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Amazing Landscapes
Topic Started: Feb 8 2009, 01:09 PM (230 Views)
StrmySummer
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Visit central Turkey, and you will believe in fairies—or at least their dwellings. Cappadocia is a land of natural spires, called fairy chimneys by the Turks, formed by flimsy volcanic ash protected by capstones of basalt. Despite the name, the dwellings carved into the cliff- and spire-sides were built first by ancient peoples with Flintstone-like aesthetics, and later early Christians and then Byzantines, who constructed monasteries and churches complete with frescoes that can still be viewed today.

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In Namibia, there is a desert where the sands sing and ships go to die. Called “The Land God Made in Anger” by the Namibian natives, the Skeleton Coast is one of the most arid places on Earth, seeing less than half an inch of rain a year. The region is named for the whalebones that littered the shore in the whaling era, but still applies to the thousand-plus shipwrecks that litter the shore, foundered in fog and heavy surf. Still, its looming ochre dunes are among the most picturesque in the world, trod only by oryx, desert elephants and a few hardy travelers.

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With 4,000 square miles and 10 billion tons of salt, the Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat. Hills in the distance appear to float, the horizon acting as a giant mirror. Tourists roam its crystalline expanse in jeeps, taking pictures of themselves getting squished by a friend’s giant foot or popping out of a Coca-Cola bottle, using the featureless flats like a blue screen set. The best time to visit is between March and May when the flats are free of water but are not yet freezing. Tours are one or three days long; try to find a group of people you like, since you’ll be six people in the back of a jeep. Book tours in La Paz or Uyuni itself; they’re all the same.

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Welsh Shaun
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Any idea how tall those spires are?
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StrmySummer
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no clue, and i tried to read the rest of that part of the posting and couldn't see anything that said it, i wonder if you did a search like on maybe google to see if it would say :reading:
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Delovely
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Those are amazing. Here's an article I found on Cappadocia, one of the wonderlands I want to visit someday:

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Cappadocia Turkey

Cave churches and fairy chimneys
– In the background of Anatolia

Cappadocia, translated “the land of beautiful horses”, is the old name for the triangle area between Kayseri, Ürgüp and Nigde in the north-east of Turkey in the heart of Anatolia. This is the land of the underground cities, the fairy chimneys, cave dwellings and churches, but also the vineyards, apricots, almonds and olives.

At first glance reminds Cappadocia in a landscape from “1000 and One Nights”. The almost surreal looking tuff region lit at dusk in a variety of pastel colors: pink, yellow, blue, light gray or white are canyons, spires, pyramids, fireplaces, cone and strange rock forms on the horizon. It really only missing gnomes and fairies to a perfect fairy-tale landscape.

Tuff formation

Brodelnde volcanoes were here before Early active überschütteten the region with masses of lava and ash. Together with wind and weather, but especially extreme temperature fluctuations of up to 25 degrees Celsius, they created in Central Anatolia in the course of millennia, a bizarre formation in tuff.
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StrmySummer
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that's really cool Del......i hadn't heard of it before i saw the pics i'd posted :reading:
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Those are beautiful photo's
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i thought they were pretty amazing
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