8 natural corners of Europe where water seems a pool

8 natural corners of Europe where water seems a pool
They are often hidden coves or beaches or inaccessible. Or simply streams (or until cracks) barely known. In all these places, one thing in common: clear water, or incredibly crystal (or sea from glaciers or snow).

What follows is a journey into places that invite you to swim (unless the water is too cold), or dive and explore landscapes where nature is unspoiled, where water pools of water formed small mirrored, or stretches of sand and simulating turquoise water pools, but completely natural.

1.Calanque is by definition, a bay or inlet between steep walls of rock, usually limestone, in parts of the Mediterranean coast. This definition is usually applied in countries like France, where you can find hidden paradises in places like the French Riviera, or the island of Corsica. But if the idea was to illustrate in pictures that bring us closer to the idea of ​​natural beauty of these landforms, surely Cove En-Vau amply fulfilled

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En-Vau is a creek between the coast of Marseille and Cassis, an inlet of the Mediterranean between cliffs very deep, which is reached or boat or along a path through the mountains. What remains, is to recreate our eyes, and dream of a summer afternoon like this:

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In fact, between Marseille and Cassis are the coves (Calanques) more spectacular, but the best time to visit is between March and May, when the weather allows warm days. In summer, usually, are usually closed to the public because of the risk of fire in dry season.

2. A beach that looks like a pool in Italy.

There are pools that are designed to simulate being a perfect beach. And no natural beaches that seem a perfect pool. In the Mediterranean there are many, especially in some of the most famous islands. One of them is in a place so named may not: Villasimius suresta is on the coast of Sardinia and its beach is one of the most beautiful in Europe.




3. Natural pools in the Atlantic, Portugal.

On the coast of Porto Moniz, Madeira and the Canary Islands so far, there is a small paradise between rocky headlands that make containment to seawater. In the place they are crystal clear natural pools that are perfect, especially at sunset

4. El río esmeralda de Eslovenia

Se llama río Soča (Isonzo), tiene 140 kilómetros de extensión en el oeste de Eslovenia. Entre paisajes alpinos de montaña se escurre el agua en  color verde esmeralda, tan espectacular que fue elegido como escenografía de películas como  Las Crónicas de Narnia.

5. A turquoise pool in Formentera Island (Illetas)

It is an extensive line of sand in the middle of a turquoise sea. Depending on how the wind blows, the waves lurk on one side of the coast, while the other is likely to resemble a pool. Illetas is one of the most famous beaches of the Balearic Islands, on the island of Formentera, at first glance, a real natural pool:

6. Thiver completely transparent (Verzasca Switzerland)

The Verzasca is a mountain river 30 kilometers. It would be one more if not for its clear waters and turquoise that have given fame. A series of natural pools up to 10 meters deep, cold waters, and often at the mercy of dangerous currents.

7. The crack prístimas Icelandic waters

The crack of Silfra, is also a natural beauty, a geological curiosity: is the only place where the division of the tectonic plates of Eurasia and America is visible above the surface of the oceans. The crack is located within the Thingvellir National Park, and is covered with water, the water is incredibly clear with its origin from ancient glaciers thaw

8. A turquoise river in Navarra (Spain)

River is a short haul and great beauty. Her name means water Urederra and beautiful. Born in Urbasa Andía Natural Park in Navarre, and runs just 19 miles before emptying into a tributary of the Ebro Walking beside him is a beautiful ride

CHILE - ARGENTINA - BOLIVIA Amazing landscapes of Latin America

The city of stairs - Chile

Just as in the American West were born and died towns associated with the gold rush, the case of the town of Sewell, 150 km south of Santiago, could typecast cities in the phenomenon of intermittent, temporary associated with mining activity alternating in different parts of the region. Sewell, was born in 1904 as a base or camp for workers in the mining of copper, as developed and important for the Chilean economy. Sewell was declared since 2006 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, in acknowledgment as a model city built in distant places to solve an economic resource.







The flowering desert of Atacama - Chile


The Atacama desert is considered the world's arid and dry. However, contradicting its aridity, there is a phenomenon that occurs sporadically associated elusive rains that occur every few years in the place: the desert bloom. The natural phenomenon occurs when the rains are more frequent and heavier than normal, completely transforming the barren landscape in a green mantle from the month of July and August to reach its maximum splendor in the month of September.















The phenomenon is possible to appreciate the full extent of the coastline and the hills of the coastal range in the Atacama. Recent years that could see the desert in bloom were in 1987, 1991 and 1997.












The train cemetery in Uyuni - Bolivia


The train arrived in Bolivia in 1889, as unmistakable symbols of progress. But time took care to oxidise all that promising progress linked to the mining industry. The railway complex Uyuni, a small town located in the Central Altiplano Potosi State became over time and even today one of the most incredible train cemetery in the world.

There are approximately 11 layers with thicknesses ranging from 2 to 10 meters. The crust is found on the surface has a thickness of 10 meters. Salar depth is 10 km which is composed of overlapping layers of brine and mud lake.

Salar de Uyuni, which is estimated to contain some 64 billion tons of salt, 25,000 tons extracted annually.

Turquoise Glacier Symphony in Grey - Chile


Any glacier is in itself an impressive natural spectacle. The Grey Glacier in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, seems to combine their hues and tones with the sky, the clouds, the sun and the ice crystals to capture the landscape a true work of art. The result is a beautiful landscape, a symphony of color, blue and turquoise, a visual spectacle that is modified each time:

Glacier Grey is one of the wonders of Torres del Paine National Park, a mass of ice 6 kilometers wide at its front interrupted by a rocky island and ice walls over 30 feet high.

The untamed tongue of the glacier Perito Moreno, Argentina

Located in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, the Perito Moreno glacier is surrounded by mountain scenery, forest and lakes, and is considered one of the natural wonders of the world. The breaking of the Perito Moreno Glacier is an expected phenomenon, especially knowing that you have to wait several years to complete each cycle, which can take up to 16 years. The final break came in March 2006.

A submerged forest in Patagonia - Argentina

Located 30 meters deep in the lake bed Traful, in Patagonia, the submerged forest recreates a fantasy landscape, able to dazzle those who dare to dive among huge trees almost intact, as if you were flying in a landscape film

Tortel: the city that does not touch the ground - Chile



Tortel is a commune of Chile that is part of Region XI. Its geographical location is very special: it is located between two ice fields, in an area of ​​islands, channels and estuaries, between steep mountains and near the mouth of the Baker River, the largest river in Chile. The river can become a torrent because we are in one of the wettest regions of the world can fall about 4000 mm per year. So the city is elevated Tortel proof of any setback to the heavy rains.

PERU AND ECUADOR Amazing landscapes of Latin America

A sea of ​​salt in the mountains - Peru.

In the province of Urubamba, Peru, a mountain is cut by thousands of white terraces overlooking Downhill from the top, and as the light at different times of day, make surprising textures and tones. Are the Maras Maras Located northwest of a small village 40 kilometers from Cusco, the Maras are just one of the amazing sites of Andean South America.


The salt mines are actually about 3,000 wells a few square meters where allowed to evaporate salt water emanating from a subterranean stream in the mountains to solidify salt.








Cotopaxi, a crater in the sky - Ecuador


Cotopaxi is the name of one of the highest active volcanoes in the world, in Ecuador. The crater of the volcano, 5897 meters high, is usually above a blanket of clouds, as if touching the sky, providing a stunning panorama:

According to the source, the word means Gorge fire Cotopaxi. The crater of the volcano has an oval shape and its width varies between 800 and 600 meters, with a depth of 200 meters:

Huacachina, the oasis of Peru

There is an oasis in a sea of ​​sand, but this time, away from the Sahara. The oasis of Huacachina is unique in the Americas, and is located five kilometers west of the city of Ica in Peru.

Amazing landscapes of Latin America Colombia - Brazil

                                                     Amazing landscapes of Latin America

South America, is in every way, the land of the greatest contrasts the planet. We speak not only of the social and the deep inequalities in each country. The landscapes of South America are as varied as stunning: from the largest area of virgin forest green and earth to the eternal glaciers of the Andes, the driest desert in the world, the highest waterfall in the world, everything is mount combines the natural spectacle that seems out of scale even for our planet.

What follows is a humble selection of the best scenery and places of South America.



Palm trees in the fog, Colombia

The Valle del Cocora (Cocora Valley) in Colombia provides an extremely beautiful and unusual landscape: palm trees, for oddly placed in a considerable height, on the slopes of the mountain, are usually shrouded in fog. The images are stunning:





Of course not everything is overwhelming in the Valle de Cocora, at times, mainly around midday, the fog dissipates, to give way to the sun: then we can clearly see some units, capable of reaching up to 60 meters high, and exceptionally, about 80 meters:












The highest waterfall World-Angel Falls Venezuela


In the western part of Canaima National Park, is the Auyantepuy, one of the most famous tepuis. (The tepuis are those mountains ending with huge flat vertical walls.) That tepuy born Angel Falls, with its 979 meters of free fall, the highest in the world.

Sarisariñama green holes - Venezuela

Giant green plateau interrupted cavities and isolated on solid-Sarisariñama Jaua, at 2300 meters high. They are the mysterious depths of Sarisariñama, one of the last regions of the world still almost unexplored: giant green holes of 350 meters in diameter and 300 meters deep, which is only accessible to researchers and scientists preserve a unique ecosystem and still wrapped in unsolved mysteries:

he tepui of Sarisariñama has a distinctive feature that makes it special: its giant green Simas or holes are still undiscovered territory for scientific researchers. The isolation of the depths could be an ark of life, protected for thousands of years by vertical walls hundreds of meters capable of preserving a unique ecosystem, with animal and plant species not found anywhere else in the world . About the origin, is believed to the depths emerged following the collapse of the sandstone strata underground river erosion.

ericoacoara: Dawn Dune - Brazil

Jericoacaora is a small village frozen in time in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Jericoacoara, also known simply as Jeri, is one of the most remote villages of beach, reachable in a 4x4 trip to complete the 6 hour trip from Fortaleza, northeast Brazil. Its not known the asphalt streets, and electricity has reached a few years ago. Jericoacoara is wrapped in a magical and wondrous nature: it is an oasis of greenery and palm trees with white sandy beaches with dunes walled giants:

One of the main attractions in Jericoacoara is to enjoy the sunrise from the dunes. The dune sunrise, just a few meters from the village, is a center of pilgrimage for tourists excited to experience one of the most beautiful ways to see the sunrise in the world:

The only desert that floods - Brazil

It is perhaps one of the most stunning natural wonders of Brazil. In the Brazilian state of Maranhao there is a giant white dunes desert known as Lençois Maranhenses. What makes this place amazing to happen between June and September, when the rains begin to collect water from the slopes of the dunes forming giant teal water ponds.

I lakes, attractive for tourism, are an ideal place to take a dip, and advise visit smeared sunscreen. A place to say, is one that must be known before dying.

The plain of the Pantanal - Brazil

At the conclusion of the rainy season (October to March), the largest dam in the world covered by the temporary overflow of rivers innundan thousands of square miles of the plain of the Pantanal, slowly begins to drain water. The decline produces a cyclical phenomenon which extends from May to July: millions of multicolored fish they enjoyed endless expanses of water, begin to notice the drop of water, and desperately need to revert the beds of many rivers. The phenomenon is known as lufada, and for predators Pantanal, a veritable feast. Alligators, otters, reptiles and hundreds of other bird expecies prepare for one of the biggest food festivals easy nature.