One of the most beautiful places in the world is Skaftafell Ice Cave, located in Vatnjokull National Park in southeast Iceland. This cave in the glacier ice is the result of glacial mill where rain and melt water on the glacier surface are channeled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices.
Because the ice is highly pressurized and contains no air bubbles, it absorbs all visible light except for blue, which is the colour that reflects back to us. The cave is most colourful during the winter after a rainfall. The surface of the glacier has been washed away and winter light enters the chamber from both ends, illuminating the inside.
The cave is accessible through a 22-foot entrance on the shoreline. At the end it tapers to a tight squeeze no more than four feet high. Ice caves are in general unstable things and can collapse at any time. They are safe to enter only in winter when the cold temperatures harden the ice.
At the other end of the world, we find Lady Musgrave Island, from Australia. Is the only coral island on the Great Barrier Reef with a navigable lagoon – over eight kilometres in circumference. In summer, turtles come ashore to lay their eggs and thousands of seabirds nest in rookeries on the uninhabited island. The island is a national park and there are no shops or facilities ashore. However, camping wilderness style is permitted for up to 40 people at a time.
Baatar Gorge waterfall is located in Tannourine, Lebanon. The water has a fall of 225 meters, made in a cave dating back to the Jurassic period. Baatar waterfall was discovered in 1952 by Henri French Biospeologica Coiffait. The cave is also known as the "three bridges gap" ("Gouffre des Trois Ponts").
Marble Caves of Chile are considered the most beautiful in the world. Formed by 6,000-plus years of waves washing up against calcium carbonate, the smooth, swirling blues of the cavern walls are a reflection of the lake's azure waters, which change in intensity and hue, depending on water levels and time of year.
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May 17, 2013
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