Sun spoils (3)
"Mountains are always the same!" So it sounds like now and then so many mouths. No matter where you are in the Pyrenees, the Andes, the Alps and elsewhere. One thing that really mountains together. Who wants their peak, they must climb.
But they have ever thought, "the desert" in the mountains looking for?
It sounds funny now, perhaps, or even unrealistic. How are you supposed to find a desert in the mountains? I give them a tip. In the Alps.
If they sometimes take a vacation in South Tyrol, they look in the Val Venosta - South Tyrol in the west, sometimes the small mountain community between Schlanders and Naturns on. This town lies at the foot of the mountain Latscher sun. A biologically valuable part of the southern Alps. This happens, happens nowhere else on Earth. By strong trade winds that blow from the south, get seeds and seeds of the Sahara and a lot of sand on the sun-drenched slopes of Val Venosta. The unusual location and the direct sunlight provide the small "blind passengers from the desert," an ideal climate.
In addition, the mangling comes to water. 2010, the mountain village next Gargazon as trockenstes area of South Tyrol was declared. This is the only steppe seeds located. As the cool water helps the numerous whales, famous and ancient irrigation ditch, and not a lot of the Adige river.
Summer temperatures in the 37 ° C and higher, the low humidity and other factors play a length of 10 km together so perfectly, that can grow on Latscher Sonnenberg steppe plants well and prosper.
New is, however, because even the ancient Latscher knew about the importance of the Sonnenberg. Three roses adorn Sun the crest of the small community that has grown, according to legend, when God's character from a dead branch from the Sonnenberg. Say what is already great news. On the one hand, there are tales that are told by grandparents, and then they are stories with a grain of truth in it. Add to this all the biological facts, why should not a desert rose can grow on a dead branch on the Latscher Sonnenberg?
So they keep their eyes on the next time they walk through the Venosta Valley Trail, not replace, the mistake into a cactus. 
Their Carolyn Rinner
As a child I was once there and must say it was impressive anyway. The difference with the other scenery is very striking.