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According to Dante, the river Styx, through which the shadows of the dead are ferried to the country of the dead - is not just a river, and an eerie swamp, flood the entire fifth circle of hell. Like it or not, we will not know until it's our time. In the meantime, a perfect illustration of Dante's vision can serve as Lake Natron, which is located in Tanzania, on the border with Kenya.

If you do not tilapia-ekstremofil, the better off you to this lake is not even close. The water temperature here is 60 ° C, while alkaline properties range between pH 9 and pH 10, 5.

The name of the lake was due to the high content natrita (a natural compound of sodium carbonate and conventional soda), which penetrates into the water with volcanic ashes of the Great Rift Valley. Animals in such water, die and their bodies harden.

Amazingly well-preserved remains of birds that you see in these pictures, the photographer Nick Brandt found. "I could not stop to photograph them - he admits. - No one knows exactly how they died, perhaps their baffled perfect-mirror surface of the lake, and they cut into it, as in the glass.