Darkness envelopes the cool desert night with only the flickering of the crater to guide our way.
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Into the Realm of Hephaestus
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 theContinue reading “Riding on the Edge of the Abyss”
Farflungistan 