The desert that I have chosen is the Arabian Desert in the
country of Bahrain. I lived there for
one year and was able to see many different parts of the desert there. Bahrain is an island just off the coast of Saudi
Arabia in the Arabian Gulf. The main reason there is a desert there is because
of the lack of rain and the high temperatures.
They normally average about 5-6 inches of rain a year. Although when I was there, they had record
rain fall and got 5-6 inches in one rainstorm.
The whole island was flooded and there wasn’t any place for the water to
go. In between April and October, the
temperature is over 100 degrees and the winter months it is between 70-80
degrees. There the sand is made of small
aluminum pieces and therefore Bahrain has one of the largest aluminum plants in
the world. There is not a lot of vegetation
in desert there but there are some small trees and Cacti. One famous tree there is the tree of
live. It is a Prosopis cineraria tree in
the middle of the desert with nothing else around it. The tree of life is over 400 years old and believed
to have mystical powers from the garden of Eden. Other then being really hot Bahrain was good
place to live. Below is a picture I took while at a camel farm.
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