Lamakan Desert

The Lamakan Desert is a desert in eastern Angara that Isaac and co. travel through on their way from Lama Temple (which the desert has given it's name to) and Altin, to Kalay. The Lamakan Desert is renowned for being extremely hot and dry, in the midst of a mostly temperate climate, and resides in the mostly oriental-inspired eastern section of Angara. It is one of the main geographic features of that continent. On the southern end of the Lamakan Desert, there is a small cave which leads into the overworld (in game terms), and the south western region of Angara. The Silk Road goes through the Lamakan Desert.

In Golden Sun, the desert has been overtaken by an evil presence which uses the extreme heat to harm the player as they attempt to traverse the desert. This is represented by a temperature bar on the right hand side of the screen that slowly fills up as the player walks on the sand areas of the desert (this includes the sand waterfalls in the puzzles), when it reaches full, all the characters in the players' party take a large amount of damage to their HP. To make matters worse, the evil of the desert conceals the oases (which are vital to reducing the temperature bar before the party is damaged) with heat mirages. The player must use the Psynergy Reveal to reveal the hidden oases, located in circles of stones, or they will not affect him, even if he is at the location of one. As if that did not make the desert difficult enough to traverse, on occasion, the circles of stones will not contain an oasis, but a difficult monster (though not of boss level) which will force the player to battle it.

Enemies
Unlike most enemies, Ant Lions aren't fought in random encounters. Instead they hide in stone circles identical to the ones containing oases. The good news is, like the oases, they cannot be seen (or battled) unless the Reveal Psynergy is used. The bad news is that the Ant Lions have a pitfall trap similar to real life antlions, though obviously on a much larger scale; if a player strays too close (with Reveal active) they will be caught in the pitfall and be forced into battle. It is recommended that players who do not wish to battle Ant Lions remain outside of the stone circles (and therefore outside of the Ant Lion's trap) when casting Reveal.