Most Unreal Landscapes On Earth
By chili, May 28th 2009 in Travel Destinations Comments (97)
Unreal landscapes on our very much real Earth are like gates to different worlds. These places blow our minds and cross the limits of our imagination.
Here is a collection of ten most alien-looking landscapes on Earth:
Iceland
Steam, bubbles, rocks and ice combine into breathtaking, though, alien-looking landscape. This is Iceland. The island with no trees, few people and the biggest glacier in Europe called Vatnajökull. Yes! This is Europe, not the moon.
Uzbekistan
The hole filled with burning gas called by locals “the door to hell” is in Uzbekistan but could as well be a quiet spot somewhere on Venus.
Not to be groundless...Venus
Mauritania
The Eye of the Sahara called Richat Structure has a diameter of almost 50 kilometers (30 miles). Placed in Mauritania, it is so huge it can be visible from the space. A meteorite impact? An effect of erosion? A symmetrical uplift? Or maybe three in one? Geologists do not really know how the structure was created.
The Eye
Socotra Island
A long geological isolation and dry, hot and harsh climate made Socotra Island looks like a grotesque computer animation. Hyperbolic plants, funky-looking trees and pink flowers can be great inspiration for graphic designers. The island is situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen and it was isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years.
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Spain
An ancient, acidic river in Spain - Rio Tinto – is a favourite environment for acid- and metal-loving extremophiles. It does not look like human-friendly and, in fact, it is not, but surely it could quench the Terminator's thirst.
Arizona
The Antelope Canyon, located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona looks more like an oil painting than a rock formation. Not without reasons it is the most visited canyon in the southwest America.
Yellowstone National Park
The terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, in the USA, are created by heat, water, limestone, and rock fracture. The formation is like a living sculpture that is constantly changing by flowing water and erosion. Well...the trees are very much alive as well.
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Planet Earth
The icy forms of glaciers are located around the world. That’s how I imagine Pluto and Neptune, the coldest planets in the solar system.
Denmark
The Mars’ landscapes of Skagen in Denmark do not really fit into the image of the richest and most developed country in the world. The moving dunes and deserted beaches run into the end of Europe where the Baltic Sea clashes with the North Sea.
Somewhere in Skagen
Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, is located in southwest Bolivia. The salt desert surrounded by cactuses, volcanoes and geysers looks as if it was a remote planet, far from our solar system.
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Just beautiful
Inspirational shots! That lava ditch in Kazakhstan just blew my mind!
Meant to say Uzbekistan
. Lemme say the shots are unbelievable quality. What camera and settings were you using? Mind sharing that? Did you put these up on flickr?
do you think words can tell . hmmmm really great and inspirational
I wish it was me who took the pictures in Uzbekistan but I have to give credits to englishrussia (see link below the photo), where I found these pics.
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Found you viaTwitter. WOW! fantastic photos! Love 'em!
I was really suprised by the inclusion of Denmark and Spain. Sometimes it's the places you think you know that suprise you the most. Wonderful photos btw.
There are some weird features in Turkey as well. White volcanic terrace pools and things looking like giant termite nests.
Its beuatiful!!!! The landscape created by GOD...
Thanks for posting....
How about the Badlands? Anyone who has been there can verify how breathtaking it is. Frank Lloyd Wright said: "I was totally unprepared for that revelation called the Dakota Bad Lands."
Is the Antelope Canyon really the most visited canyon in the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon? I'd like to see where you got that information...
Gorgeous photos. The first few are the most interesting and by the end they feel like filler.
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amazing shots. just to clarify, the famous "Door to Hell" isn't in Uzbekistan, rather it's in Derweze (or Darwaza), Turkmenistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze
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absolutly awesome collection..
thanks...
awesome collection..
thanks..
Great collection, Arches National Park Utah would've been nice to see in it though.
Check out Cook Inlet with the tide out. Anchorage Alaska.
amazing
This kind of beauty is indescribable! How little we know about the world we live in!
WOOOOOOOW.. AWESOME!!
Fascinating chocolate hills located in the philippine..thousands of hills..
Amazing pictures! But whoever wrote the captions is an idiot. The Grand Canyon is by far the most visited canyon in the American Southwest, and Denmark is NOT the richest country in the world. How about some editing next time?
breathtaking! Makes me long to travel more.
mind blowing
Totally awesome pictures.What great places they would all be to go visit!!
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I want to go to all of those places
That first picture of Socotra Island. Isnt that the tree from Popey the sailor on Mars?
Words can't even begin to describe the beauty captured in these photos or the feelings that they create inside..
Has a lot in common with this article - very nice photos though!
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Great pics, nice to see Iceland at the top.
(that's where I'm at)
Awesome Never thought of such land forms existing in earth...
mind blowing pictures...absolutely breathtaking...thanx
Can't beleive! I used to live in Skagen, very close from those pics are...and never knew how wonderful they look from a certain point of view
Can you say PhotoShop.
i really think they should have took some pics of Bornholm in the Denmark part..
Uhm, Iceland is green and hot and warm... Not
"This is Iceland. The island with no trees, few people and the biggest glacier"
You are getting iceland and greenland confused... the reason the names was to keep the vikings away. Greenland is full of ice cold and not a place you would want to live and is the biggest glacier. Iceland is beautiful and has only 11% of the land is glacier...
Wow- awesome shots. This gives me some ideas of my list of places to go next!
Thanks!
-Kathryn @Travelfusion
Is this photoshopped
nice pics but i missed one spot urgent: check out about pamukkale in turkey
, shout be in ur list
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wow... again
Chocolate Hills in the Island of Bohol, PH is incredibly astounding!unmatched anywhere else in the world!
I went on a four day tour of Salar de Uyuni. it is freeeezing at night but the stars are amazing as are all the beautiful things to see!!! go there!!
So beautiful, AMAZING!!!
i like those stuff THEY ARE SO CUTE LOL =) =-)
Antelope Canyon is amazing, but Arches, Zion, Grand Staircase Escalante and Bryce are just as spectacular
So amazing!
Unbelievable ! Is that Earth ? Fantastic ! I want to big print these pictures..
Unbelievable ! Is that Earth ? Fantastic ! I want to big print these pictures..
Great pictures, but where are the fjords of Norway?
Oh yeah, that's right... They're covered by ash from Iceland
really.....
great picture!!!
God! world is amazing!
I love the walkin tree one! that's fantastic
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those places look mad as
cool as pics but another great place is NZ
those places look mad as
cool as pics but another great place is NZ
Unreal word is most suitable for this.so amazing like heaven.
Planet Earth,can i see this place in my whole life?
Its look like not a real place,really its unreal!
you've chosen some amazing places to visit..well done..i'll put some of those on my wish list..thanks
Awesome sights ..................
The fire pit is in Darvaza, Turkmenistan not in Uzbekistan!!!!!
great... GREAT!!!
Where are the tsingy?!
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subhanallah...very awesome!!!
awesome..........great pics ..marvels on thsi earth ....
Amazing really spellbound
"le" perito moreno glacier
it coud be just "perito moreno glacier" or "el glaciar perito moreno"
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if there ever was a reason to dout that there was a God these pictures are proof that no man could create shuch wonders. thanks for the inspiration to thank God for his beautiful creation
As usual, nature gives us lessons. Is more than great and beyond words
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Fascinating. But Pluto is no longer a planet.
This is in reference to the "Eye of the Sahara": When I was in the US Air Force (1970-1990), I was part of a C130 flight crew the first 8 years of my career. I saw many "unusual" sights and strange phenomenon" from the air. At that time, we were given to not discuss any strange sightings with anyone. During a flight is support of the Sep1994 "King Grain Operation" (Google) to Africa from the Canary Islands, we sighted a very unusual sight. WE were flying between 15K and 20K feet. C130's are low flying aircraft. We say a rock formation that appeared to be 2 circles of rock formation out in the middle of nowhere. Our navigator checked the map and found nothing on the map. We did not know nor had any idea on what it might have been. For the past 38 years, I had been wondering what it was we flew over. I had been searching for all these years. Then our new technology "Google" came. I just saw this "Eye of the Sahara" that the space lab had found during one of their fly over. We saw this rock formation many years before this finding came out. I feel better that we were not the only one that had seen this but we are still wondering what it is that caused this. There is one more sighting that I am still wondering about and will post when I ever I do find out what that other sighting is. Many mysteries of our earth.
correction to previous comment. date of flight should be sep 1974 vice 1994. thank you.
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