Rent a car with driver and add a few extra days to visit Kerman region: Bam, Rayen, and Mahan.Go with a taxi for the day for around 900,000 IRR.Feasible, but we did not see many cars on that road while we were there. Take a local bus from Kerman to Shahdad and try hitchhiking from there to the Kaluts.VIP bus tickets from Shiraz and Bandar Abbas would be around 400,000 IRR.įind out more about what to see and where to stay in Kerman.Board one of the many buses, VIP or regular, to Kerman. Like most of Iran main cities, you can easily travel by.Kerman, and then Shahdad, are the best locations to access the Lut Desert. The Lut desert weather is usually dry with almost no rains. So avoid the hottest months of the hottest place in the world to stay away from the hottest temperature on earth! Which means that November to March is the recommended period to travel to the Dasht-e Lut desert. Why is the Lut Desert so hot is thought to come from of the dark sand, the color attracting more heat than the usual golden color.īecause of the extreme heat of the Lut desert, the best months to visit are the “coolest” months. Recordings from the NASA between 20 show that Gandom Beryan, a dark lava plateau in the Dasht e Lut desert, is the hottest land surface on Earth, the highest recorded temperature on the surface reaching 159.3 ☏ (70.7 ☌) as measured in 2005. One of the “cool” (pun intended!) Dasht-e Lut facts is that it’s home to the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. The landscapes of the Lut Desert are indeed quite different than the Dasht e Kavir desert in the south which has some of the tallest sand dunes in the world, some over 980 ft (300 m). Salt flats cover the east side of the Dasht-e Loot plateau, whereas the center of the plateau features the stunning wind-and rain-carved yardang rock formations called the Kaluts. Iran is composed of several basins, Dasht-e Lut (or Dasht-e Loot) being the largest and one of the driest places on Earth, Dasht-e Kavir the other of the deserts of Iran. The longest widespread system of yardangs in the world (120 km long in 80 km wide), the hottest point in the world, as detected by satellite data and the tallest sand pyramid of the world (500 meters high) are only a fraction of the wonders this desert has to offer.Deep in thoughts in the Kaluts Desert Lut Desert Iran The uniqueness of the desert is assured by an abundance of typical phenomena. The east is a sea of sand, described by Alfons Gabriel, one of the first explorers, in 1938, as “a confused mass of impassable tangled dunes.” Winds pile the sand into dunes up to 500 feet high, as tall as Washington's monument. The Lut Desert consists of several large basins separated by worn mountains and ridges, covering an area of about 200 by 100 miles, with the western part containing wind-swept corridors separating high ridges. Research groups took sterilized milk into the Lut desert, stored it uncovered in temperatures in excess of 71 ☌ (159 ☏) in the shade and yet, the milk remained sterile. There are reports that no living creature can survive for long in this region, with Lut generally considered an abiotic zone, being so forbidding that not even bacteria can live. A NASA satellite recorded surface temperatures as high as 71 ☌ (159 ☏), the hottest surface temperature recorded on Earth. The Sun heats these two belts of land more than any other part of Earth and creates deserts. It is part of the northern of the two deserts belts which encircle the Earth. The big desert of Lut is situated in the eastern region of Iran.
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