Meaning of Kumtag Desert | Babel Free

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A desert in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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“People stand⟳ in shape⟳ as Olympic Rings to celebrate⟳ the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at Kumtag desert region in Shanshan County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region June 23, 2007.”

““DO YOU BELIEVE⟳ the voices are real?” My Chinese guide⟳ and I were standing in the Yardang National Geopark, on the border⟳ between Gansu Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China’s extreme northwest. The nearest town was Dunhuang, 110 miles to the southeast. Enormous yardangs — curving sandstone and mudstone strata carved by winds — towered over us. Others floated on the far horizon. “You mean⟳ the singing sands?” I asked. On my map, an asterisk marked this strange feature of the Kumtag Desert, three miles from Dunhuang. If you throw⟳ yourself down the dunes in that place⟳, the air resonates — sometimes like⟳ the lowest note⟳ on a cello; sometimes like⟳ a crack of thunder.”

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