Breath taking natural formation for your travel bucket list
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Some of the most amazing creations on this planet have been made by nature. The size, shape, and colors of these formations are just amazing. These 10 creations of nature are truly breath taking.
Giants Causeway (Northern Ireland, UK)
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The Giant’s Causeway is a magnificent, mysterious geological formation on the North East coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is steeped in myths and legend, with locals claiming to to be the stomping ground of giant Finn McCool, who lived in there nearly two thousand years ago.
Cueva de los Cristales (Chihuahua, Mexico)
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Originally called The Cave of Swords, this unique cave was accidentally discovered whilst mining in 1910. Believed to be about half a million years old, the cave features huge selenite crystals weighing as much as 55 tons, some of the largest natural crystals ever discovered. The cave has unique climatic conditions, as the temperature in it is about +58C, while the humidity rarely drops below 90%.
The Door to Hell (Derweze, Turkmenistan)
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In order to avoid a potential “environmental disaster”, in 1971, Soviet scientists had the bright idea to light a massive natural gas fire in the middle of the Turkmeni desert. Nearly fifty years later, it’s still burning! The Door to Hell is located along the ancient Silk Road in the Karakum Desert.
Fairy Chimneys / Peri Bacalari (Cappadocia, Turkey)
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Peri Bacasi are amazing rock formations with conical peaks resembling chimneys, which gave such a fairy-tale title to these unusual sights. Since ancient times, locals believed that fairies lived inside pipes and, thus, where afraid to approach them.
Devils Tower (Wyoming, USA)
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Although termed a monument, the Devils Tower National Monument, is actually flat-topped volcanic formation. You can even climb it!
Moeraki Boulders (Koekohe Beach, New Zealand)
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The Moeraki Boulders are mysteriously spherical stones scattered across Koekohe Beach. Each boulder weighs several tonnes and is up to two metres high. According to Maori legend, the boulders are gourds washed ashore from the great voyaging canoe Araiteuru when it was wrecked upon landfall in New Zealand hundreds of years ago. Scientists explain the boulders as calcite concretions formed about 65 million years ago.
Eisriesenwelt (Werfen, Austria)
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Eisriesenwelt is the largest ice cave in the world. Also known as World of the Ice Giants, it is an underground wonderland decorated, it seems, by ice fairies, with frozen statues carved not by humans, but by the elements and time. Its halls are decorated with all kinds of mesmerizing ice formations, gigantic columns and towers of ice, ice waterfalls and glaciers. Invisible from the road and virtually unknown to the thousands of Americans strolling the streets of nearby Salzburg.
Richat Structure (Ouadane, Mauritania)
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Extraordinary describes Richat – a thirty mile wide geologic anomaly surrounded by thousands of featureless Saharan square miles. Sometimes called the Eye of Africa, or Eye of the Saharae, this natural curiosity forms a distinct and unmistakable bull’s-eye that once served as a geographical landmark for early astronauts as they passed over the Sahara.
The Wave (Utah/Arizona, USA)
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The Wave is the common point on the map where world’s geologists, psychedelics, couples taking engagement photos and Victor Vasarely groupies get together and try to keep their mouths closed. It’s like a hurricane, freeze-framed. If you forget your camera, no one will believe you.
Shi Lin Stone Forest (Yunnan Province, China)
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There is an ancient forest in southern China where thousands of limestone rock formations press upward from the earth. Trees dot the stone landscape, adding bursts of greenery to an otherwise grey scene.