Skardu Desert, Pakistan.

One hears of deserts in plains but never at the foothills of 18,000 feet high snow covered mountains!

Skardu Valley is one such place which is carpeted in fine ash white sand through which greenish blue in winter; grey as tarnished silver in summer, the Indus snakes lazily between wind-ribbed sand dunes.

Picture Credit: Nadeem Khawar.