officially signalling the start of beach season in the country. Every year…
Volcanoboarding on Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala
Guetamala is a lesser known destination for volcano boarding in Central America. The slopes of Pacaya volcano have in fact only become suitable for sandboarding following recent eruptions, the last of which was reported in 2021. Today there are plenty of hiking tours that will take you on top of…
Famous for its unique vegetation and wildlife, much of which cannot be found anywhere else in the planet, Socotra Island is a unique place on Earth, known as the pearl of Yemen and of the entire Arabian region. Ras Erissel, the eastern cape of the island, is also home to milky…