Traveling: A Visit @ Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve Palm Springs California

 

(Drivebycuriosity) - My wife and I are staying in Palm Springs, a Californian desert town 107 mi (172 km) south-east of Los Angeles. The town, which has a about 40,000 residents and many more visitors, is located in the Coachella Valley. This weekend we drove to the Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve east of the town. The oasis in the midst of the Coachella desert  is irrigated by water seeping out of the San Andreas Fault.

The plants are very crowded there, all attracted by the rare water. I have never seen such strange palms.

The center of the oasis has a swamp which is the basis for a lush vegetation, a kind of rain forest in the desert

There is not much place left between the plants.

Above some detail shots.

To be continued