Visit the Taiwanese version of the Sahara Desert - Caoluo Sand Dunes
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The Caoluo Sand Dunes start from the Laojie Creek in Dayuan District in the north and end at the Dajue Creek in Guanyin District in the south. They run from northeast to southwest. The width of the northern section is about 400 meters, and it widens to 600 meters in the south. Over the past thousands of years, the area has reached 4 square kilometers.
The Caoluo Sand Dunes are a special landscape that stretches 8.1 kilometers and belongs to the "coastal desert". It is also the widest and most complete on the coast of Taiwan. The sand dunes are formed by the accumulation of drifting sand blown to the land by the strong northeast monsoon and the south wind.
When the sun sets, the rows of wind turbines, the sandy shore and the sea are connected in a line; the undulating sand dunes have winding sand patterns that are intertwined and marked with the footprints of tourists, with a quiet and desolate beauty and atmosphere. No wonder many photography experts and Internet celebrities come here to shoot the century-old drifting sand and the dance music of coastal windmills!
Caoluo Sand Dune Geopark has coral reef ecology and rich coastal forest ecology, including salt-tolerant and wind-proof plants such as linden, casuarina, chinaberry, dodder, castor, and galea, which block wind-blown sand and prevent the coastline from receding, and also add a green landscape along the sand dunes.