Travel The Wilds: World's Least Populated Places

To close out the month of wild places we will visit the coldest, the hottest, and the deepest places on earth. These places are some of the most remote in the world as well as being fairly unpopulated (at least by people). They might be some of the most unlikely tourist destinations, but these destinations are filled with potential adventure. 

Siberia
On the other side of the world lies Siberia, a place almost synonymous with desolation. Like the Canadian North, this wild expanse is also mostly comprised of taiga forest on former glaciated territory -- areas that are blanketed white during harsh, long winters. The average population density is about 3 inhabitants per square kilometer (approximately equal to that of Australia), making Siberia one of the most sparsely populated regions on Earth. Many cities in northern Siberia, such as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, cannot be reached by road, as there are virtually none connecting from other major cities in Russia or Asia. The best way to tour Siberia is through the Trans-Siberian Railway. The Trans-Siberian Railway operates from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east. Cities not near the railway are best reached by air or by the separate Baikal-Amur-Railway

Antarctica
Being on the bottom of the world brings forth the coldest, windiest, and driest conditions on the planet. It's no wonder most of it is untouched by man. Besides a few research bases scattered sparsely around the icy continent, Antarctica is virtually uninhabited -- except by the iconic penguins of course, who might want to leave themselves if only they had the ability to fly -- and if they hadn't been adapted for the extreme conditions already. Encounter whales, seals and penguins by the thousands. Cruises take you past icebergs, as you gaze into a midnight sunset and feel the crunch of ice under your boots as you walk where few have ever stepped. 

The Sahara
The Sahara is the second largest desert in the world -- Antarctica, with only 2" of rain per year is technically the world's biggest desert. With 3.5 million square miles of barren land full of wind-carved sand dunes, it brings forth daytime heat waves and harsh dry conditions unappealing to most civilizations; it's wild because most people couldn't live there. However some civilizations have made this their home as well as many different types of animals.

The Gobi Desert
Situated in Mongolia, the largest desert in Asia is actually growing, with sands overtaking grasslands in northern China -- which isn't good news for Chinese farmers. Perhaps it's Mother Nature's way of taking back her sandy wilderness, making conditions uninhabitable for humans.

The Briny Deep
It's astounding that with everything humans have done to inhabited a lot of the land mass on the planet, about 70% of it remains uninhabited because it is water. The oceans, vast and seemingly limitless, are an inner space full of many things that we probably don't even know about yet. It's taken centuries for humans to actually explore the deepest part of the ocean, Mariana's Trench, and we only saw a mere fraction of it. There's a whole wild world within our world, yet to be explored-or remain untouched? 

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