The Kubuqi Desert means bowstring in Mongolian. The Kubuqi Desert lies to the south of the Huanghe River in the Ih Ju League like a long band extending about 400 kilometers from east to west.

Kubuqi desert is 50 kilometers wide in the west, 15-20 kilometers wide in the east and covers an area of 16756 sq. kilometers. Generally, the sand dunes are 10-15 meters high and the moving dunes make up 80% of the total area of the Kubuqi Desert. Some of the sand dunes on the edge of the desert move so fast that they meet Maowusu sand land in the west. This forms a natural phenomenon just as if people were shaking hands.

The Resonant Sand Gorge and Engbei Sand Tourist Spot which lie in the middle part of the Kubuqi Desert are both the ideal places where the tourists can go sight-seeing, spend holidays, make investigations, adventure, and learn about the local customs and manners.

The Resonant Sand Gorge is situated at the northern edge of Ordos Kubqi Desert in the Dalad Banner, 45 km from Baotou City. Resonant sand has long been a mystery of nature beyond man's knowledge. It is more a place of natural beauty than of historical importance.

Situated in the territory of Dalad Banner, Ordos, the Gorge is three kilometers from the 210 state highway and 44 kilometers from Baotou in the north and 55 kilometers from Dongsheng District of Ordos in the south. Backed by the Kubuqi Desert, the dunes assume a crescent shape with a height of 110 meters and gradient of 45 degrees. When people climb to its summit and slide down, they will hear a rumbling sound just like that of a car or a train.

The Gorge is a part of the vast Gobi desert that starts just to the south of Baotou and that spreads over Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang provinces. The locals have long considered the area a barren pointlessness, ungrazable and desolate.

The sand gorge is a not easily accessible area of numerous sand dunes. It receives its name from the echoing 'Shhhh' that the sand makes as you step on its surface, the sounds like automobile and aircraft engines, a phenomenon nobody can explain. Visitors here can try camel rides, can parasail, can slide the dunes or simply build sand castles.