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Aerial shot of a park along Rio Grande during Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
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Stormy clouds and some sun over White Sands.
Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand cover 275 square miles of desert, creating the world's largest gypsum dunefield. White Sands National Monument preserves a major portion of this unique dunefield, along with the plants and animals that live here.
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Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand cover 275 square miles of desert, creating the world's largest gypsum dunefield. White Sands National Monument preserves a major portion of this unique dunefield, along with the plants and animals that live here.
We were lucky to visit just after a rare desert storm came along. Although the torrential rain, fortunately, has stopped, the menacing clouds offered a stark contrast with the white sand.
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks NM
The tent rocks, named for the "pointy hats" on top of the pinnacles, are cones of soft pumice and tuff beneath harder caprocks, and vary in height from a few feet to 90 feet. Kasha-Katuwe means "white cliffs" in the local language.
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