1. Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy. You go there, you see that it tilts, and you think, that's a pretty small tower. My sandcastles used to tilt, too, for the same reason. A faulty foundation.
2. Trojan Horse, Çanakkale|, Turkey. Yeah, it's a work of the imagination, not a real anything. We didn't know it was tacky, not warlike or mysterious, until we wasted several hours getting there. We should've stayed in glorious Istanbul or kept going south down the lovely west coast.
The one that I have been and seen is:
RANEH FALLS
I am very excited to introduce a mysterious place less explored. Located around 25 Kms from Khajuraho in Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh in the midst of dense forests (Ken Wildlife Sanctuary) and road less travelled.
Travelling to this place is only suggested during the day as you would hardly find any habitats on the way and the jungle is known for its wild-wildest animals.
It is a natural water falls in Ken river. Kind of River Canyon! You can observe 7–8 kinds of mineral rocks like granite, dolomite, black basalt, Jasper, Quartz from shades of pink, red, grey, brown, black and see the ageing of rock too.
It is a beautiful breathtaking sight ❤️.
You can take a safari and easily spot wild animals like Wild boars, Deer, Gaur, Sambar Deer, Jackel, Fox, Chital, Nilgai, Wild Pigs..
The best time for safari is early morning or just before sunset. There is a guest house for stay. We preferred staying after our evening safari and was curious for morning safari too- it was a terrific night for me as I was very scared of the wild animals. But, it was worth it. The morning safari was very different as I could see animals playing/jumping/running.
Forest guards on duty do control the area keeping the safety of people from wild animals.
Look at the rocky structure. This is a picture taken during monsoon.
Pic - a photographer friend (Suveer Singh Sikarwar)
And, these pictures are from our winter visit to this place.
This is fascinating- you see the green water? It is stagnated and known for home to Aligators (Ghariyal). We could spot a few in the bank around the greenwater. It is also famous as “Ken Ghariyal Sanctuary”.
Do visit soon before the “Dam Project” on Ken river is completed as there will be just Canyons without water.
Beautiful picture, right?
Truly beautiful, right?
Now before you ask me where is this place and you wish to spend some of your hard-earned money and visit with your wife, do remember to make sure you have
Or you better take my word that seeing it in pictures is a lot safer. Because beyond the above beauties, there is another, ghastlier face-
Presenting you, the Most Polluted spot on this Planet- Lake Karachay
, RussiaBack in the days when Cold War was at full swing, the Mayak Association, one of the country’s biggest nuclear weapons facilities, was situated close to the lake, and began dumping all forms of by-products into this lake. In addition, water from here was used for cooling purposes of the processing machinery, further aggravating the whole thing.
Apparently speedy production of weapon-grade plutonium was given far more priority than proper safety standards, and God knows who got this legend of an idea to use the lake as a temporary dumping site for all the nuclear waste until they could be stored in a somewhat better and safer underground storage vats.
Somewhere in 1957, tragedy struck in form of a plant explosion at Mayak, releasing enough contaminants to make people seriously ill. The government kept the whole thing as a secret, until one day very soon, they ended up turning an entire affected region into some “natural reserve”
restricted to outside world. In addition, the lake since then was filled with every possible sediment from concrete to sand to make sure that somehow the pollution could be put far away from dangerous levels. However even at such points, it was said that even staying at shores of lake without proper protection for under a minute is enough to not just give you cancer, but kill you altogether!!!While recent pictures from the lake are missing, but as far news goes, the lake has now become a "near-surface permanent and dry nuclear waste storage facility."
But then, as far as thing goes, it is not worth of visit, unless they wish to get punched by seriously lethal doses of radiation, which has no guarantee whatsoever.
In rest of the world, you contaminate lake. In Soviet Russia, lake contaminates you!!!!
No offense!!!
Pichavaram Mangrove Forest!
Most of us know that the world's biggest mangrove forest is Sundarbans spread in West Bengal and Bangladesh.
But majority doesn't know that the second largest mangrove forests is also in India. It's the Pichavaram mangrove forest in Tamil Nadu.
The forest is spread about 1100 acres and there are more than 400 routes for boating. The forest is known for its richness in biodiversity. It houses some endangered species of plants and birds.
Snakes could surprise you during your boat ride. As you go inside the forest, it would get denser and you could feel the thrill and the adventure.
This place has not become a commercial tourist destination yet. I wish this place remain underrated and unknown to the humans of the world. Let this place remain free from us!