ridicule is nothing to be scared of
daily musings & inspirational pictures from a shoe-addicted, leather sniffing, colour-obsessed physics student
Derweze, also known as the door to hell, is a 70 meter wide hole in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The hole was formed in 1971 when a team of soviet geologists had their drilling rig collapse when they hit a cavern filled with natural gas. In an attempt to avoid poisonous discharge, they decided to burn it off, thinking that the gas would be depleted in only a few days. Derweze is still burning today.
(via praesens)
Source: goodnamesgone
Sri Lankan Blue Magpie
Palau
Jellyfish Lake, Palau
Baby Turtle
This is an attempt to summarise how I’ll be spending my week in Northern Ireland. Any recommendations for the areas I’ll be visisting are greatly appreciated (Dublin, Belfast, Antrim, Rathlin). Map locations of sea caves are most welcome.
Day one:
Flying to Dublin, taking the train to Belfast & wandering around Belfast for a bit, maybe do a bike tour.
Day two:
Bus to Armoy, walking to the Dark Hedges.
Walking to Bushmills.
Day three:
Walking to Portrush along White Rocks, look for sea caves.
Visit Dunluce Castle, look for more sea caves.
Day four:
Walking to Portballintrae, visit the Giant’s Causeway.
More caves, visit some stone age sites, cross Carrick-a-Rede bridge.
Visit Kinbane Castle, walk on to Ballycastle.
Day five:
Ferry to Rathlin Island, walk to West Rathlin, visit Kebble Nature Reserve.
Look for puffins.
Day six:
Walk to East and South Rathlin, visit Bruce’s Castle ruins, Altacarry lighthouse.
Look for more sea caves. Seal-watching in Mill Bay
Back to Ballycastle.
Day seven:
Back to Belfast, train to Dublin. Wander around Dublin for a bit.
Day eight:
More touristy stuff in Dublin. Visit the Trinity College library (aka the Jedi Archives), look at the Book of Kells.
Flying back home.
Start planning next holiday.
Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland
Fingal’s Cave, Staffa, off the Isle of Mull, Scotland
Supposedly, this is the other end of the Giant’s Causeway.
Runkerry house, Bushmills, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Dun Briste, Downpatrick Head, Knockaun, County Mayo, Ireland
I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately, but this Siamang monkey is kind of cute.
Danakil depression, Ethiopia
Fascinada, Our Lady of Skrpjel, Perast Islands, Montenegro
The Golden Rock, Yangon, Burma
