The Chara Sands is an area of sand in Siberia near the Kodar and Udokan mountain ranges. It is a small desert 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) wide by 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) long, located in the Charsk basin amid the valleys of Chara, Middle Sakukan and Upper Sakukan rivers. The rapid change from the pine and larch forests and peat bogs to the sand has no transition zone—this is one of the peculiarities of this unusual area, besides the roaming sand dunes and the oases that emerge among them.
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File:Chara sands 2013 NASA.jpg|Chara Sands, Zabaikalsky region File:Чарские пески, вид с самолета.jpg| File:Чарские Пески. Чудо-природы.jpg|Solitary dwarf pines and larchs File:Озеро Алёнушка в Чарских Песках.jpg|Lake Alyonushka File:Озеро Аленушка.jpg|Lake Alyonushka at night File:Уникальная пустыня Кодара - Чарские Пески (5 x 10 км).jpg|The edge of the sandy area. File:Цветущие пески.jpg|Blooming in the Chara Sands File:Чарские пески 1.jpg| File:Чарские пески 2.jpg| File:Чарские пески 3.jpg| File:Чарские пески в предгорьях Кодара.jpg|High dune ridge near the foothills of Kodar File:Kodar from charskie peski.jpg|The Kodar mountain range with the Chara Sands in the foreground near Novaya Chara ==References==