Monday, 9 January 2012

Darvaz: The Door to Hell

 (via only in russia Posted on March 25, 2008)
This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”.
It is situated near the small town of Darvaz.
The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once geologists were drilling for gas.
Then suddenly during the drilling they had found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got buried deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gasses could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s been burning, already for 35 years without any pause.
Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.

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