We had a few posts here on ice caves and ice hotels and we figured since we started a trend anyway, we should continue with something no less spectacular: ice waves. This unique phenomenon occurs in Antarctica, so if you’re ever in a wild expedition near Earth’s southernmost continent, you may come across it.
Pamukkale is an amazing display of natural hot water pools in Denizli Province, south-western Turkey. What you see in the photos below are known as travertines or the terraces that form due to the carbonate minerals that gather up as the flowing water circles. Pamukkale is actually Turkish for “cotton castle”, a name that we think manages to characterize the true inner “fluffiness” of this place.
Colmar, France. By Nikkodem
With a charming country-town atmosphere and a strong historical heritage, Colmar is not only “the most Alsatian town in Alsace”, and the wine capital of the region, but also a place for the fairytale believers.
Photo by Buck Forester
A wide sheet of burnished metal, Mono Lake is situated in Eastern Sierra, California and is said to have been formed thousands of years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that had and has no physical connection to the ocean or other nearby lakes. This is also what caused the high salt levels and its alkaline feature.