The Gobi Desert from the Air

The Gobi Desert, or 戈壁 in Chinese, is the desert that's between Mongolia and China and is considered to be one of the largest deserts in the world. I was in China, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu Province, which was one of the most important places to be in the ancient Silk Road and it's also where the Great Wall of China ends. Flying over this region is an amazing spectacle: For awhile, all you see are patches of land, where there was never a soul nor is there a single building. It is surrounded by the Altai Mountains and the steppes of Mongolia on the north, the Tibetan Plateau and the North