A highlight from my recent Inner Mongolia trip is Kubuqi Desert. This was my first time to experience a desert excursion, while riding a camel and seeing the vast expanse of a seemingly endless dry desert land of Mongolia.

As the one of the largest desert in East Asia, the Kubuqi Desert was once known to Mongolians and Ancient Chinese as the “Sea of Death”. More than 60% of dunes are mobile. And during windy weather, tons of sand can be blown to the nearby Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region overnight.