通りすがり

We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, Bolivian Salt Lake, or The Richat Structure), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered “normal” for a landscape on Earth.

Imagine waking up on the Socotra Island and taking a good look around you (let’s say your buddies pulled a prank on you and delivered you there, and lets also assume that you don’t have any hangover from abuse of any substances). After a yelp of disbelief, you’d be inclined to think you were transported to another planet - or traveled to another era of Earth’s history.

Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth

インド洋上の島ソコトラ島には、奇妙な植物が自生していますよと言うお話。リンク先には、さらに多数の写真アリ。

これはスゴイですね、一度訪れてみたいものです。

The Fang in Vail (Colorado) is a world famous ice pillar that forms on exceptionally cold winters. Then, when the weather drops, these cascades turn into a giant pillar of ice: a 50 meters high column and about 8 meter large at the base.

Climbing these ice waterfalls at Vail can be extremely dangerous. Adrenaline courses through the bodies of climbers as they look, necks craning, to the lofty heights of a frozen waterfall.

Fogonazos: Climbing up the Giant Ice Fang
YouTube - Preview The Fang

高さ50メートルにまで成長するコロラドの氷柱を登ろうという動画。
これは、アドレナリン出まくりですね。

Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat at 10,582 km² (4,085 square miles). It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, 3,650 meters high. When it is covered with water, the Salar de Uyuni reflects the sky.

The salt is over 10 meters thick in the center. In the dry season, the salt planes are a completely flat expanse of dry salt, but in the wet season, it is covered with a thin sheet of water which makes the most beautiful reflections.

Fogonazos: The world’s largest natural mirror

世界最大の塩湖ウユニ塩原（Salar de Uyuni（スペイン語））に水が溜まると、美しい一枚鏡のようになりますよと言うお話。
リンク先には、さらに多数の写真と動画あり。

一度は、この目で見てみたい風景ですね。

Fogonazos: Top 12 microscopic wonders (videos)

YouTube 上の顕微鏡で撮影された動画のお話。
リンク先には、さらに多数の動画あり。

見ごたえ抜群ですね。

BoredStop.com - Mother Nature Smiles

偶然、スマイリーフェイスのような写真が撮れましたよと言うお話。