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Most of the area is the Karakum Desert. A huge melting pot in the Turkmenistan desert has been spitting fire for decades, but its origins are considered top secret.

According to Times Now, the Karakum Desert is a vast expanse of sun-baked sand dunes that covers around 70% of Turkmenistan. You can explore this 350,000 square kilometer barren land for days and just see the endless peaks and valleys of the Karakum wilderness.

But if you venture into the desert’s north-central plains, visitors might discover a dreamlike site: Darvaza Crater, a liquid gas vent that has been spewing flames for decades and is known as the “Gates of the ‘Hell “.

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The story goes that in 1971, Soviet geologists were drilling for oil in the desert when they discovered a pocket of natural gas. This caused the earth to collapse, forming three large sinkholes.

To prevent methane from escaping into the atmosphere, geologists are rumored to have set one of them on fire, thinking it would only burn in a few weeks.

But after Canadian explorer George Kourounis undertook the first expedition to probe the crater’s depths in 2013, he discovered that no one knew how this inferno came to be.

According to local Turkmen geologists, the gaping crater, 69 meters wide and 30 meters deep, formed in the 1960s and only lit up in the 1980s.

However, as gas and oil were highly valuable commodities in Turkmenistan under Soviet rule, it appears that any trace of the crater’s creation is now highly classified information.

What is certain is that the home, which emits methane, has become one of the most popular tourist attractions in a country that only welcomes around 6,000 visitors a year.

For most of the past decade, as the sun sets beneath the sea of ​​Karakum sand dunes, wide-eyed travelers from near and far have come to watch the fiery Colosseum light up the desert sky .

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Closed diet

Although this is surprising, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the Turkmenistan 2022 Leader is considering closing this site, although so far there has been no official news indicating that the site has been farm.

In January 2022, on Turkmenistan’s national television channel, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov urged authorities to find a solution to extinguish the fire, citing concerns about the health of people living near the burning crater, as well as lost business opportunities.

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