Karst landscapes

Wondermondo 🢖 Categories of wonders 🢖 Geological wonders 🢖 Rock formations 🢖 Karst landscapes Category Karst landscapes Described karst landscapes What is included in this category? Limestone, dolostone, and gypsum are quite common rocks and cover a major part of the land. These rocks are soluble and, as the water reaches them, sooner or later voids are forming in the rocks – and […]

Cenote Angelita or… “The Nightmare”

Unique water-filled sinkhole with a ghostly layer of hydrogen sulfate at the depth of some 30 m and seawater below it.

Kitum Cave – salt mine of elephants

Unique caves in pyroclastic rocks, up to 250 meters long. Possibly created by elephants and other animals digging the salt in caves up to this day. Kitum cave became known worldwide after two people caught the extremely dangerous and deadly Marburg virus disease in this cave.

Kelimutu – volcano with differently colored crater lakes

System of three closely located crater lakes. Each of the lakes has a different, changing color – from bright red to green and blue.

Liang Bua – the cave of the mysterious Homo floresiensis

In the cave (and only here) there were discovered remnants of a newly discovered, extinct species of human – Homo floresiensis.

Abanda Caves – caves of unique bat-eating crocodiles

Group of caves in lush rainforest. In these caves lives unique subspecies or, rather, newly developing species of dwarf crocodiles (Osteolamus tetraspis) that feed on bats.

Tidal currents and whirlpools

Wondermondo 🢖 Categories of wonders 🢖 Geological wonders 🢖 Tidal currents and whirlpools Category Tidal currents and whirlpools Described tidal currents and whirlpools What is included in this category? This category includes somewhat lesser-known natural wonders: locations where large masses of water move on a regular basis due to tidal forces. The height of tides around the world’s oceans is very […]

Rock formations

Wondermondo 🢖 Categories of wonders 🢖 Geological wonders 🢖 Rock formations Category Rock formations Described rock formations What is included in this category? This type of landmarks includes most unusual and interesting rock formations of the world. It may sound simple but it isn’t: this group of monuments tends to grow and grow without end, encompassing diverse seemingly unrelated things. Thus […]

Glacial landforms

Wondermondo 🢖 Categories of wonders 🢖 Geological wonders 🢖 Glacial landforms Category Glacial landforms Described glacial landforms What is included in this category? This category includes the most impressive glacial landforms in the world. What are glacial landforms? The Earth has gone through at least five major ice ages and currently we live through one of them. Each of these ice […]

Geothermal fields

The most impressive geothermal fields – areas where the groundwater is heated by magma and forms interesting natural monuments.