Tharparkar Desert

The Tharparkar desert stretches across southeastern Sindh in a landscape of sand ridges, thorny scrub and scattered villages. Rainfall is sparse and uncertain, and pastoral communities move livestock in search of seasonal grazing. Wells and rain-fed ponds support people and animals between the dunes. In the south the granite Karoonjhar hills rise above the sands, with old Hindu and Jain shrines marking routes through the dry country.