Category: Darvaza Gas Craters
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In the Light
Darkness envelopes the cool desert night with only the flickering of the crater to guide our way.
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Riding on the Edge of the Abyss
Our Land Rover sits a little too close for comfort on the very edge of one of the ‘mud holes’ at Dervaza (Turkic for “The Gate”) on the Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan border. These enormous sinkholes go down for hundreds of meters and open up into vast pools of molten earth. One has to take care of the […]
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