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UNIQUE AND WEIRD PLACES

AROUND THE WORLD

Vale Da Lua – 

Brazil 

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INTRODUCTION

Our earth is one of the most beautiful creation of 

ALLAH . Our earth has a lot of beautiful places

which can not be described in words . As you all

know the famous saying that “pictures speaks

thousand words”. 

so i am taking the honour to present you some of 

the pictures.

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PAMUKKALE

Turkey

Pamukkale means cottoncastle, and has also been

called the white castle

because of the vast

whiteness caused by the

high concentration of calcite in the water. The 17

hot springs are heated by

an underground volcano.

The beautiful area of 

Pamukkale, Turkey, has

been used as a healing spa

for thousands of years.

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Nine Hells of

BEPPU

Japan 

Beppu is home to over 2,800hot springs and is found onthe island of Kyushu. Hell 1is Umi Jigoku meaning “seahell”. The pool is a turquoiseblue and is hot enough toboil eggs. Hell 2 is

Oniishibou, meaning“shaven head hell” and getsits name from the boilinggray mud. The mud bubblesto the surface andresembles the shaved headof Buddhist monks. Hell 3 is

Shiraike Jigoku meaning“white pond hell” and isfilled with boiling whitewater caused by the highcalcium concentrations.

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SPOTTED LAKE OF OSOYOOS BRITISH COLUMBIA,

CANADA

Spotted Lake of Osoyoos wassacred to the First Nations of 

Okanagan Valley Indians.

Osoyoos means narrowing

waters in the Okanagan

language, and is used to

describe what happens to thelake. The lake is a saline

electrolite lake, which means

it is a closed body of water

with no outflow or inflow

from other bodies of water.

The lake has high

concentrates of many

different minerals, and

contains some of the highest

quantities of magnesium

sulfate, calcium and sodium

sulfates in the world.

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Cano Cristales– 

 

Colombia 

Cano Cristales is a riverlocated in the Serrania de

la Macarena Mountains.

The area where the river is

found is so remote that

you can only get there byhorse, donkey, or on foot.

Cano Cristales is filled with

waterfalls, rapids, wells

and hollows.

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Fly Geyser Reno –  

Nevada USA 

The spot picked had anunknown geothermal area.

The heated water

eventually found a weak

spot in the well and

pushed itself to thesurface. The minerals

started building up to

create a mini volcano of 

about 5 ft. tall, with layers

of terraces.

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The Plain of Jars

Lao

The Plain of Jars is one of theoldest archeological mysteries

in Southeast Asia. Located on

the plateau of Xieng Khouang,

in the mountains of 

Indochina, there are about 90

different jars sites. Each sitecontains from 1 to 400 jars. It

has been estimated that they

were created 3,000 years ago,

and are made of sandstone,

limestone, granite, breccias

and conglomerate, with the

majority being made of 

sandstone. The tallest jar is

about 9 ft. tall and all are

made from their own

individual slab of stone.

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