A view of the Sand Dunes at the Deserts of Iran. The Lut Desert, widely referred to as Dasht-e Lut, is a large salt desert located in the provinces of Kerman and Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. It is about 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) by 320-kilometre-wide (200 mi) with a total surface area of about 77,600 km2 (30,000 sq mi), making it the Earth's 24th largest desert. Dasht-e Kavir (Persian: دشت كوير‎, lit. Dasht-e Kavir: Or Great Salt desert; is located between Khorasan, Semnan, Tehran, Isfahan and Yazd Province. 'Low Plains' in classical Persian, from khwar (low), and dasht (plain, flatland), also known as Kavir-e Namak (lit. “ Very amazing place to see, you can walk through the water and sense both cold and hot water at the same time ” Located in southern Iran’s vast desert plateau, Kerman. The surface of its sand has been measured at temperatures as high as 70 °C, making it one of the world's driest and hottest places. Arg-e-Bam(Bam Citadel) , a mysterious ancient desert city, rises from the intimate earthquake like a Phoenix again after being almost completely levelled in the 2003 Bam Earthquake. It is the largest desert in Iran, spread from Alborz Mountains to the Central plateau and north-west of Lut Desert. “ The Morteza Ali Hot Fountain, with its hot and cold water, is located along the path of the village of Khrv, located 27 km from Tabas city, in the heart of the desert of Iran. The desert Pits of Iran Two well-known deserts of Iran are: 1. Dasht-e Kavir is covered by sand and pebbles in most parts. They are both some of aridest and maybe hottest areas of their kinds in the world. Iran is situated in a high-altitude plateau surrounded by connected ranges of mountains. It is the world's 25th-largest desert, and was included on UNESCO's World Heritage List on July 17, 2016. 'salty lowlands') and the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau. Bam’s origins can be traced back to the period of Achaemenid (6th to 4th centuries BC). The well-known deserts of Iran are at two major regions: 1) Dasht-e-Kavir, and 2) Kavir-e-Lut.