Alphapuggle PieFedThe dunes around Huacachina, Peru. Some are 600 meters high.
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Makes me think of Arrakis.
Is that from high winds? Crazy tall!!
600 meters!
Incredible.
Great view! 600 meters is crazy high!
Looks exhausting.
Is that 600m from bedrock or sea level? Curious how much of that is just sand.
I can’t find anywhere that says. My feeling is it’s sand all the down to the bedrock because there are some very deep valleys. We drove all over them in a dune buggy and there was no bedrock showing anywhere, just sand.
The three tallest dunes in the world are in that general region. #2 is not far at all! Cerro Blanco at 1176m
https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/tallest-sand-dunes-world/
Frank Herbert got the inspiration to write about a Desert Planet after he spent time researching sand dunes and how they move.
I wondered about that. Standing on the top of one of the dunes, I was thinking it looked like Arrakis.
Our planet really is pretty cool. Shame we’re slowly ruining it.
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