How dangerous is the Sahara desert? Why don't even people nearby dare to go in easily?

Many people know about the Sahara desert from Sanmao's love story.

She and her beloved Jose spent the happiest time of their lives in the Sahara desert.

The harsh environment in the desert is beautiful for Sanmao. She has lived in this barren land for several years. The wind and sand eroded her face and hurt her skin. The sun scorched the wheat on her, but she didn't mind at all.

Anyone who has read Sanmao's story yearns for the free and broad life in the Sahara desert.

I have to say that Sanmao's days in Sahara have added a lot of inspiration to her later writing, but many of them are written around her lover Jose.

Because of love, she can endure the harsh environment, have the favorite person to accompany her, and eat hard pancakes. But with Jose's death, Sanmao returned to Taipei.

If you go to the Sahara desert with the same feelings, you may feel very collapsed, because the harsh environment there is beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Moreover, the Sahara desert is considered to be one of the most unsuitable places for living things in the world.

To get this name, the Sahara desert is a real skill, and it is a really dangerous place, and even people nearby dare not go in easily.

The Sahara desert is called the danger zone, largely because its desert area is vast, almost comparable to that of the United States, but there is endless sand everywhere.

The United States is the largest country in the world, and the Sahara desert can be compared with it, which shows the horror of this desert. If you are trapped, you can't imagine how to get out.

In addition to its large area, the climate in the Sahara desert is equally harsh.

Without the care of green vegetation, the Sahara desert is scorched by the sun during the day, and the temperature can be as high as 35 degrees, but it can be reduced to about 0 degrees at night, which is not very friendly to people.

Moreover, not everyone can bring down jackets into the desert. After all, who would have thought that the temperature in the desert could be as low as single digits?

If people don't have good cold protection measures, they will freeze to death here in minutes, so the Sahara desert is really dangerous and uninhabitable, and people nearby dare not go in easily.

Why is this happening?

Because the Sahara desert is not as flat as grassland, the temperature is low at high altitude and high at low altitude. If people are trapped and can't tell the direction, it is very dangerous, and the Sahara desert is so big that ordinary mobile phones can't make calls at all.

Without the experience of living in the wild and the guidance of local people, it is difficult for ordinary people to come out.

In addition to the harsh environment, there are many poisonous plants and animals living in the Sahara desert. Some succulents are actually extremely toxic. In addition to abdominal pain, people will die seriously.

It is terrible enough to be killed by invisible plants, but there may be vicious cobras in the desert. Even in the oasis, you should be more careful. The little crocodile gently opens its mouth to you from the water.

If you don't rescue in time, death is not far from you.

Some people say that I don't eat indiscriminately, so I should be careful not to touch cobras and other animals. Just a sip of water. If so, you are wrong again.

The water in the Sahara desert is not as clear as you think, and it may be mixed with many germs. This kind of water source can be enjoyed not only by human beings, but also by animals.

Drinking water directly without treatment may lead to bacterial poisoning, and people nearby are afraid to try it easily.

The reason why the Sahara desert is dangerous is not only the geographical environment, but also the man-made part.

Africa's underdeveloped economy has bred many people's desire to change the environment and make big money.

But Africa's resources are limited. People who want to get rich will think of some crooked ways. And many gangsters also took a fancy to the Sahara desert here. Some people began to play tricks on tourists traveling in the Sahara desert. They began to kidnap these tourists and demanded a lot of ransom, so people nearby were afraid to enter the Sahara desert easily.

In 2008, an Austrian couple was suddenly kidnapped while traveling in the Sahara desert in an off-road vehicle. The kidnappers were suspected of demanding a ransom of 5 million euros. The couple had been kidnapped for 8 months.

It can be seen that although the Sahara desert symbolizes freedom, it is also dangerous. Who knows what will happen next?

When you are in a foreign land and don't speak English, you really need to protect your life. With the Sahara desert being excavated as a tourist attraction, many people want to travel.

But remember to follow a good tour group and a rest assured tour guide to better avoid injury.

In addition to kidnapping, drug crimes here are also shocking.

Because of the harsh environment here and the limited area managed by the government, many drug dealers use the Sahara desert as a transit point or sales area for drugs.

And the living standards of people here are not high. Because of poverty, many people take risks and take the road of drug trafficking.

And because of ignorance, many people have the habit of taking drugs, so many people work for drugs.

People nearby are afraid to enter the desert easily, for they are afraid of meeting drug dealers. After all, you don't know whether they will ask you to help him or even fall into the pit of drugs. To put it bluntly, it is because people here are poor, and poverty is not afraid of poverty. What are they afraid of?

Why did Sanmao leave the Sahara desert? The point is that the back area has become unsafe. Later, in the process of taking refuge, Jose also lost his life.

Studies have found that, in fact, 5000 years ago, the middle of the Sahara desert was inhabited, and there were rich green vegetation there. Archaeologists found traces of human life, but why did the Sahara desert become a barren desert behind it?

It is estimated that due to human factors, excessive land reclamation led to soil erosion and large-scale land desertification, so the Sahara desert gradually formed.

The Sahara desert brings disasters to nearby areas every year. If it is not protected and managed, the area of the Sahara desert will only grow bigger and bigger. For people, the living environment may be less and less.

In the end, only human beings are suffering the consequences. The distant Brazilian Amazon has also been overexploited by human beings. At this rate, it may be the next Sahara desert.