The gates of Hell are always opened in Turkmenistan Bashny.Net

In a very famous desert of Turkmenistan is to tremble at heart an unusual place, the name of which sounds really creepy "Gates of Hell".


This name formed a huge hole named by local residents. They can easily understand. How else can you christen a bottomless, eternally flaming fire breathing deepening, which does not lose its awesome power, day or night. Having been to the "Gates of Hell" almost all the tourists a marvelous way to begin to understand the wretchedness of what is happening. The ever-combustible pit man strangely evaluates helpless before the mighty forces of nature.


Few people know that the history of the emergence of this phenomenon begins with 1971. It was then in the Karakum desert has been very active robots for the extraction of natural gas. In that hour occurred a great mistake geologists. As a result of drilling, the workers hit the gas the cave, where, eventually, failed all equipment and transport.Since the cave was completely filled with gas, the experts decided to singe it, in order to avoid mass poisoning. Since the fire was not extinguished. During this time, many valuable raw materials left in the air. But, as a result, a beautiful tourist attraction, which popularitywith Turkmenistan throughout the world.


  

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