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25 July 2008
"The Tottori Sand Dunes are unique sand dunes located near Tottori City in Tottori Prefecture, Honshū, Japan." (wikipedia)
I think that is correct ID. Colour looks right & found in dunes @ Sandwich bay where the book says this is best place to find this parasitic flower. No chlorophyll of it's own & gets all it's nutrients as a parasite on the roots of the Bedstraw plant. Also know as the Clove-scented Broomrape. Not a member of the Orchid family but I am putting it in that album
Footprints in the sand
The original article for this image lives at tokyo.japantimes.co.jp/post/en/861/Tottori.html
Rare storm clouds cast shadows across the massive dunes of the Namib Desert, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia.
Sand castle making contest at the "Himala sa Buhangin!" music and arts festival held May 10, 2014 in the sand dunes of Paoay, Ilocos Norte in celebration of the La Milagrosa Provincial Fiesta.
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www.ilocosnorte.gov.ph / www.flickr.com/ilocosnorte for hi-res photos (PGIN CMO Photo / Alaric A. Yanos)
Another environmental project area taking place in the same area between dunes and and spoil tips.
Photo by RB.
Teilanschicht der Sanddüne Rubjerg Knude in Nordjütland, Dänemark. Versuch der Minderung des Flugsandtreibens durch Dünenbefestigung mit Reisern.
Huacachina is a village in the Ica Region, in southwestern Peru. It is located in the Ica Province, near the city of Ica in the Ica District. Huacachina has a population of 115 (1999). The oasis features on the back of the 50 Nuevo Sol note.
Huacachina is built around a small natural lake in the desert. Called the "oasis of America," it serves as a resort for local families from the nearby city of Ica, and increasingly as an attraction for tourists drawn by the sports of sandboarding and taking dune buggy rides on sand dunes that stretch several hundred feet high.
Legend holds that the lagoon was created when a beautiful native princess was apprehended at her bath by a young hunter. She fled, leaving the pool of water she had been bathing in to become the lagoon. The folds of her mantle, streaming behind her as she ran, became the surrounding sand dunes. And the woman herself is rumored to still live in the oasis as a mermaid.