Traveling Guide

Traveling Guide! :D

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Danakil Desert

Snake Island

Lake Natron

Skeleton Coast

Death Road

Gates Of Hell

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SNAKE ISLAND

Snake Island

• Located in Brazil, 90 miles from Sao Paulo. Also known as Ilha da Queimada Grande

• It's home to the world’s highest concentrated population of snake, has roughly five snakes per square meter

• Snakes there are so poisonous that they can melt human flesh

• The Brazilian government has rigorously forbidden trips there mostly because due to the black market demand for lancehead venom

• The only place where the golden lancehead viper and the Bothrops can be found

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Lake Natron

Lake Natron

• Located in Tanzania. It is one of the most caustic ecosystems on the planet, turning animals into stones.

• Hovering birds mistake Lake Natron’s highly reflective and chemically dense waters for a glass door, deceiving them into thinking they’re flying over nothing. After landing on the lake, their bodies deteriorate within minutes.

• Lake Natron is regarded as one of the world’s most dangerous locations.

• More than 2.5 million endangered Lesser Flamingos breed here. Seventy-five percent of the world’s population are born on its shores.

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Danakil Desert

Danakil Desert

• Located in Ethiopi, the world’s hottest spot, is also one of the driest and lowest areas on the planet, resembling an alien landscape.

• Volcanoes erupting lava, various hues of hydrothermal landscapes, and vast salt pans

• It is covered in more than one million tonnes of salt

• Exploring this tense region necessitates hours of traveling on uneven, muddy dirt roads that begin in Mekele

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Skeleton Coast

Skeleton Coast

• Located in Namibia, Skeleton Coast is extended over the south of Angola to the north of Namibia.

• Because of its brutal climate, the skeleton coast is considered one of “the worst places on earth"

• Gang violence and robbery make it unsafe for tourists to visit

• Aside from the harsh climate, the area is filled with animal bones (whales, elephants, turtles, seals, and so on)

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Death Road

Death Road

• Located in Bolivia. The road connects the administrative capital of La Paz with the lower lying Yungas and the Amazonian rain forest.

• It has been nicknamed the death road due to the fact that it has killed numerous people

• It's used by merchants since it connects the rain forest to the capital city

• Estimations records that 250 people have died there every year since its construction in 1930 by Paraguayan prisoners during the Chaco War.

• Consists of narrow single track with no guard rails, excess fog, rains that blinds the drivers, and steep slopes that drop as far as 2000 feet deep.

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Gates Of Hell

Gates Of Hell

• It is located in the middle of the Karakum Desert, about 260 kilometers north of Turkmenistan’s capital, near the village of Derweze

• Geologists set it on fire to prevent methane gas from spreading, and it has been burning since 1971

• The Turkmenistan Darvaza Gas Crater is known as the “Gates of Hell.”

• The gas reserve that has been discovered here is one of the World’s most extensive natural gasses. Locals gave the name “Door to hell” to the area, referring to the explosion, boiling mud, and orange flames in the large crater

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