Cool! The 2000 Year old lake in Chinese Desert

Dunhuang - This is a unique natural phenomenon in Dunhuang, China. There are Crescent Lake is a oasis in the middle of the vast Gobi Desert. The shape is really similar to a crescent moon. Amazingly, the age of the lake is 2,000 years old!

Dunhuang is located in Gansu Province, China. The attraction of this city is the vast Gobi Desert and the traveler can explore by jeep or riding a camel. The lake is located in the middle of the desert called Yueyaquan by local people, which means Crescent Lake.

the Daily Mail, Thursday (01/16/2014) Crescent Lake is located 6 km to the south of Dunhuang. The lake is formed from this oasis was believed to be

Formerly, Crescent Lake is estimated more large. Over the past three decades, the lake is recede due to the hot weather and climate change. Any size smaller.

In 1960, the water reached a depth of 5 meters with an average decrease of one meter in the year. The Chinese government also moved quickly to save this unique lake and make it a tourist attractiveness. Finally, local governments adds volume of the volume of water to the lake since 2006. Luckily, until now Crescent Lake still exists today.

Crescent Lake has a curved shape and really looks like a crescent moon that you normally see at night. Length is about 218 meters from west to east. Its width is 54 meters from north to south.

The view of the lake is really cool. You can ride the dunes that surround it to see the crescent shape of the altitude. You can see it up close, do not pass through the origin guardrail.

Next to Lake Crescent are buildings with pagoda temples. There are also souvenir shops can you flown. In addition to looking at or photographing the Crescent Lake, usually tourists who come there to explore the dunes by camel.

For those of you who are interested to get there, prepare stamina fit. Hot temperatures guaranteed to make the flood of sweat and body easily tired. Obviously, the Gobi Desert area is an area that is dry and rainfall is slight, even can not rain for a year. Even so, get ready to see Lake Crescent amazed there!

over 2,000 years old and formed naturally!