 Continued from last week
Most bizarre landscapes
 White Desert, Egypt
Towering chalk rock formations stand like gigantic mushrooms in the
White Desert, sculpted by the sandstorms that have whipped through the
area for millennia. Located in the Farafra Oasis of Western Egypt, this
bizarre landscape is a popular area for camping and tourism.
 Blood Pond Hot Spring, Japan
Literally called "hell" in Japanese, the Blood Pond Hot Spring in
Beppu, Japan certainly doesn't look too inviting. High iron content
turns the waters a deep, unsettling red, and the effect is magnified by
the steam that rolls off the surface.
 Stone Forest, China
"If you have visited the Yunnan province of China without seeing the
Stone Forest, you've wasted your time". That old local saying hints at
the grandeur of this attraction, a 400-square-kilometer stone wonderland
where tall rock formations tower overhead like trees. The Stone Forest
was formed over millennia as the sea, which once covered the area,
gradually retreated, slowly eroding the bedrock.
 Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves, Austria
The entrance to the Eisriesenwelt ice caves in Werfen, Austria,
doesn't look like much - just a hole in the mountainside. But step
inside, and it's as if you've fallen into another world. The caverns
located near the entrance are lined with ice that gets up to 65 feet
thick and are covered in stalactites, stalagmites, domes, frozen
waterfalls and other ice formations. |
