The Turkmenistan Darvaza Gas Crater (Gates of He ll).
The Turkmenistan Darvaza Gas Crater is a natural gas field within an underground cave. It has been burning since 1971, when geologists set it on fire to prevent methane gas from spreading.
It’s near the town of Derweze, Ashgabat, in the center of the Karakum Desert, some 260 kilometers north of Turkmenistan’s capital.
Alpine Refuge, Located at 2760 meters in Monte Cristallo, Italy.
Monte Cristallo is a long, indented ridge in the Italian Dolomites with four peaks higher than 3,000 meters. The mountain range is now part of the “Natural Park of the Ampezzo Dolomites,” but it was the site of fierce fighting between Italy and Austria-Hungary during WWI.
The opposing armies deployed massive weaponry, dug tunnels beneath one other’s defences and blasted the tops off mountains, causing avalanches that killed hundreds. Today, you may hike through the rock galleries they dug. It’s both incredible and scary.
Wacky living! These are the wildest Airbnbs from across the world that you can rent - including floating tents in the UK, a wild modernist cube in Norway and serpent-inspired home in Mexico City Airbnb compiled a list of three hundred of its most unconventional listings from around the world A house on the outskirts of Joshua Tree took twenty years to build and will cost guests $5,000 a night Those looking for a more basic experience can stay in spherical tree tents in England for less than $200
@HAYSIE People were building underground structures 1000's of years ago.
The Derinkuyu underground city is an ancient multi-level underground city in the Derinkuyu district in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, extending to a depth of approximately 85 metres (280 ft). It is large enough to have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores. It is the largest excavated underground city in Turkey and is one of several underground complexes found throughout Cappadocia.
The underground city at Derinkuyu could be closed from the inside with large rolling stone doors. Each floor could be closed off separately.
The city could accommodate up to 20,000 people and had amenities such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. Unique to the Derinkuyu complex and located on the second floor is a spacious room with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. It has been reported that this room was used as a religious school and the rooms to the left were studies.
Starting between the third and fourth levels are a series of vertical staircases, which lead to a cruciform church on the fifth level.
The large 55-metre (180 ft) ventilation shaft appears to have been used as a well. The shaft provided water to both the villagers above and if the outside world was not accessible, to those in hiding.
@HAYSIE People were building underground structures 1000's of years ago.
The Derinkuyu underground city is an ancient multi-level underground city in the Derinkuyu district in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, extending to a depth of approximately 85 metres (280 ft). It is large enough to have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores. It is the largest excavated underground city in Turkey and is one of several underground complexes found throughout Cappadocia.
The underground city at Derinkuyu could be closed from the inside with large rolling stone doors. Each floor could be closed off separately.
The city could accommodate up to 20,000 people and had amenities such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. Unique to the Derinkuyu complex and located on the second floor is a spacious room with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. It has been reported that this room was used as a religious school and the rooms to the left were studies.
Starting between the third and fourth levels are a series of vertical staircases, which lead to a cruciform church on the fifth level.
The large 55-metre (180 ft) ventilation shaft appears to have been used as a well. The shaft provided water to both the villagers above and if the outside world was not accessible, to those in hiding.
Beauty... and the beast: Sussex photographer captures the drama and picturesque delights of his home county ('some of my images are mistaken for Tuscany!') Photographer Lloyd Lane says that Sussex offers some of the UK's most beautiful and interesting landscapes Some of the beauty spots that appear in his work include East Sussex's Friston Forest and Newhaven harbour MORE: Scottish photographer's incredible images of her home country show just why its landscape has it all ‘For me, the Sussex landscape offers some of the most beautiful and interesting landscapes in the UK, yet somehow it remains relatively unknown.’
So says Brighton-based photographer Lloyd Lane, whose work is a masterful celebration of the multi-faceted scenery of his home county. At times, Lane, 47, focuses on the ferocity of the Sussex coast, capturing waves crashing and breaking under stormy skies, but on other occasions, he dwells on Sussex’s softer side, looking at its misty valleys and forests.
He observes: ‘People are sometimes surprised that some of my photographs of mist surrounding the undulating hills of the South Downs are from this country and have instead mistaken them for Tuscany! Mostly, I think people are reminded of how beautiful the UK actually is.’
After a spell spent living in London, Lane moved back to his native Sussex seven years ago. 'I‘m still finding new things to photograph,' he reveals.
The photographer - who works as a software developer when he's not shooting landscapes - says that Sussex ‘is a part of the world that never stops giving’ and that witnessing its transformation through the changing seasons is ‘truly breathtaking’.
Below are 15 pictures by Lane that paint Sussex in a truly spectacular light…
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The Turkmenistan Darvaza Gas Crater is a natural gas field within an underground cave. It has been burning since 1971, when geologists set it on fire to prevent methane gas from spreading.
It’s near the town of Derweze, Ashgabat, in the center of the Karakum Desert, some 260 kilometers north of Turkmenistan’s capital.
@lucy4
These photos are stunning.
Monte Cristallo is a long, indented ridge in the Italian Dolomites with four peaks higher than 3,000 meters. The mountain range is now part of the “Natural Park of the Ampezzo Dolomites,” but it was the site of fierce fighting between Italy and Austria-Hungary during WWI.
The opposing armies deployed massive weaponry, dug tunnels beneath one other’s defences and blasted the tops off mountains, causing avalanches that killed hundreds. Today, you may hike through the rock galleries they dug. It’s both incredible and scary.
Airbnb compiled a list of three hundred of its most unconventional listings from around the world
A house on the outskirts of Joshua Tree took twenty years to build and will cost guests $5,000 a night
Those looking for a more basic experience can stay in spherical tree tents in England for less than $200
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11733443/These-wildest-Airbnbs-world-rent.html
The Derinkuyu underground city is an ancient multi-level underground city in the Derinkuyu district in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, extending to a depth of approximately 85 metres (280 ft). It is large enough to have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores. It is the largest excavated underground city in Turkey and is one of several underground complexes found throughout Cappadocia.
The underground city at Derinkuyu could be closed from the inside with large rolling stone doors. Each floor could be closed off separately.
The city could accommodate up to 20,000 people and had amenities such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. Unique to the Derinkuyu complex and located on the second floor is a spacious room with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. It has been reported that this room was used as a religious school and the rooms to the left were studies.
Starting between the third and fourth levels are a series of vertical staircases, which lead to a cruciform church on the fifth level.
The large 55-metre (180 ft) ventilation shaft appears to have been used as a well. The shaft provided water to both the villagers above and if the outside world was not accessible, to those in hiding.
Photographer Lloyd Lane says that Sussex offers some of the UK's most beautiful and interesting landscapes
Some of the beauty spots that appear in his work include East Sussex's Friston Forest and Newhaven harbour
MORE: Scottish photographer's incredible images of her home country show just why its landscape has it all
‘For me, the Sussex landscape offers some of the most beautiful and interesting landscapes in the UK, yet somehow it remains relatively unknown.’
So says Brighton-based photographer Lloyd Lane, whose work is a masterful celebration of the multi-faceted scenery of his home county. At times, Lane, 47, focuses on the ferocity of the Sussex coast, capturing waves crashing and breaking under stormy skies, but on other occasions, he dwells on Sussex’s softer side, looking at its misty valleys and forests.
He observes: ‘People are sometimes surprised that some of my photographs of mist surrounding the undulating hills of the South Downs are from this country and have instead mistaken them for Tuscany! Mostly, I think people are reminded of how beautiful the UK actually is.’
After a spell spent living in London, Lane moved back to his native Sussex seven years ago. 'I‘m still finding new things to photograph,' he reveals.
The photographer - who works as a software developer when he's not shooting landscapes - says that Sussex ‘is a part of the world that never stops giving’ and that witnessing its transformation through the changing seasons is ‘truly breathtaking’.
Below are 15 pictures by Lane that paint Sussex in a truly spectacular light…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-11721839/Some-images-mistaken-Tuscany-Photographer-captures-beauty-Sussex.html