Friday, March 29, 2013
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni
When a prehistoric lake dried up about 30,000 years ago, leaving a vast expanse of white hexagonal tiles, endless. Welcome to the world's largest salt marsh, stretching over 4,000 square miles of the 25 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
The website provides local miners more than 25,000 tons of salt each year, tens of thousands of flamingos support a thriving community, and attract many tourists can check into the Hotel Palacio de Sal, 16-room hotel, entirely of salt blocks.
Asbyrgi Canyon, Iceland
Asbyrgi Canyon
According to legend, when the in northern Iceland Asbyrgi Canyon to create a the Nordic god horse's hoof touched the earth, through the 300-foot-high cliff slice and leveling the area only two miles long, more than half a mile wide.
More likely scientific explanation, carved the canyon glacier flood in two periods between 30 million years ago. Green carpet spread by standing on top of the cliff, before the horseshoe-shaped canyon, it's fun, otherwise imagine.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Lake Retba, Senegal
Lake Retba
It is Like someone poured a huge bottle of bismuth subsalicylate into the lake Retba - This is how deep pink these water are. Actually the color of the pigment produced by a special kind of algae called Dunaliella salina.
The salt content is very high, reaching 40% at some point, grow algae (and swimmer effortlessly floating on the surface of the 10-foot-deep lake). Piles of blinding white salt line of coast, locals every day to work a few hours of harvesting salt from bright pink water.
Marble Caves, Chile
Marble Caves
Six thousand years of wave erosion to create the pattern of ups and downs, so the marble effect of these caves, improve the Carrera lake blue and green water, near the border of Chile and Argentina reflection.
The region is a threat to plans to build a dam near now, visitors can kayak water is calm days, the entire cave.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Old House Woods, Virginia
Old House Woods
An area of 50 acres of forest near the Chesapeake Bay, is the specter of a 18th century British soldiers and pirates, once near the historic port city of Matthews (pictured), who buried the treasure.The box may have to leave the refuge in the soft dirt.
In the center of the woods, away from the New Haven Beach Road, an isolated and dilapidated colonial homes razed to the ground. All traces here, perhaps the most interesting fisherman walking silently and creeks of the White River in the 19th century, the ship continued on the beach and disappeared in the woods.
Frith Wood, England
Frith Wood
In the early 19th century, Greenlaw floor, the Friis wood within walking distance, converted into the camp of the French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars.
It is said that a woman in love with a prisoner, and then beaten to death by her father and brother. Shortly thereafter, she was dead, and her hand. Her soul to return to the scene of the murder of her lover, she said, choking back tears, others say she frantically running through the woods.
Robinson Woods, Illinois
Robinson Woods
Alexander Robinson was born Kiki needle the Pier and chief Pottawatomies, Ottawa and Chippewa countries, together with his family to be buried in the woods.
Baozhu, is considered the soul of the Robinson family, occur at night, daytime, deer group for no apparent reason, and sometimes a professional audience. Near the grave, people can smell the lilacs in the winter.
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