Huanglong Valley

Travertine pools in Huanglong Valley, China

Possibly the largest travertine terraces in the world, they extend for 3.6 kilometers and are deposited by mildly thermal springs.

Lonar crater

Lonar crater lake, India

A meteorite crater filled with a saltwater lake. The bolide hit the basaltic rock approximately 570,000 years ago. The diameter of the crater is 1.8 km, with a 1.2 km wide lake in it, depth of the crater – around 150 m. Lonar Lake contains rare and unusual microorganisms.

Wonders of Maharashtra

Kailasanathas Temple in Ellora, India

Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Asia 🢖 Wonders of India 🢖 Wonders of Maharashtra Territory Wonders of Maharashtra   Highlights Maharashtra is a truly splendid state. It has everything – enormous metropolises and countless waterfalls in mountains, urban decay and architectural splendor, remnants of millennia-old Harappan towns and modern, very expensive architecture. Highlights of Maharashtra are: Rock-cut temples. Some of them belong to […]

North-Western solfatara field of Shiashkotan

Sinarka volcano on Shiashkotan Island. North-Western solfatara field is in the central part of image, partly obscured with clouds

An interesting geothermal field where in 2007 was discovered a geyser-like spring named "Chornij Drakon" (Black Dragon). Here is located also a spouter "Geizernij" that on a regular basis spurts 1 – 1.5 m high jet of gas and water.

Wonders of Asia

Bagan, Burma

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Wonders of Lebanon

Pigeons' Rock or Rock of Raouché in Beirut

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Bala’a sinkhole (Baatara sinkhole) and waterfall

Bala'a sinkhole, Lebanon

Approximately 255 m deep, nearly vertical cave with waterfall in it. The entrance in the cave is some 70 m deep sinkhole. Here waterfall has percolated one side of sinkhole, creating three natural bridges one above the other. Waterfall disappears underground.

Masada

Masada fortress. Double fortification wall around the plateau is well visible

Dramatic fortress/ refuge on top of table mountain, constructed in 37 – 31 BC, taken by Romans simultaneously with the mass suicide of 960 defenders in 73 AD. Here are located remnants of one of the world’s oldest synagogues.

Wonders of Israel

Landscape at the Dead Sea, Israel

Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Asia 🢖 Wonders of Israel Territory Wonders of Israel   Highlights If there is a land on the crossroads of civilizations, then Israel is one. Here from Africa to the remaining world entered different species of humans, including us. The area of Israel was located between the first civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia. The whole […]