Dašt-e Registan

The Registan is a vast sandy desert south of Kandahar, bounded to the west by the Helmand and to the north by the Arghestan. Its dunes give way in places to broad gravel plains. Summers are intensely hot and winters cold; shrubs and grasses grow sparsely in hollows where rare rainfall collects. Near the Helmand, pastoralists have used parts of the desert as winter grazing for sheep, goats and camels.