Festival in "White Sands"

Balloon Festival is held at White Sands National Park, Alamogordo, USA
"White Sands Park is a unique place! When you first get here, you get the complete impression that you are among the icy expanses of the Arctic. And around you there are snow drifts. But looking closely, you notice that these are not a million snow crystals glistening in the sun, but small , thin, almost airy grains of white sand. The sand consists of crystals of gypsum, or rather its variety - selenite. Formed several million years ago at the bottom of a shallow sea bay, selenite layers rose to the surface, crumpled into folding, dried in the sun and under the influence of wind and weather conditions, spread throughout the district, gathering in white dunes "
/ Victoria Rogotneva /