- East of the Caspian Sea in the middle of Karakum desert somewhere in Central Asia hide a secret It is something so surreal and extraordinary in the same time you thing is not real at all
- Here near a small town of Darvaza, Turkmenistan is located “The door to hell” how locals name the strange place
- In fact it is a 50 – 100 meter crater who burn continues for 35 years without any pause
- The Door to Hell, as local residents at the nearby town of Darvaza have dubbed it, is a 70 meter wide crater in Turkmenistan that has been burning continuously for 35 years
- In 1971, geologists drilling for gas deposits uncovered a huge underground cavern, which caused the ground over it to collapse, taking down all their equipment and their camp with it
- During a drilling they found an underground cavern filled with natural gas
- In this moment the ground collapsed, leaving a large gaping hole exposed
- To avoid poisonous gases coming out of the hole, it was decide to fire up and let the gas burn
- Since the cavern was filled poisonous gas, they dared not go down to retrieve their equipment, and to prevent the gas escaping they ignited it, hoping it would burn itself out in a couple of days
- From its burning mouth pours the stench of sulphur, fouling the local air and making anything with nasal cavities flee from the vicinity
