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The road out of Dubai before dawn feels like a ribbon unspooling from the city's glittering spool. Night still clings to the glass and steel of towers behind us, a constellated skyline at ground level, but ahead the dark collapses into open desert. We park on compacted sand beside a van loaded with canvas and a wicker basket big enough to hold a dozen quiet strangers. The air is cooler than I expected-cool enough to make my breath a pale thread. Someone passes a thermos down the line. Coffee tastes different in the desert, less bitter somehow, as if the emptiness takes the edge off.


The burners cough to life, then roar. They sound like a tame dragon clearing its throat, a controlled power that ripples the skin on my forearms with heat. The balloon swells and wakes, its envelope blotting out the last few stars directly above. The pilot-sun-leathered and cheerful in that unforced way of people who know the wind-explains how to climb into the basket. Knees bend. Hands grip the wicker. The ground is suddenly a memory, and the word we came for materializes around us: quiet.


There is a hush I did not know I could still find so near a city that never seems to stop. The burners thunder now and then, but in between their breath we float in a pocket of silence so complete it turns sound into something you can measure by weight. I hear the creak of the basket, a soft canvas sigh, a whisper of air rubbing against air. Down below, the desert rearranges itself into a living map-dunes curved like the muscles of some sleeping animal, pale troughs still shadowed, crests ready to ignite under the coming sun.


Hot air balloon Dubai quiet skies. The phrase had sounded like a promise on a brochure, a marketing line polished smooth by repetition. It turns out to be a true sentence in a place that is mostly known for neon ambition. Here, before the city warms and starts to shimmer, the sky carries a different intention. We're in the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, that protected sweep where tracks on the sand are the only lines that matter. I lean over and spot a thread of oryx prints winding from a patch of ghaf trees to a scatter of scrub, and beyond that, the crisp scalloped edge where wind has spent the night working.


To the east, the first light spills over the serration of low mountains, and a wide, obedient hush attends it.

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We rise through layers of air like turning pages. A smaller balloon floats off our starboard side, its shadow a round coin traveling across the dunes. If I look back, the city looks almost shy, its skyscrapers like glass reeds at the border between manufactured and natural horizons. The Burj Khalifa taps the sky lightly as if not to wake it.


Our pilot plays the currents, small burner bursts interleaved with long glides. He talks about the way the desert teaches without speaking: how heat later in the day makes the air mischievous, how dawn is when the atmosphere behaves. Hot air balloon Dubai video recording . We angle toward a cluster of camels, their outlines inked by the low sun, and for a moment they tilt their long faces up as if casting votes on our presence. A fox stitches across a swale, thread through cloth, and we all forget to take pictures.


Silence becomes a companion rather than an absence. In the city, quiet can feel like a power outage, an interruption. Up here, quiet is the original operating system. I think about how much of Dubai's story is told in superlatives-the tallest, fastest, most. But there's another Dubai, one you find at 4:30 a.m., crouched in sand that still remembers night, tying off the lines of a balloon. It's the Dubai that speaks in camel bells and the soft exhale of a falcon returning to a glove.

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Sometimes, on certain flights, a falconer rides with the basket and sends a bird looping out into the clean air, a living punctuation mark against the dawn. Hot air balloon Dubai sky sightseeing Even without that ritual, something old and precise lives up here where the wind is the only traffic report.


As the sun lifts, the dunes change mood. Shadows shrink to the feet of things; color floods in. The swirl of sand looks wet with light, a lacquered gold that makes you understand why storytellers have always put treasure in the desert. I can trace the road we took out from the city now, a straight geometry scratched onto the land, practical as a ruler. Our balloon drifts like a thought that has escaped the line of argument below. A phone camera clicks somewhere to my left.

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Then the burners fill the gap, and I realize the sound comforts me now, a mechanical heartbeat in an organic sky.


Descent arrives the way morning does: gradual, then all at once.

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The pilot talks us through the landing-knees bent again, hold on, let the ground reintroduce itself. We brush the tops of small bushes and taste a moment of vegetal scent that has no right to be so green out here. Sand reaches up with a soft hand.

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The basket kisses down, skips, settles. Laughter follows, the relieved kind that people share when they've been quiet together and the spell breaks gently.


Back on the ground, the silence changes character. It's wide and warm and made of grains. Footsteps sound extravagant. Someone's ringtone feels like an intruder from a less forgiving world. We help flatten the envelope, walking out a long color onto the sand, our shoes filling with the day. The pilot pours juice into paper cups. In the near distance, heat begins to write its mirages. Farther off, the city polishes its edges for the afternoon.


Later, driving back, the desert grows a little less like a miracle and more like a steady neighbor you can count on. Trucks hum, road signs flick past, and the skyline leans closer, all angle and intent. But some part of me stays with the basket and the thin-strong wicker pressed against my palms. It stays with the bright widening of morning and the knowledge that above a place famous for making noise, there is a roof of quiet anyone can step through long enough to remember how large the sky really is.


When I think of Dubai now, I think of its vertical ambition, yes, but also of its horizontal mercy. I think of the quiet skies that hold a hot air balloon the way a book holds a reader, suspending you just long enough to change the way you return to the ground.

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Arabian Desert
ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة
Desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Map of the Arabian Desert ecoregion
Ecology
Realm Palearctic
Biome deserts and xeric shrublands
Borders
List
  • Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert
  • Mesopotamian shrub desert
  • Middle East steppe
  • North Saharan steppe and woodlands
  • Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert
  • Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
  • Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
Geography
Area 1,855,470[1] km2 (716,400 mi2)
Countries
List
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Iraq
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Iran (khuzestan)
  • Yemen
  • Egypt (Sinai)
Conservation
Conservation status critical/endangered[2]
Protected 4.368%[1]

The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 sq mi).[3] It stretches from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq. It is the fourth largest desert in the world and the largest in Asia. At its center is Ar-Rub' al-Khali (The Empty Quarter), one of the largest continuous bodies of sand in the world. It is an extension of the Sahara Desert.[4]

Gazelles, oryx, sand cats, and spiny-tailed lizards are just some of the desert-adapted species that survive in this extreme environment, which features everything from red dunes to deadly quicksand. The climate is mostly dry (the major part receives around 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain per year, but some very rare places receive as little as 50 mm), and temperatures oscillate between very high heat and seasonal night time freezes. It is part of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome and lie in biogeographical realms of the Palearctic (northern part) and Afrotropical (southern part).

The Arabian Desert ecoregion has little biodiversity, although a few endemic plants grow here. Many species, such as the striped hyena, jackal and honey badger, have died out as a result of hunting, habitat destruction, overgrazing by livestock, off-road driving, and human encroachment on their habitat. Other species, such as the Arabian sand gazelle, have been successfully re-introduced and are protected at reserves.

Geography

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A satellite image of the Arabian Desert by NASA World Wind

The desert lies mostly in Saudi Arabia and covers most of the country. It extends into neighboring southern Iraq, southern Jordan, central Qatar, most of the Abu Dhabi emirate in the United Arab Emirates, western Oman, and northeastern Yemen. The ecoregion also includes most of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and the adjacent Negev desert in southern Israel.[1]

The Rub' al-Khali desert is a sedimentary basin stretching along a south-west to north-east axis across the Arabian Shelf.[5] At an altitude of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), rock landscapes yield to the Rub' al-Khali, a vast stretch of sand whose extreme southern point crosses the center of Yemen. The sand overlies gravel or gypsum plains and the dunes reach maximum heights of up to 250 m (820 ft). The sands are predominantly silicates, composed of 80 to 90% quartz and the remainder feldspar, whose iron oxide-coated grains color the sands orange, purple, and red.

A corridor of sandy terrain known as the Ad-Dahna desert connects the An-Nafud desert (65,000 km2 or 40,389 square miles) in the north of Saudi Arabia to the Rub' al-Khali in the south-east.[citation needed] The Tuwaiq escarpment is an 800 km (500 mi) arc that includes limestone cliffs, plateaus, and canyons.[citation needed] There are brackish salt flats, including the quicksands of Umm al Samim.[2] The Sharqiya Sands, formerly known as Wahiba Sands of Oman are an isolated sand sea bordering the east coast.[6][7]

Climate

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The Arabian Desert has a subtropical, hot desert climate, similar to the climate of the Sahara Desert (the world's largest hot desert). The Arabian Desert is actually an extension of the Sahara Desert over the Arabian peninsula.

The climate is mainly dry. Most areas get around 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain per year. Unlike the Sahara Desert—more than half of which is hyperarid (having rainfall of less than 50 mm (2.0 in) per year)—the Arabian Desert has only a few hyperarid areas. These rare driest areas may get only 30 to 40 mm (1.6 in) of rain per year.

The Arabian Desert’s sunshine duration index is very high by global standards: between 2,900 hours (66.2% of daylight hours) and 3,600 hours (82.1% of daylight hours), but typically around 3,400 hours (77.6% of daylight hours). Thus clear-sky conditions with plenty of sunshine prevail over the region throughout the year, and cloudy periods are infrequent. Visibility at ground level is relatively low, despite the brightness of the sun and moon, because of dust and humidity.

Temperatures remain high year round. In the summer, in low-lying areas, average high temperatures are generally over 40 °C (104 °F). In extremely low-lying areas, especially along the Persian Gulf (near sea level), summer temperatures can reach 48 °C (118 °F). Average low temperatures in summer are typically over 20 °C (68 °F) and in the south can sometimes exceed 30 °C (86 °F). Record high temperatures above 50 °C (122 °F) have been reached in many areas of the desert, partly because its overall elevation is relatively low. [citation needed]

Flora and fauna

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The Arabian Desert ecoregion has about 900 species of plants.[8] The Rub'al-Khali has very limited floristic diversity. There are only 37 plant species, 20 recorded in the main body of the sands and 17 around the outer margins. Of these 37 species, one or two are endemic. Vegetation is very diffuse but fairly evenly distributed, with some interruptions of near sterile dunes.[2] Some typical plants are Calligonum crinitum on dune slopes, Cornulaca arabica (saltbush), Salsola stocksii (saltbush), and Cyperus conglomeratus. Other widespread species are Dipterygium glaucum, Limeum arabicum, and Zygophyllum mandavillei. Very few trees are found except at the outer margin (typically Acacia ehrenbergiana and Prosopis cineraria). Other species are a woody perennial Calligonum comosum, and annual herbs such as Danthonia forskallii.[2]

There are 102 native species of mammals.[8] Native mammals include the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx), sand gazelle (Gazella marica), mountain gazelle (G. gazella), Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana), Arabian wolf (Canis lupus arabs), striped hyaena (Hyaena hyaena), caracal (Caracal caracal), sand cat (Felis margarita), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), and Cape hare (Lepus capensis).[2] The Asiatic cheetah[9] and Asiatic lion[10] used to live in the Arabian Desert. The ecoregion is home to 310 bird species.[8]

People

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The area is home to several different cultures, languages, and peoples, with Islam as the predominant faith. The major ethnic group in the region is the Arabs, whose primary language is Arabic.

In the center of the desert lies Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with more than 7 million inhabitants.[11] Other large cities, such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Kuwait City, lie on the coast of the Persian Gulf.

Natural resources

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Natural resources available in the Arabian Desert include oil, natural gas, phosphates, and sulfur.[citation needed]

Conservation and threats

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Threats to the ecoregion include overgrazing by livestock and feral camels and goats, wildlife poaching, and damage to vegetation by off-road driving.[2]

The conservation status of the desert is critical/endangered. In the UAE, the sand gazelle and Arabian oryx are threatened, and honey badgers, jackals, and striped hyaenas already extirpated.[2]

Protected areas

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4.37% of the ecoregion is in protected areas.[1]

Saudi Arabia has established a system of reserves overseen by the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development (NCWCD).[2]

  • Harrat al-Harrah Reserve (12,150 km2), established in 1987, is on the border with Jordan and Iraq, and protects a portion of the stony basaltic Harrat al-Sham desert. The reserve includes rough terrain of black basaltic boulders and extinct volcanic cones from the middle Miocene. It provides habitat to over 250 species of plants, 50 species of birds, and 22 mammal species.[2]
  • 'Uruq Bani Ma'arid Reserve (12,000 km2) is on the western edge of the Rub’ al-Khali. Arabian oryx and sand gazelle were reintroduced to the reserve in 1995.
  • Ibex Reserve (200 km2) is south of Riyadh. It protects Nubian ibex and a reintroduced population of mountain gazelle.[2]
  • Al-Tabayq Special Nature Reserve is in northern Saudi Arabia, and protects a population of Nubian ibex.[2]

Protected areas in the United Arab Emirates include Al Houbara Protected Area (2492.0 km2), Al Ghadha Protected Area (1087.51 km2), Arabian Oryx Protected Area (5974.47 km2), Ramlah Protected Area (544.44 km2), and Al Beda'a Protected Area (417.0 km2).[12]

See also

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  • ʿĀd
  • Iram of the Pillars

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands". Digital Observatory of Protected Areas. Accessed 19 December 2022. [1]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Arabian Desert". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
  3. ^ "Arabian Desert | Facts, Definition, Temperature, Plants, Animals, & Map | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
  4. ^ "Arabian Desert: Middle East". geography.name. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
  5. ^ "Rub Al-Khali, a photo and short description". A Lovely World.
  6. ^ "The Wahiba Sands". Rough Guides. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
  7. ^ "Sharqiya (Wahiba) Sands, Oman - Travel Guide, Info & Bookings – Lonely Planet". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
  8. ^ a b c Hoekstra JM, Molnar JL, Jennings M, Revenga C, Spalding MD, Boucher TM, Robertson JC, Heibel TJ, Ellison K (2010) The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference (ed. Molnar JL). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  9. ^ Harrison, D. L. (1968). "Genus Acinonyx Brookes, 1828" (PDF). The mammals of Arabia. Volume II: Carnivora, Artiodactyla, Hyracoidea. London: Ernest Benn Limited. pp. 308–313.
  10. ^ Heptner, V. G.; Sludskii, A. A. (1992) [1972]. "Lion". Mlekopitajuščie Sovetskogo Soiuza. Moskva: Vysšaia Škola [Mammals of the Soviet Union, Volume II, Part 2]. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation. pp. 83–95. ISBN 978-90-04-08876-4.
  11. ^ "هيئة تطوير مدينة الرياض توافق على طلبات مطورين لإنشاء 4 مشاريع سياحية وترفيهية" (in Arabic). April 4, 2019. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
  12. ^ UNEP-WCMC (2020). Protected Area Profile for United Arab Emirates from the World Database of Protected Areas, November 2020. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net
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