The magnificent mountains and shining waves of the sea always attract tourists, but there are even more impressive natural phenomena. Here are seven directions that amaze with their appearance. From Australia's pink lake to bloody waterfalls in Antarctica, these quirks of nature will surely impress you!
Frozen methane bubbles in Canada
The alien landscape conquers - it seems that flying saucers have frozen under the water or ancient jellyfish have frozen. In fact, the circles under the ice are bubbles of frozen methane, accumulations of gas trapped under a crust of frozen water. In lakes in northern latitudes, for example, in the province of Alberta in Canada, such a sight often occurs. Its reason is that fallen leaves, remains of animals and plants are decomposed in water under the influence of bacteria that produce methane. Gas accumulates and collects in bubbles, which create thousands of circles under the ice. The spectacle is not only beautiful, but also dangerous - when the ice melts in spring, you cannot even light a match nearby so as not to cause a chain reaction that would lead to an explosion. In the Arctic Ocean, there are also such bubbles - for example, one of them reached a diameter of nine hundred meters!
Blood Falls in Antarctica
Everything is clear from the name - Blood Falls looks like a slowly pouring stream of scarlet blood, staining the snow-white Taylor Glacier and Lake Bonnie, located nearby. This is an amazing and frightening sight. Of course, the scarlet liquid is not blood at all. Scientists used to think it was algae-colored water. In fact, the incredibly salty lake under the glacier provides the hue. The lake was formed about two million years ago, when a glacier cut off the salt water from light, oxygen and heat. When water flows to the surface, it reacts to contact with oxygen, taking on a rusty hue. A true scientific miracle can only be seen from a helicopter or a cruise ship. There is nothing like this on the planet.
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Moving stones in the United States of America
When visitors to Death Valley National Park discovered heavy stones that moved across the dry lake, leaving a characteristic trail, scientists were shocked. How can huge cobblestones, some weighing three hundred kilograms, move several hundred meters in the sand? Interestingly, some of the tracks are curved and some are straight, with sharp turns to the left or right. Who or what is moving the stones? At the time of the first collision with the phenomenon, many theories arose, both taking into account magnetic fields, and with assumptions about the intervention of alien civilizations. It was only in 2006 that Ralph Lorenz managed to explain the essence of this phenomenon, using a small pebble frozen on a thin layer of water. In winter, the lake is filled with water and the stones are frozen in ice. The ice is slippery and even a light wind can move stones along the bottom of the lake. Their sharp edges leave marks. During the warmer months, the water and ice disappear, and the mysterious footprints behind the stones remain.
Lake Kawa Ijen in Indonesia
At the Kawa Ijen volcano in Indonesia, there is a turquoise lake surrounded by colorful rocks and columns of white steam. What is the secret of color? In sulfur! The incandescent magma located under the volcano fills the lake with sulfur, which, in combination with the metals dissolved in the water, gives a rich blue color. The same sulfur breaks out to the surface and along the shores of the lake, and when the gas condenses, it settles on the ground and turns the stones yellow. You can climb to the amazing lake during a three-hour mountain hike.
A hidden beach in Mexico
Everyone's dream is a secret beach hidden from human eyes. The Hidden Beach in Mexico is just that. It arose as a result of bomb tests at the beginning of the twentieth century - an explosion created a hole in the surface of one of the islands. The tides filled the pit with sand and water, creating a secluded Eden reachable by water.
Lake Hillier in Australia
Fly over Western Australia for a rich pink lake in green forest. Lake Hillier has a vibrant shade of water - and no one really knows why. Maybe it's the pigment-producing algae, or maybe it's the shrimp. The view attracts many tourists. The water is not hazardous to health, so you can also swim in the pink waves.
Fairy Circles in Namibia
The sandy land of the African desert is covered with millions of circles from two to fifteen meters in diameter, arranged in a pattern resembling a honeycomb. This drawing was called Fairy circles. Nobody knows the exact reasons for the appearance of such a spectacle, but there are enough assumptions - maybe it's the radioactive soil, or maybe the toxins contained in plants. Someone thinks that the reason is termites.
Marina Ilyushenko