Mount Roraima
Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateaus in South America.
It was first described in Europe by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596.
The mountain serves as the triple border point of Venezuela (85% of its territory), Guyana (10%) and Brazil (5%).
The plateau on top of the mountain is 31 km2 and has some unique plants and animals. It is a national park and protected, and the access is highly restricted because of the vulnerability.
Most of the nutrients flush away over the edges in the several waterfalls, falling some 400 meters, making them some of the highest waterfalls in the world.
It rains every day.
The mountain is holy to the people of the area, and there are myths explaining it as the stump of a giant tree once holding all the fruits and edible vegetables in the world.
There is only one route to the top that doesn't require mountain-climbing skills and equipment.
Fly Geiser
It used to be an ordinary well. Then it started shooting hot water. Since that the waters have brought up minerals and that has been collecting during the years. This pile is about 1.5 meters high. The colors are due to algae.
Fly Geiser is not a tourist attraction but on private property.
Bermuda triangle
There's a lot of myths about this place. Most of it is just that, myths.
It is a very large area with no islands and not much traffic, so there are no eyewitnesses, nor can the disappearances be proven, as the Gulf stream takes any possible debris quickly away.
They say that "At least 1000 lives are lost within the last 100 years. On average, 4 aircraft and 20 yachts go missing every year." (I have my suspicions about this data, though. Also, how many do not go missing? I can imagine there's quite a lot of small planes and yachts in that area that are not influenced in any way by this mysterious force.)
Most of the disappearances can be explained with natural reasons like equipment dysfunction and storm. but the people who want to believe explain these as part of the mystery. "It might be natural, but it ain't normal and it happens there more often than not..."
Some of the disappearances haven't happened even close this place, but as they are disappearances, people are saying that it is POSSIBLE they DID happen here.
These "disappearances" have been explained with aliens or Atlantis and other such things.
US government has their Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center in this area.
People claim that there is "electronic mist" and "time warp tunnels" in the area.
The first person to report about Bermuda Triangle was Christopher Columbus. He wrote in his journals that inside the triangle, the ship's compass stopped working and he also saw a fireball in the sky.
Blood Falls
This is in the Antarctis, South from Australia. It is, of course, iron oxide - rust - that colors the water, but the interesting part of this is that the water is highly salty and there are micro-organisms living in it. It also look pretty impressive.
Travertine Pools Of Pamukkale
Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing water.
People have been pretty horrible using the site and the water, so people are not allowed to the terraces and bathing is only allowed in some selected small pools. It's worth visiting, though.
Richat Structure
This is the "Eye of Sahara", in West Sahara in Mauretania. The thing with this is that we don't know how it was formed. Was is a meteorite? A volcano? Atlantis? Aliens? As many theories and explanations as people, nothing certain.
Moeraki Boulders
The "giant's marbles" are round stones about the size of a person. They say it's calcified mud - basically natural cement - and have been eroded from the surrounding stone, which was softer. As the shell is harder than the heart, these boulders break sometimes, and people like to sit inside them or so. As far as I know there are no restrictions on visiting this beach in New Zealand, just be mindful of your behavior, manners and the environment, AS YOU ALWAYS SHOULD.
Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateaus in South America.
It was first described in Europe by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596.
The mountain serves as the triple border point of Venezuela (85% of its territory), Guyana (10%) and Brazil (5%).
The plateau on top of the mountain is 31 km2 and has some unique plants and animals. It is a national park and protected, and the access is highly restricted because of the vulnerability.
Most of the nutrients flush away over the edges in the several waterfalls, falling some 400 meters, making them some of the highest waterfalls in the world.
It rains every day.
The mountain is holy to the people of the area, and there are myths explaining it as the stump of a giant tree once holding all the fruits and edible vegetables in the world.
There is only one route to the top that doesn't require mountain-climbing skills and equipment.
Fly Geiser
It used to be an ordinary well. Then it started shooting hot water. Since that the waters have brought up minerals and that has been collecting during the years. This pile is about 1.5 meters high. The colors are due to algae.
Fly Geiser is not a tourist attraction but on private property.
Bermuda triangle
There's a lot of myths about this place. Most of it is just that, myths.
It is a very large area with no islands and not much traffic, so there are no eyewitnesses, nor can the disappearances be proven, as the Gulf stream takes any possible debris quickly away.
They say that "At least 1000 lives are lost within the last 100 years. On average, 4 aircraft and 20 yachts go missing every year." (I have my suspicions about this data, though. Also, how many do not go missing? I can imagine there's quite a lot of small planes and yachts in that area that are not influenced in any way by this mysterious force.)
Most of the disappearances can be explained with natural reasons like equipment dysfunction and storm. but the people who want to believe explain these as part of the mystery. "It might be natural, but it ain't normal and it happens there more often than not..."
Some of the disappearances haven't happened even close this place, but as they are disappearances, people are saying that it is POSSIBLE they DID happen here.
These "disappearances" have been explained with aliens or Atlantis and other such things.
US government has their Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center in this area.
People claim that there is "electronic mist" and "time warp tunnels" in the area.
The first person to report about Bermuda Triangle was Christopher Columbus. He wrote in his journals that inside the triangle, the ship's compass stopped working and he also saw a fireball in the sky.
Blood Falls
Travertine Pools Of Pamukkale
People have been pretty horrible using the site and the water, so people are not allowed to the terraces and bathing is only allowed in some selected small pools. It's worth visiting, though.
Richat Structure
This is the "Eye of Sahara", in West Sahara in Mauretania. The thing with this is that we don't know how it was formed. Was is a meteorite? A volcano? Atlantis? Aliens? As many theories and explanations as people, nothing certain.
Moeraki Boulders
