9 Let's move to the southwest coast of Australia. Here is the world-famous group of rocks called the Twelve Apostles (The Twelve Apostles).

10 And it's incredible a nice place located in southern Africa in South Africa. Dragon Mountains, I think, looking at the photo, it’s not difficult to understand where such a name came from.

11 And back to Australia! Why not? After all, in real life it's hard to make such jumps... Banda Rocks is the place that most of all looks like the real end of the world. The Australian Nullarbor Plain ends abruptly in southern Australia. Imagine what the first sailors who visited here thought.

12 Eleuthera is an island on the border between the shallow Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The island has a length of 180 km, and in some places it reaches the width shown in the photo above.

13 The volcanic island of Ogashima in Japan. If you want to live inside a volcano, then you are here. Approximately 200 people live here permanently. People are quite satisfied with their position, and do not want to go anywhere.

17 And this is China: here is such unusual place like a stone forest. Yes, you heard right, although these places have another name - the mountains of Guilin.

The stone forest consists mainly of limestone, that is, it is roughly the bottom of the ancient sea, which eventually rose to the surface. Weaker rocks collapsed and eroded under the influence of erosion (water, wind, rain, etc.) and only these stone idols remained.

18 What can be special about the field? But even here, nature manages to surprise and delight us! Emerald fields Palouse (Palouse) in the USA (states of Idaho, Washington and Oregon). These beautiful meadows are spread over dunes and hills, and look like an emerald sea. These dunes and hills were formed during the ice age, and when the ice left, green meadows appeared in its place.

Option 1. Peculiar and indescribably beautiful nature in autumn. Despite the fact that rain and fog are quite frequent, there are also clear, quiet days for a walk in the nearest forest. Swear, love the golden robe of the forest, listen to the birds singing, look at the birds flying away. Thunder rumbled somewhere in the distance. Drop by drop it began to rain. Hiding under a tree, he looked around. How beautiful it is around I like it autumn nature . The air is so fresh! I really don't want to go home.

Option 2. Human and nature are closely related to each other. Nature creates all the conditions for human life, so it is so important to live in harmony with it. Beautiful landscapes of nature fill the human soul with delight, only this beauty is truly mesmerizing. Man's interest in nature is unlimited; how many secrets and mysteries are forests and seas. There's a lot we don't know yet about nature. To enjoy the beauty of nature, you do not need to travel far, just go to a park or forest. Nature is especially beautiful in autumn, when you want to sit on the benches and absorb all its beauty, enjoy it. It is then that you feel how your soul is filled with new colors, how it is saturated with the beauty of the surrounding world. At these moments, you realize how closely people are connected with nature.

A mass tourist, as a rule, always visits those places that are most written about on the Internet and which are the most popular, but in every country there are unknown, but such magnificent and impressive places. If we take into account the vast territory of Russia, then there are dozens of such places here: unique lakes, mountains, hills, stone pillars. Before compiling your tourist route, you should definitely pave the way, http://www.tourister.ru/tips/ 3119 will help you with this. And let's start the description of the most mysterious and beautiful, secret places from the Komi Republic.

Seven pillars of weathering rising from the plateau create a fantastic landscape. The height of the largest pillar reaches 34 meters, and some of them resemble the body of an animal. Weathering pillars are the remains of large mountains that succumbed to destruction under the force of the wind.

Unusual pillars are located in the Republic of Sakha. Along the right bank of the Lena River, the Lena Pillars rise, which appeared as a result of the impact of the wind on the once impregnable stone cliffs. No one lives in these wild stone places, and for many tourists they cause mystical experiences, inspire fear.

Lake Elton in the Volgograd region, resembling a large salt puddle of 150 sq. Km. Surprisingly, the depth of the lake does not exceed 10 cm in summer, and 70 cm in winter. The water in the lake has useful healing properties.

Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad region. On a large strip of sand there is a beautiful forest with unusually curved trees, with rare species of animals and birds. From a bird's eye view, the scythe looks like a huge saber.

Multinsky lakes in Altai: a group of small lakes cascading over each other create unusually beautiful landscapes in the mountains. There are also the most rare species plants.

The landmark of Altai is Mount Belukha, the highest point of the region, on which there are many glaciers, which makes climbing the mountain dangerous.

Kamchatka itself is a region of amazing and impregnable beauty, and the valley of geysers replenishes these landscapes. This is one of the largest geyser fields in the world, which is very difficult to get to, but the landscapes are worth the effort and nerves expended. Most best method to explore the valley of geysers is a helicopter tour, as there is a strict protected regime on the territory.

IN Perm region immediately located two unique places: the Kungur ice cave, 5700 m long, inside which there are about 70 lakes, and the Orda underwater cave, a favorite place for cave divers. Ordinskaya cave is dangerous for descent due to numerous dead-end sections, long tunnels.

The nature of Russia is our main wealth. In our country there is the highest mountain in Europe, and the largest forest, and the largest swamp, there is a pink lake and the most unusual desert.

1. Baikal

Baikal is the most deep lake in the world (1642 meters). It ranks first in the world among fresh lakes in terms of fresh water volume (19% of world reserves). There is more of it than in all five Great Lakes combined. If suddenly all the water on Earth disappears, Baikal will be able to provide water to humanity for five years.

2. Valley of Geysers

There are about 100 geysers in the Valley of Geysers, 20 of them are large. They are not inferior in size to the hot springs of Iceland, Yellowstone National Park and New Zealand. Their uniqueness lies in the fact that they are located in a small area (only 5 km along the Geysernaya River).

3. Krasnoyarsk pillars

There is such a phenomenon - "stolbism" - a fanatical desire to conquer Krasnoyarsk rock climbing without insurance. The pillars are located 3-7 km from Krasnoyarsk, there are more than a hundred of them and each has its own name. Their age is 500 million years.
Their height reaches 90 meters. The uniqueness of the pillars is that a reserve was created here back in 1925, on the territory of which there are about 1300 species of plants, 58 species of mammals, 199 species of birds. Every year about 200 thousand tourists come to admire the Krasnoyarsk pillars.

4. Vasyugan swamps

This is the world's largest swamp system in the north of the Tomsk region on a plateau between the Ob and the Irtysh. The swamps are 10 thousand years old. The area is more than 53 thousand km², the length of the marshes from west to east is 573 kilometers.

Every year the swamp captures new territories. It is a source of water, a reservoir of oil and gas, peat, an area of ​​untouched nature inhabited by rare species of birds and animals.

5. Forest Komi

The primeval forest of Komi became the first natural object Russia, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. This is a huge untouched natural massif (15% of the territory of the Komi Republic).
The uniqueness of the forest is that nature here has retained its original appearance. Not so long ago, gold deposits were discovered in the Komi forest. But the state decided that the virgin forest is more expensive than gold, so its production was frozen.

6. Vottovaara

A mountain in Karelia is called the "Russian Stonehenge". There are megaliths, lakes, bizarre trees and even a stone staircase. "Stonehenge" Vottovaara is called because of the seids, huge stones that are located here.
There are several versions of their appearance. According to one of them, the sinking of the glacier led to such an arrangement of stones, according to another, the reason is the earthquake that occurred here BC. Some scholars believe that seids are of artificial origin and had a cult purpose among the Sami.

7. Pillars of weathering

Weathering pillars on Mount Manpupuner in Komi are also called "Mansi Balvans". These are 7 rocks from 32 to 42 meters high. They are called weathering pillars because mountains were located here 200 million years ago, over time they collapsed, exposing the remnants of hard rocks. Previously, these stone statues were worshiped by the Mansi, today the pillars are a unique and hard-to-reach geological monument.

8. Elbrus

Elbrus is a volcano in the western part of the Caucasus Range, which has been inactive for about 2 thousand years. Its height is 5642 meters. This is the highest mountain in the Caucasus, the highest mountain in Europe and the highest point in Russia.
Elbrus is covered by 23 glaciers, the area of ​​which is more than 130 square kilometers. Elbrus feeds almost the entire North Caucasus. Its glaciers give life to three major rivers- Kuban, Malku and Baksan.

9. Lena Pillars

Lena Pillars are located just 140 km from Yakutsk (for those places this is a trifling distance). In their present form, they appeared 400 thousand years ago, as a result of the uplift of the Siberian platform, which made the river valleys deeper.
Some of the pillars reach a height of 150 meters. For geologists, the Lena Pillars are a real find: among these rocks, many rare fossils of extinct animals are found, for example, a mammoth, a woolly rhinoceros, a Lena horse.

10. Putorana Plateau

The Putorana Plateau is located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The name, translated from Evenki, means "lakes with steep banks". Its length is almost 500 km, and its area is 250 thousand km², which is comparable to the size of Great Britain. The city closest to the plateau, Norilsk, is located 300 km from it.
Putorana Plateau - unique nature reserve. There are 25 thousand lakes and a lot of animals, which is not typical for these northern latitudes. Included in the list world heritage UNESCO.

11. Curonian Spit

The Curonian Spit is an almost 100-kilometer narrow strip of land that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the rest of the Baltic Sea. And on it - dunes. Drifting dunes on the Curonian Spit are the highest in Europe (from 30 to 60 meters). Every spring and autumn, 10 to 20 million birds fly over the coma. The Curonian Spit is also unique for its “dancing forests”. Since 2000, the Curonian Spit has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

12. Kungur cave

The Kungur ice cave is one of the largest in the world and the only cave in Russia specially equipped for excursions. It is located in the Urals, between Perm and Yekaterinburg.

The age of the Kungur ice cave is almost 10-12 thousand years. The total length of the corridors is about 6000 meters, and the length of the tourist route is 1.5 km. The cave has 58 halls and about 70 lakes. Some grottoes reach 50-100 meters in length and 20 meters in height.

13. Lake Trinity

You can’t swim in Troitskoye Lake on the Maly Semyachik volcano - it has a very high concentration of sulfur and acid. This "water" can even corrode the aluminum blades of the oars. This lake has a very bright color - bright green - due to the combination of hydrogen particles with acids.
Due to cracks in the bottom, the depth of Trinity Lake is constantly changing. The temperature also varies - from 20 to 60 degrees.

14. Caldera Uzon

The Uzon caldera in Kamchatka is a unique natural monument and an object of biogeocenosis. There is a rich flora and fauna, but the local lakes are especially impressive. One of them is filled with weak sulfuric acid, mercury and sulfur are released around the others. Literally before our eyes, minerals are formed. The most interesting thing is that these lakes are also inhabited, acid-producing bacteria live in sulfuric lakes, and archaea, one of the oldest forms of life, and thionic bacteria live in others.

15. Lake Elton

Elton is a drainless self-sustaining lake in the Pallas district of the Volgograd region, the largest salt lake in Europe with medicinal brine and mud. The largest mineral lake in Europe by area. Its mineralization is 1.5 times higher than in the Dead Sea. Due to the algae Dunaliella salina contained in the water, the color of the lake is reddish. Since the time of Ivan the Terrible, Elton has been used to extract salt.

16. Waterfall Zeygalan

The Zeygalan waterfall in North Ossetia is the highest waterfall in Europe. Its height is more than 600 meters. Most Europeans, however, do not even know about it and consider the Swiss Reinfals waterfall to be the highest. Zeygalan, originates in one of the gorges at an altitude of 4000 meters. Geologists say that this unique natural circus, on the slopes of which waterfalls are born, is the mouth of an ancient volcano.

17. Proval Lake

The unique and one of a kind Lake Proval is located inside the laccolith mountain Mashuk in Pyatigorsk. The diameter of the cave in the form of a tapering funnel with a lake at the bottom is as much as 15 meters at its widest point, and its height is 41 meters.
Due to the sulfur and bacteria contained in the water, the water in the lake is bright turquoise. Its temperature fluctuates from 26 degrees above zero.

18. Rotten Mountain

Rotten Mountain - the largest mud volcano (blevak) in the Russian Caucasus. It is located near Temryuk. Of course, it can be called a mountain with some exaggeration. This plateau is more than a kilometer in diameter, and on it are cones and vents.
Despite the not-too-appetizing name, the dirt of the Rotten Mountain Blewak is not only safe (their temperature is not more than 14 degrees), but also healing.

19. Crater Lake Elgygytgyn

Elgygytgyn means "non-freezing". This Chukchi lake is unique in that it has never been frozen over in all 3 and a half million years of its history. Therefore, its bottom sediments are indispensable soil samples for scientists that can tell about the geological history. In this regard, Elgygytgyn has no analogues in the world.

Last week, the world was excited by the news of the discovery in the Peruvian Amazonian jungle of the legendary boiling river, in which, literally, you can boil yourself alive. However, this is far from the only natural phenomenon, from the beauty of which you can lose the gift of speech, which we invite you to verify by looking at our selection.

An illusion of an underwater waterfall off the coast of Mauritius.
At first glance, it may seem that a whirlpool has opened off the coast of a tropical island in the Indian Ocean, but in fact it is optical illusion created by deposits of silt and sand on seabed.

Sprites.
Aircraft pilots are the only lucky ones who have the opportunity to observe this amazing a natural phenomenon. Red flashes of light lasting a few milliseconds appear at an altitude of more than 80 kilometers above the Earth during a severe thunderstorm.

Methane bubbles on the Vermilion lakes in Canada.
Thousands of methane bubbles frozen into ice on the lakes of Vermilion in national park Banff in Alberta, look like the mysterious inhabitants of the underwater depths.

Lake Natron in Tanzania.
Salt Lake Natron is located in the East African Rift Valley in Tanzania near the Kenyan border. Algae give the red color to the water.

Road of the Giants in Northern Ireland.
This monument of nature, consisting of more than 40 thousand basalt columns, formed as a result of a volcanic eruption tens of millions of years ago, looks like scenery for a movie.

Eucalyptus rainbow.
The bark of the rainbow eucalyptus can be green, orange or purple depending on the age of the tree.

Carpet of flowers in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Atacama is the driest desert in the world, but during the rainy season, it miraculously transforms. Every 5-7 years the lifeless desert is covered with a carpet of pink flowers.

Crab migration on Christmas Island in Australia.
The tiny island is home to over 43 million red earth crabs, which rush to the coast to spawn during the breeding season.

Great Blue Hole in Belize.
An underwater sinkhole with a diameter of more than 300 meters and a depth of 124 meters off the coast of Belize is a popular diving site.

The Caño Cristales River in Colombia.
The river is called the "liquid rainbow" due to the abundance of multi-colored algae of the species macarenia clavigera, which are found only on the Macarena mountain range.

Lenticular clouds.
Lenticular clouds form over mountain ranges in strong winds and high humidity. This is a fairly common natural phenomenon, but at the same time it is difficult to notice due to the presence of other clouds.

"The door to the underworld", Turkmenistan.
Gas crater Darvaza in Turkmenistan. Natural gas escaping from the crater has been burning continuously since 1971.

Migration of Monarch butterflies.
In late summer and early autumn, butterflies of the Danaid Monarch species migrate from the USA and Canada to Mexico, during which females lay eggs.

The vine-covered fishing village of Hotuwan in China.

Richat, Marvitania.
Geological formation Richat in the Sahara desert in Mauritania.

Flowers in Death Valley.
Dry in winter national park Death Valley is covered with a flower carpet.

Pearlescent clouds.
Mother-of-pearl clouds, turning the heavenly slope into an impressionist canvas, appear over Norway and other polar regions.

Trees with twisted trunks in Poland.
About 400 pine trees with mysteriously twisted trunks grow in a forest in northwestern Poland.

Zhangye Danxia National Geopark in Gansu Province, China.
The beauty of this landscape is given by deposits of sandstone and minerals that have been formed over 24 million years.

Spotted Kliluk Lake in British Columbia, Canada.
At first glance, it may seem that the multi-colored spots on the surface of the water are accumulations of algae, but in fact these are islands of minerals that are exposed when the lake becomes shallow due to water evaporation in the summer.