The Beauty of Oasis in the Middle of Desert
87Today is the most beautiful day for me to write this hub. I am gonna take you tour in the special place. This place is far away from modern, technology and pollutions. There’s a question for us, where is the coldest place in the world? I thought the wise answer is at the North Pole or Antartica. Another question, where is the hottest places in the world? The best answer is at the desert.There are many categories on Hubpages, but travel and places is always my favorite. This time I’ll write about traveling in speciality place and at the same time we learn about another part of the earth. We may not give attention to this place. Actually we can see this in beautiful side. I want to take you traveling in the middle of desert. Have you ever heard about oasis? I thought desert is unusual place for traveling. Maybe there’s a question in our mind, why we should visiting desert. What can we found in the middle of the desert? an open wide area of sands with very hot weather. But actually there’s an emphasized in the middle of the desert. If you were alone in the desert, what do you need? You need water, right. Or maybe you need the coolest place under the tree. Actually you need something refreshment. Oasis is the coolest place in the middle of the desert. What is oasis actually? I’ll explain below. So, please continue to read………
A little about Oasis
Oasis (in plural: Oases) is an area in a desert where the water reaches the surface, where the vegetation permited to grow because of enough moisture. The water may come up from the springs, so a permanent supply of fresh water is available. Oases vary in size from about 2.5 acres (1 hectare). This place around small spring to vast of areas of naturally watered. We can see people also live in this place. For example, the two-thirds of the populations of the Sahara live in oases. The date palm is the main source food. Other plants are citrus fruits, figs, peaches, apricots, vegetables, and cereal grains. The people got the water from sandstone aquifers. I heard that artificial oases have been successfully created by using tube wells on Sahara. Actually there is different size of oases, ranging from a pond with a group of date palms. We can see this at the deserts of Arabia. The ice-free dry valleys of Antarctica also called oases. As we know that Antartica as the coolest area in the world. Scientist called these oases because Antartica supporting life and it was surrounded by a barren ice desert. Most of oasis was located in isolated area. Oases also provide habitat for animals and even humans (Wikipedia).
I heard the history of oases was started thousand years ago. The ancient Egyptians were the witnesses of the desert in North Africa. The oases were not only for of green fertile land but also of civilization. Other source said that Oasis as a fertile place in the Libyan Desert. We can find this information in Samuel Purchas's 1613 travel book. He is English speakers were first becoming world travelers. But now we can see an oasis as the peaceful and flourishing place which is contrast with its surrounding (in the desert).
From Wikipedia I collected many oases in the world. In Africa we can see Bahariya, Siwa and Farafra Oasis (Egypt), Gaberoun and Kufra Oasis (Libya), M'Zab Valley, Timimoun and Ouargla (Algeria), Tafilalt (Morocco), Tozeurv(Tunisia), but Nile River valley is claimed as the world's biggest oasis by The Guinness Book of World Records with width about 22,000 square kilometers (Egypt).
In America we can see Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Twentynine Palms - California, Warm Springs Natural Area , Las Vegas Valley but it grown into a metropolitan area, La Cienega, New Mexico (All these oases located in United States), Huacachina (Peru), Mulege and San Ignacio, Baja California Sur (Mexico).
In Asia we can see Al-Qatif as the largest oasis on the coast of the Persian Gulf, Al Ahsa, the largest oasis in Asia (both of these oases located in Saudi Arabia), Ein Gedi (Israel), Azraq (Jordan), Liwa (United Arab Emirates), Loulan, Marin, Turpan, Yarkand (China), Tabas (Iran).
In Australia we can see Palm Valley at the Central Australia. Please enjoy the pictures of other oases below.
Umm-al-Maa Oasis (Mother of Water), Lybia
This oases located near Fezzan and 30 km north of Germa, Libya. Many people called this mother of water, because this is the biggest lake in middle of oasis. The levels of salt in Umm-al-Maa oasis was the same as in the Dead Sea. The high salt in the lake Umm Al-Maa make you easy to float when bathing here. Are you interest? you can put this place in your travel list.
Huacachina Oasis, Peru
This oasis located at southwestern Peru, Hucachina itself is a small oasis town in the Ica area. We can find popular resort around this oasis with foreign and domestic tourists. That’s why this place called "Oasis of Americas". There’s a story behind the forming of this oasis, a long time ago there’s a hunter disturbing a princess who was taking a bath. Then the princess was disappeared leaving a pool of water. Now we can see this as lakes in the middle of desert.
Chebika Oasis, Tunisia
At this place Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was made. Chewbacca as one of the characters name in the film was taken from this place. If you love Star Wars film, you may knew this place very well. Please check this out!
Creescent Lake Oasis at Gobi Desert, China
This is kind of lake in the middle of desert. This place located on the edge of an ancient city that can be found on the journey along the Silk Road to the West. Because it is used directly by farmers and because of growing population made this lake began to dry up and down more than 25 feet in 30 years. Personally, this is so great and beautiful. Creescent Lake is a wonder in Gobi Desert.
Turpan Oasis, China
Turpan also known as Tulufan, an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uygur region, China. Turpan oasis located just 8 km west of the ruins of Jiaohe city.
Timia Oasis at Sahara Desert, Nigeria
Timia oasis located in the Northern Nigeria. Timia is the most beautiful oasis in this country. Not only because of the lake in the middle of desert around the palm trees. There’s beautiful garden with citrus and pomegranates are ready to be picked and eaten, don’t forget we must pay for this. Several kinds of other fruit trees, cereals, and vegetables are also grown here. That’s why this place looks green.
Oasis at Oman
This oasis was hidden in the desert of Oman. I heard that oasis at Oman often used as a botanical studies in the field of agro-biodiversity.
Palm Valley, Central Australia
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Thank you very much, daravuthz for coming to this hub and your compliment about my hub. I hope you enjoy this information. Have a good day, my friend!
Prasetio
Wow these are amazing photos of the most beatiful oasis in the middle of the desert. I too would have guessed the north pole being the coldest place.
Amazingly beautiful Prasetio. This is the first time I've seen these. Thank you dear nephew!
You come up with the greatest stuff. I would like to visit an oasis, but I often wondered what happen to the places during a sand storm.
An Oasis,to me,comes as a devine gift to those who may be lost,thanks for sharing,Prasetio.;)
This was such an interesting hub and the photos are beautiful. I really enjoyed it - thanks for sharing!
I've heard the term, "an oasis in the desert" but hadn't actually seen one.
These photos are beautiful. Thanks for sharing this.
Another lesson from Prasetio. My friend thank you for always teaching me new things about beautiful places. Beautiful photos too, excellent hub! Peace and Love!! Tom
Your photos are amazing. I always learn something new from your hubs.
Hi Prasetio
You find such interesting and beautiful photos to illustrate your hubs. I know that whenever I visit your hubs I will find out something new.
Amber:)
Hi, prasetio. Thank you for your dutiful research in finding the relevant information and all the beautiful photos of oases around the world. Really spectacular, my friend.
Wow, another kind of beautiful nature! Prasetio, without doubt you are the King Tour Guide in Hubland, taking us to the most amazing and extra-ordinary places on earth. Thank you, sir, I appreciate your hubs tremendously. You are one of the hubbers that make HubPages a very special site. I am so glad I became your follower. Take care!
Oh WOW Pras, This is so beautiful and the pictures are so life like. I love the desert and hot climates and this Oasis in the Middle of the desert is pure heaven.
You never cease to come up with something above and beyond my wildest dreams. I love this, rate it up and feel so excited and happy having experienced this great get a way! Thanks friend! :) Katie
Wow this was beautiful and exciting. Very beautiful pictures is just and added bonus.
Thanks, rpalulis for share your thought about this topic. I also excited to know that there's an oasis in Antartica. You are right about North Pole, my friend. Good to see you again. ~prasetio
Your welcome, my uncle. I hope you entertained with all these informations about oases. Have a good day!
Your nephew, prasetio
Good morning, Pete. I am glad to met you again. Hopefully you can visit one of these oases. The biggest oases would be fine, but maybe the small one would be covered by the sand. But I don't exactly knew about this. There should a research to know about this. God bless you, my friend.
Love and peace,
Mentalist acer, my friend good to see you here. I agree with you, this is a great gift for us. Oasis like a hidden place in the middle of desert. No one would seeing this if they didn't really know about this place. Thank you very much. ~prasetio
Thanks, Amy Jane for dropping by. I am so happy that you enjoy this information. I hope this hub useful for us...amen. God bless you.
Prasetio
Good to see you again, Pamela N Read. I hope we can learn about this natural wonder as a big gift from God. I send my beautiful smile to you. Cheers....
Hi, Justom. I am so happy to know that you enjoy with this information. I am proud to present this hub for you. I hope we can learn together about oasis as a beautiful place on the earth. See you again! ~prasetio
Prasetio, Your pictures are stunning. I have never seen pictures of that area of the world before. You always find the most beautiful pictures and I so enjoy your hubs.
Good morning, POP. I hope you entertained with information about oases and all the pictures here. Thank you very much. Love and peace!
Good morning, Amber Allen. Thanks for dropping by. I am impressed with your comment about my hub. I'll do the best and I try to give us useful information like this one. Just keep in touch. I hope we can share and exchange some great article. God bless you!
Prasetio
My friend, drbj. I am honored with this. I try to give the best for us by doing research. I am probably just a private teacher, but my passion in writing never stop. I am glad you always interested to all my hubs. Thank you very much. You are my favorite too. Take care!
Good morning, MartieCoetser. You made my day so beautiful after read your comment. I got a new spirit and you gave me new motivation in doing the best. I am glad that you always love my work, you always visit to my hub and share your comment too. Thanks for your compliment to this hub. Have a good day. ~prasetio
Hi, Katie. I am so happy to read your comment and how you appreciate this hub. I thought you have a passion in this place. Of course, dear friend desert is the best place to get "hot " climate. I never doubt about that. Hopefully you can visit one of these desert someday. Thanks for always gave your vote to my hub. I really appreciate that. Love and peace, Prasetio
What a fun hub, and your pictures are so beautiful, it looks almost like resort living. So breathtaking, thank you for this wonderful hub, I rate you up, love & peace darski
Thank you for helping me see the world my friend!
Thanks, Rhonda Waits for stopping by. I am glad that you enjoy this hub. I hope we can learn much from this information and at the same time it could be a good option for traveling idea.
Blessing,
Pamela, my research for almost two days has been paid off with your valuable comment. Hopefully, you enjoy all the informations about oasis as the beautiful places to visit. Thank you very much. God bless you.
Prasetio
Good morning, Darski. I am glad you liked this information. I agree with you that some of these oases as a resort. I hope we can visit one of these places someday. Thanks for give your vote to this hub. I really appreciate that. Deep in my heart, I wanna say, "thank you very much". You still my best friend. Cheers....
Blessing,prasetio
Your welcome, ghomefitness. Nice to see you again. I hope you always enjoy read all my hubs, including this one. Take care!
Hi prasetio30, this was a great hub I especially enjoyed the beautiful pictures - it's a paradise that is for sure. Cheers!
Thanks for the nice photos and the info. I enjoyed your hub a lot. Great!!!!!
You really have a talent for finding interesting topics to write here, prasetio. Very informational and beautiful!
Good evening, Whidbeywriter for coming to this hub. I am glad you enjoy all information here. I agree with you about this place. For me this is a paradise among the hottest place. We can check this from the pictures, right! Take care....
Thanks, Sun Pen 50 for dropping by. Please enjoy this hub. Have a good day. ~prasetio
Welcome to this hub, PegCole17. Nice to see you again. I am glad you liked this information. I hope this hub useful for us, at least we know about another part of the world, that is oasis. I'll do the best to make such of beautiful hub. God bless you.
Prasetio:)
Beautiful pics Prasetio. Thanks for the info - I almost got my swimming trunks out.
Good evening, amillar. My friend, welcome back to my hub. I hope you enjoy this information. Of course, don't forget to take your swimming trunks. It looks good idea for swimming in a hot day. Cheers....
Another magnificient and detailed hub from you, prasetio. thank you for your research
The photos speak for themselves. The Oasis is so beautiful.
Well Prasetio, you've done it again ! Very beautiful, places i really never heard of. You have that special niche to find the really unusual and rare places in our world. Thank you my good friend.
God Bless
WOW prasetio30, This is an amazing hubpage. I enjoyed it very much! These oases are unbelievable creations of nature. They are absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for showing us this beauty! :)
another beautiful hub my friend, The pictures are awesome, some of the most beautiful places on earth. God Bless my friend
Ah, what an artist our creator is...thank you for pointing out so much of it to us prasetio.
This is another beautiful hub my friend and thanks for enlightening us with these wonderful places. Our planet is an amazing place and you're amazing for sharing these wonders with us!
God bless you Prasetio!
Your welcome, Hello, Hello. Thanks my friend for share your thought here. I hope you enjoy this information. God bless you. ~Prasetio
Thanks, Sandyspider for coming to this hub. I am glad you enjoy all the pictures here. Nice to see you again. Take care!
Good morning, Ruby. I am glad to know how you appreciate my work, especially for these places. I know maybe some of us never heard about this before. But through HubPages I want to share a beauty of oases to all of you. I hope you enjoy this hub. Have a good day! ~prasetio
Thanks, my friend samiaali for dropping by. I thought these places a miracle of God. Where we can see a water in the middle of desert, as we knew desert is one of the hottest place in the world. This like a hidden place where a very rare people visiting this place, right. I am proud to present this hub for you. Love and peace!
Good to see you again, vietnamvet68. Thanks for gave a lot of appreciation to this hub. I'm not doubt that these all one of the beautiful places in the world. I give my smile to you. God bless you too.
Prasetio
Thanks, Polly for giving your time to visit this hub. I hope you enjoy this information as the miracle of God. Have a good day!
Blessing and hugs,
Welcome to this hub, Ritchi. I agree with you said before that our planet is amazing place, where we can see beautiful place like oases. I hope we can learn about oases as a place where it support a mankind life. God bless you too, my friend.
Prasetio
I always love the pictures you put up--they are totally amazing and inviting. I marvel how water can exist in places of dryness--a wonderful creation of God. Thanks for the hard work you put in this to bring us the wonder of nature.
What beautiful photos, prasetio. The areas of water surrounded by sand look stunning. Thank you for a fascinating look at oases.
...your hubs are the beauties in the oasis in the middle of the hub desert .....and it dosen't get any better than this beautiful hub ----- nice tribute to you by Sir Micky Dee by the way - well, you deserve it my friend - you're awesome!!!!!!
Beautiful oasis pictures, prasetio30 - all that lush greeness against the harshness of the desert. Very special and very beautiful
Hi Prasetio, great hub as usual and I enjoy the pics very much. Thank u:)
Oh take me there, any one of these, they're so beautiful, all of them. Thanks prasetio30, for the education also about what Oasis really is. Of course, I rated it up!
I had no idea we had an oasis in Australia, thanks for showing us that one and all the other beautiful places. I would love to be able to travel more but for now your hubs help me to 'virtually' travel, thanks Prasetio.
Good morning, anglnwu. This is a miracle of the world, like you said before we can saw this in the driest place. A part of the earth where we never touched this before, but oases are totally amazing. Thank you very much, my friend. I hope you like this. Cheers....
Thanks, AliciaC for coming to this hub and how you liked this information. Your comment really appreciated. Have a good day, my friend. Love and peace!
Thanks, epigramman for your compliment about me. I just a private teacher who always learn and learn something, even you are my teacher in life. You are my favorite too, as a king of poem. Like my uncle Micky. I send my live and pray to you. God bless you. ~prasetio
Welcome to this hub, CMHypno. A hubland where we can find something green against the harshness of the desert, like you said before. I can imagine how we enjoy these places between the hottest place and the driest weather. Thank you very much for coming. See you.....
My dear friend, evilia_lim. Thanks for coming this hub. Hopefully you enjoy all information here. Actually I really want to see this place in person. Take care!
fastfreta, good to see you again. I am so happy that you really enjoy with this information. Of course, I'll take you there. Don't worry, my friend. Thanks for giving your vote to this hub. I hope this is become a special tour for us...amen. God bless you.
Love and peace, Prasetio
Thanks, MPG Narratives for giving big appreciation to this hub. Actually I didn't know nothing include the oasis in Australia after doing research more, it open my eyes about the existence of many oases in the world. I hope we can go to one of these places someday. Take care!
Prasetio,
What amazing pictures and very interesting information! Thanks so much for sharing. This was a beautiful hub!
Those pictures are amazing indeed! Blue water in the middle of dry desert really refreshing view. For those who already travelling so far on the desert, to have oasis must be like heaven. So beautiful, masya Allah! Thank you, Pras. You always have great Hub for us to enjoy. ^_^
Thanks, erthfrend for coming to this hub. I am glad you enjoy this information. That's why I collect many beautiful pictures of oases. Take care!
Good to see you again, Freya. I am glad to read your comment and how you liked oases as the beautiful place in the world. I agree with you that blue water is a contrast , view and very amazing scenery in the middle of the desert. Have a good day, my friend.
Love and peace,
A magnificent hub of pure beauty. The photographs are amazing. God Bless You.
Hi Prasetio! Such beautiful pictures! Wile visiting the beautiful Anza Borrego desert in Southern California, my husband and I came upon a small oasis. What a cool place. As we were leaving shortly before dusk, we met a young man who was going to camp there, alone. Don't think I'd want to do that. All kinds of critters must show up at night for a drink!
Thanks, star439 for coming to this hub. I hope you enjoy all the pictures of beautiful oases. God bless you too.
Good morning, Dolores MOnet. I am glad to see you again. Thanks for coming to this hub and share about Anza Borrego desert in Southern California. I never heard about this desert before. I believe this desert also beautiful. Ha ve a good day!
Prasetio
Great hub as always, Prasetio - fantastic pics!!!
These places are so amazing.I always try to find a place to go where we live. Some times We are lucky. Sometimes not.
I could picture myself living in one of these beautiful spots. Absolutely beautiful hub and wonderful pictures.
Thanks, Audrey for dropping by. I am glad to see you again. Hopefully you liked this information. Cheers...
Good evening , BJBenson. I agree with you that these palce are so amazing. I hope you lucky landing at this hub. Have a good day!
Prasetio
Hi, BobbiRant. My friend, I give many thanks to you for coming to this hub. Oases are great places to visit as an alternative for traveling. God bless you. ~prasetio
Gosh, Pras. These are really some awesome and beautiful photographs you've got. The beauty of these oasis can really be felt by just looking at the photos. You've done your research tremendously well, hub up my friend.=)
Beautiful, Beautiful Hub!!!! Thank you for the fabulous pics and info!
Good to see you again, hubpageswriter. My friend, thanks for your compliment about this hub. Simple word from me, I hope you enjoy with the oases including with the pictures. Your comment really appreciated. Take care!
Prasetio:)
Your welcome, mecheshier. I hope you enjoy all information about oases. I believe you want to visit and see this personally. Have a good day!
Prasetio, Marvelous hub! You have provided us with a thorough and informative well researched project! What breathtaking illustrations...!
Thank you for always sharing such exciting and wonderful themes! In HIS Love, Grace, Joy, Peace & Blessings!
Thank you very much, DeBorrah for share your opinion about this hub and your compliment about me. I needed two days doing research before post this hub. I am glad you enjoy with this information. I hope our heart always calm down like an oasis...amen. God bless you.
Prasetio
this is a great web site i love looking at the pics
I hope you enjoy this information, including the pictures. Good to see you hee, kat98312. Take care!
Very informative, and beautiful pictures. I enjoyed reading this hub a lot.
Your welcome, Blair Rockefeller. I am glad you enjoy reading this hub. Good to see you here. Cheers.... ~prasetio
Amazing collection of photos, Prasetio. Once again you have introduced us to parts of the world where these oasis exist and of which many of us were most probably unfamiliar. Thank you! Rating this up, beautiful, awesome and useful.
Good morning, Peggy. I am glad to see you again and share your thought about this topic. I hope we can learn something about this place. You may visit one of these oases someday. Thanks for rating up. Take care!
Love and peace,
Peru deff gets my vote, you picked some really stunning pictures my friend, thanks for sharing their beauty.
Your welcome, TattoGuy. I hope you entertained with all information here, including all the pictures of these oases. Love and peace! ~prasetio
These are all amazingly beautiful. Sort of a simile to life, when we're going through what seems like a desert time, a beautiful oasis opens up! v/r
Thanks, Support Med for dropping by. I am glad you enjoy this information. Desert is good alternative for us as traveling destinations. We might to try to visit these places someday. God bless you!
Prasetio
daravuthz 16 months ago
I never heard about Oasis before Prasetio. Thanks for the info, great explanation and beautiful pictures. I look forward to reading more about your hubs :D