Desert

Alfonse Gabriel (1894 – 1975) was an Austrian geographer and travel writer who made several trips to the deserts of Iran . He also wrote a book named" passing through Persian desert" in which he uses a fascinating expression a bout the desert. He says when one visits the desert for once its charming memory will never set him free. The charm that Gabriel refers to might mostly be a result of a kind of co operation between the three powerful forces of nature, namely wind, water and sun that try to erode the desert for ever more, but the beautiful desert resists and charms on and on and becomes more attractive. The more they scratch the face of the desert and the more they move the sands and dunes what ever is left becomes more impressive and fanciful. They become a part of the charm themselves.

Persian Architectural characteristics
Desert is not all about dunes and wilderness but one of its most important features is the harmony between the life there and the national and religious characteristics of its people reflected in buildings and architecture. The other amazing aspect of the buildings relates to the ecological design of the buildings in a way that they provide comfort for the users even in the harsh climate of the desert. For example residential buildings of the region are comfortable during deferent seasons of the year and moreover louvers, icebox-buildings, lofts, mosques, minarets, bazars (markets), mills, underground-aqueducts etc. all and all do their functions in the best way reflecting the civilization and architecture of deserts in Iran in way that they have always been appreciated globally. Currently Yazd, another Persian citnother persian ave always been apriciated y comfortable during deferent seasens of the yaer y located in the deserts, in on the Unesco`s waiting list to be registered as the second most ancient city in the world.

Desert therapy
It is quite a while now that people of western countries, harassed by the capitalism and materialism imposed on their lives, tend toward eastern cultures and their spiritual manners. Deserts are from places that they mostly intend; to walk bare footed on the warm sands, and to be overwhelmed by the charming silence of the desert to relive inner and mental distresses caused by the tensions, pressures and anxieties of their life manners. Professor Kerdevani says that because there are no holes in the ozone layer above the Loot desert the sun shine here is filtered out of ultraviolet rays and so, not only it is not dangerous but also it has great therapeutic properties. Thus, sand-therapy and sun therapy can be regarded as other important attractions of the desert.