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Thar Desert: Sacred Sands
Covering 200,000km sq, India’s Thar desert is one of the harshest places on Earth. Desiccating winds and near-permanent drought has earned this unforgiving land another name: the region of death. Temperatures soar to 50C and less than 5cm of rain falls each year. Yet the Thar is a hotspot for nature and home to some of the toughest and rarest creatures on earth.
