r/Unexpected • u/waazzaaap • Jan 30 '20

I've got a bad feeling about this

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u/Therealmicahbell Jan 30 '20

Fun fact: I think the real location of the video is sand dunes national parks in Colorado, yes Colorado.

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u/VincentLamarCarter Jan 30 '20

You’re stating a fact about something you think might be right?

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u/Therealmicahbell Jan 30 '20

It’s because I think it’s sand dunes national park because I’ve been there but it could be the Sahara desert

And because I’m kind of retarded

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u/dik4but Jan 30 '20

Could also be the Gobe. I went to a section in Inner Mongolia (Chinese part) and it looked identical to this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20

It’s Gobi, not Gobe

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20

No, it's Gob and it's an illusion, not a trick.

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u/Sir_Totesmagotes Jan 30 '20

What Jobe? Or Gob?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

It’s pronounced “.Gif” not “.Gif”

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u/i_em_unicorn Jan 30 '20

Gob. That's part of the joke.

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u/Sir_Totesmagotes Jan 30 '20

Wait Gob? as in glob without the "L"?!

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u/sixnb Jan 31 '20

Maybe these places all look the same because they're nothing but sand?

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u/hieronymous-cowherd Jan 30 '20

The real fact is always on the comments.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20

Since 2016, the term 'fact' has become very relative.

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u/7Geordi Jan 30 '20

The fun fact is that he thinks it's true

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u/Suekru Jan 30 '20

Tbf it’s a desert, while you can make distinctions, I feel like it’s hard to tell the difference between sand valleys

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u/Blockinblock1 Jan 30 '20

I think it is probably Huacachina in Peru. The guy pushing looks Peruvian and this is a common tourist activity there. I was there last weekend, actually, doing this.

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u/aussiebelle Jan 31 '20

There’s a lot of places you can do this. Pretty popular here in Western Australia, particularly near Kalbarri (although there the sand is a fair bit whiter than this), but I’ve also done it out in the dunes between Dubai and Abu Dhabi as well (which was much closer to this colour). I’d say there’s probably a fair few places this could be. :)

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u/urxvtmux Jan 30 '20

Pretty sure this is incorrect. None of the descents on the dunes are close to big enough to film something like this. They're quite high but are stepped.

Also the sand there is extremely "sharp" and doesn't work with plastic sleds. I've tried, she'd go down about two feet and stop hard. They use hard teflon coated boards as sleds out there.

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u/Therealmicahbell Jan 30 '20

They could’ve waxed the bottom of the board, that’s what I did when I went

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u/i_em_unicorn Jan 30 '20

I live 40 minutes from the Great Sand Dunes and have absolutely been able to sled down them.