The Gobi's sand dunes 'sing' as wind blows across them

The Gobi Desert carries a particular mystique for Western travelers.

Often thought of as an inhospitable wasteland, the Gobi is surprisingly varied, with canyon lands, sand dunes and enough grass to support scattered herds of horse, camel and goat.

The Gurvan Saikhan (Three Beauties) National Park is the main attraction of the Gobi. Here travelers head for Yolyn Am, a winding canyon that contains ice for most of the year (by late summer most of it will have melted).

Other attractions include towering dunes that apparently 'sing' when they wind blows across them.

North of the park is Bayanzag, the 'Flaming Cliffs' made famous by US explorer Roy Chapman Andrews who found dinosaur fossils here in the 1920s. With a little prospecting, it's still possible to find fossils in the Gobi sands.