Our world is full of marvels and such beauty of nature, about which many are unaware.
Not long ago the world excited the news of the discovery in the Peruvian Amazon jungle to the legendary boiling river, where, literally, you can boil alive.
However, this is not the only natural phenomenon of beauty is possible to lose the gift of speech, what we invite you to see our selection.
1. The illusion of an underwater waterfall off the coast of Mauritius
At first glance it may seem that the coast of a tropical island in the Indian ocean opened up a vortex, but actually it is an optical illusion created by deposits of silt and sand on the seabed.
2. Sprites
Aircraft pilots – only those fortunate enough to have the opportunity to see this amazing natural phenomenon. Red flash of light lasting a few milliseconds appear at a height of more than 80 kilometers above the Earth during a severe thunderstorm.
3. Methane bubbles in lakes Vermilion Canada
Thousands of methane bubbles frozen in the ice on Vermilion lakes in Banff National Park in Alberta, similar to the mysterious inhabitants of the underwater depths.
4. Lake Natron in Tanzania
The salty lake Natron is located in the East African rift valley in Tanzania, near the Kenyan border. The red hue of the water give the algae.
5. Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland
This monument of nature, consisting of more than 40 thousand basalt columns, formed as a result of a volcanic eruption millions of years ago, like the scenery for the film.
6. Eucalyptus deglupta
The bark of the rainbow eucalyptus can have green, orange or purple depending on the age of the tree.
7. A carpet of flowers in the Atacama desert in Chile
Atacama – the most arid desert in the world, but in the rainy season she’s a remarkable way transformed. Every 5-7 years the lifeless desert is covered with a carpet of pink flowers.
8. The migrating crabs on Christmas island in Australia
On a tiny island home to more than 43 million red crabs of excavation, which in the breeding season flock to the coast to reject the caviar.
9. The great blue hole in Belize
Underwater sinkhole with a diameter of over 300 meters and a depth of 124 meters off the coast of Belize a popular diving spot.
10. The river caño Cristales in Colombia
The river is called “the liquid rainbow” due to the abundance of mixed species of algae macarenia clavigera, which are found only in the mountain range of the Macarena.
11. Lenticular clouds
Lenticular clouds form over mountain ranges with strong wind and high humidity. This is a fairly common natural phenomenon, but at the same time, it is difficult to see because of the presence of other clouds.
12. “The door to hell”, Turkmenistan
Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan. Natural gas coming from the crater, burning continuously since 1971.
13. The migration of butterflies species monarch butterfly
In late summer and early autumn, the migration of butterflies species monarch butterfly from the United States and Canada to Mexico, during which females lay eggs.
14. Entwined with twine plants is a fishing village Hotown in China
15. Richat, Mavritania
Geological formation richat in the Sahara desert in Mauritania.
16. Flowers in Death Valley
In winter arid national Park Death Valley is covered with flower carpet.
17. Mother of pearl clouds
Mother-of-pearl clouds, turning the sky slope in the canvas impressionist painter, appear over Norway and other polar regions.
18. Trees with curved trunks in Poland
Approximately 400 pine trees with curved trunks mysteriously grow in the forest in North-Western Poland.
19. National Geopark Zhangye danxia peak in Gansu, China
Beauty of the landscape lend the deposits of Sandstone and minerals that were formed over 24 million years.
20. Kliluk spotted lake in British Columbia, Canada
At first glance it may seem that the colored spots on the surface of the water is the accumulation of algae, but in fact it is the islets of minerals that are exposed, when in the summer the lake is shallower due to the evaporation of water.
