Strange Places In The World


1. Pamukkale - Turkey

Unusual and beautiful terraced pools of Pamukkale has been estimated at more than two thousand years and are still largely unknown wonders of the world. For thousands of years of earthquakes, which are common in Turkey, which has created serious fractures, the hot spring rich in calcium carbonate on the surface. When the water evaporates and condenses the material layers in the form of travertine limestone, and gradually the wall while in the same way that constitutes stalactites in the cave. Apparently Pammakale means cotton castle, but the Greeks and the Romans built a city on calls Heirapolis - which means "holy city" or "holy city". Are also considered rare and important mission of healing powers of water milky.

2. Moeraki - New Zealand

These spherical boulders, strange and surprising beauty is found mainly in Koekohe Beach, part of the south coast of Otago in New Zealand. Known as "Rock Moeraki" originally formed in the ocean sediments and accumulate around the nucleus like a pearl forms around the sand particles. The weathering of rocks, often have rocks mudstone allows them to be already on the beach. Some large stones weigh several tons and can reach three meters wide.

Maori legend attributes the origin of the first arrival of the ancestors / Giants, who came in large canoes Araiteuru, which was flooded three major waves in close Matakaea.

3. Nine Hells Beppu - Japan

Beppu is located in the Japanese island of Kyushu, is the second largest producer of geothermal waters in the world. Located in the area, "Nine Hells" or gaps that everyone has their own unique character and because of the color of various minerals in the production. The "Hell" is a popular tourist attraction in Japan but little known outside of countries. Seven of the geothermal resources of others in this area, known as Hell Kannawa ocean or sea (Umi Jigoku), skinhead Hell (Jigoku Oniishibozu) Hell Kitchen Pot (Kamado Jigoku) Hell Mountain (Yama Jigoku) , Devil's Mountain, Monster and Hell (Jigoku Oniyama), Golden Dragon Hell (Jigoku Kinryu) and White Pond Hell (Jigoku Shiraike). Unfortunately, like so many other wonders of nature around him is amazing become a commercial and "sticky".

4. Las Cañadas - Tenerife

The summit of Mount Teide volcano on the largest island in the world to Las Cañadas caldera. The crater, which is a huge period of ten miles wide, is a picture of what hell might look like after it cools down a bit. The vertical walls are formed when the crater collapsed around just dry and strange. And with the arrogance that can not be regarded as typical of how humanity has built observatories, and so the earth any man who is nothing more than plugging the dream is still active and very large volcano. When I visited a few years ago we were on the veranda when the earth shook under my feet, and suddenly broke several windows. Complained sleepwalking sleeping giant. Land mass created by the volcano in the Canary Islands in Tenerife.

5. Great blue hole, Belize

It is on land, sea, along the Bahamas, Belize domestic deep circular cavities called blue holes, which are often the gateway to a network of caves, about 14 km long. Divers have reported a number of aquatic creatures, some of them new to science. In addition, the rooms were filled with stalactites and stalagmites form in caves dry. For researchers, it was shown that, at some point, nearly 65 000 years, when the world was under the influence of the last of the great level of sea ice in the Bahamas 150 meters below qu'aujourd 'hui. Over time, the limestone islands have been destroyed by water and has developed an extensive network of caves. If sea levels rose by about 10,000 years, some of them fell, and black holes formed

6. The Hell's Door - Turkmenistan

Located in the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan with Darwaza (Derweze) near the place where in 1971 a group of Soviet scientists, who would have crashed into a chamber filled with gas. The roof of the cave collapsed leaving a crater in the dirt about 25 feet in diameter from 60 to 70 meters. It soon became clear that natural gas is growing in the crater of the root causes and history says that the decision was made for the inclusion of emissions, rather than risk a build focused on poison gas or local level. According to various sources operating continuously since, and, of course, was called "gates of hell" by local residents. Nevertheless, said another source who spoke with guides in the region, it is quite natural.

7. Sanqingshan - CHINA

Sanqingshan is relatively small national park near the city of Shangrao in Jiangsu Province in China. What he lacks in size it's natural beauty Court. This is the seventh World Heritage officials in China and is known for its scenic attraction ideal for tourists. The key to this wonderful mystical place is a combination of granite rocks geology in the extraordinary form of foreign and columns, coupled with seasonal climate changes, which are often the cause of fog, mist and beautiful sunsets. Those who have visited this place to describe the overwhelming sense of peace and quiet. This effect increases the wealth of natural waterfalls, pools and fountains. If you want, in fact, you can see the ground, air and fire, with the passage of time.

8. EYE OF AFRICA - Mauritania

From this mystical place in the Sahara in Mauritania, depression, really looks like the human eye. The left image is a "student", but the visit was to improve Google Earth to reveal some of the rocks that make up the rest of the eye. This natural phenomenon is actually a structure that is due to the amount of Rich symmetrical dome-shaped, geology base is now seen by thousands of years of erosion. Note that this explanation is not entirely accepted by the scientific community. There are still scientists who believe that the vision of a meteorite, but others still believe that education because of these underground nuclear explosions. Indeed, it is assumed that the explosion must be in the range of GT. Currently, no country has a weapon that is not even close to this realization, destructive.


9. SOCOTRA Island - Yemen

This charming island of Socotra and little known is also known on the coast of Yemen in the Middle East. Isolated from the rest of the world, plants have been wonderful in many shapes and forms that are unknown in other countries. One of the most famous of them is the tree of SAP's blood is used to produce crystals that can be used as a dye or an aphrodisiac. Plant shown on the right unusual desert Rose (Adenium obesium), but sometimes more commonly known as elephant foot tree. The island is gradually becoming known throughout the world and has great potential for ecotourism, provided visitors do more harm than good. Other species of the tree of cucumber, and the shape of the island of Socotra. Suqatra entered on the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2008.

10. Racetrack Playa - USA

Located in one of the aircraft before the strange and unexplained in the world sailing stones Racetrack Playa - Death Valley - California - USA. Once a year, "The Beach", or in a flat desert you experience intermittent rain in winter and becomes slippery as the desert floor becomes a swamp hex. At that time, stones and rocks, leaving visible signs of the move. Although scientists believe that the winds are responsible for some of the stones suddenly change direction and move in an almost perfect right angle to his old address. All evidence indicates that this is not a scam, and said that the movement of these species has never been captured on film or video. In this age of technology, we wonder why so far taken are not used?