Traffic Jam Stuck in Belgium Forest For 70 Years

Chatillion is a small village in Belgium, actually to be home of vintage abandoned and beautiful rusty cars graveyard. This “Car Graveyard” has since been cleaned up, but photographer Theo van Vliet had the chance to explore the forest and photograph the cars beforehand.

These frightening apocalyptic photos are not a view of “Walking Dead”, they were actually taken at one of the biggest car cemeteries in the world the Chatillion Car Graveyard, Belgium. According to an urban legend these cars were left behind by US soldiers after World War II, who could not ship them back to the United States due to the high cost of having all those cars shipped was way too expensive, so they decided to hide them in a forest until they could come back and save them.

Finally the ranking officers decided to leave all the cars in Belgium and these cars were driven up a hill, one by one, nicely parked and somehow hidden from the outside world. Once back home in the US, the soldiers who wanted to retrieve their car had to take personal responsibility for all costs of the shipping but unfortunately not a single car was retrieved.

But on the other side, the local inhabitants totally deny the facts and say it is simply an old car dump of vehicles made after the WWII. At one point there were four car graveyards in Chatillion with as many as 500 retro vehicles. Unluckily, most of the cars were stolen by car collectors or removed by the locals and due to environmental issues the whole graveyards was cleared in 2010.

Source: Charismatic Planet 

Hitachi Seaside Park A Floral Paradise in Japan

Perhaps you believe it or not, these fairy tale-like fields are not digital photographs of our most colorful dreams, they’re real images taken at a seaside park located in Hitashi, Japan. The Hitashi Seaside Park covers an area of 190 hectares and has a diversity of flowers blooming through the year. Hitachi Seaside Park boasts it’s a wide variety of seasonal flower gardens like narcissus and tulip in spring, Nemophila are little blue flowers and blooms in early summer, zinnia in summer and kochia and cosmos in autumn. The most renowned ones, Nemophila, thrive and bloom in the spring, mainly in April, creating a really mesmeric view at the Hitashi Seaside Park of 4.5 million blossoms covering the fields. Nemophilia is derived from its Greek words-nemos means small forest and phileo means love, which means baby blue eyes.

The Hitashi Seaside Park has become widely famous for baby-blue-eyes, enticing a lot of tourists. These photographers have to Photoshop them out of the fields, as it is difficult to take a person-free landscape photo. We collected some of their greatest shots for you to drool over. The park includes cycling trails and a small amusement park with a Ferris wheel. The hill’s pathways will take you to the top of hill from where you can view the scenic sight of the Pacific Ocean and the seaside park is enjoyed which is really a great pastime for the tourists. As many people call, it is just a multi colored hill during autumn which just looks like a beautiful rainbow. The best way to see the sights is on foot as it allows you to view the flowers every angle of its beauty and we can be mesmerized. If you’re planning on visiting Japan next spring, don’t forget to include this park in your must-see list!

To enhance the attractions of park, there is an amusement park which named is Pleasure Garden, containing of several rides and shows inside the park which is a great place to see and there’re also cycling courses here. The bicycles are rented according to the charges given there which are really worth it. Theirs is also a play area is available for children’s for no charge at all but rides have some special charges. The seaside train is the most loving ride where you can hop and drop off the ride instantly which gives a complete glimpse of the park in 40 minutes. For the sake of visitors, theirs is also hotels available there, to spend with all of the cost prices affordable to every category of people where some of the luxurious hotel bookings can be made via online.

 Source: Charismatic Planet

Cono de Arita in Argentina

Near the south border of Salar de Arizaro, the 6th largest salt flat on earth and the 2nd largest in Argentina, 70 kilometers from the village of Tolar Grande, lies a strange volcanic pyramid. An almost faultless cone, it rises suddenly in the middle of the salt pan. This is Cono de Arita and it looms splendidly 122 meters above the Salar. Its name comes from the Aymara language where Arita means “Sharp”. In the early 20th century it was supposed that such a perfect cone could only have been built by man. However Cono de Arita is natural and assumed to be a minor volcano which lacked strength to burst through the curst and so never threw lava or developed a crater. The entire thing around the cone is black salt brought to the surface by ancient magma flows underground. As per archaeological remains found in the cone, the place was a ceremonial center earlier to the arrival of the Incas.

“Badab-e Surt” A Natural Wonder Contains Step Terraced Made of Travertine

There’s a natural wonder in Iran, called Badab-e Surt situated in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran, 95 KM south of the city of Sari. The Iranian site comprises of wide range of stepped terraces made of travertine, a sedimentary rock shaped more than thousands of years by deposition of carbonate minerals dissolved in water flowing from mineral hot springs. The beautiful Badab-e Surt's terraces are made happed due to two distinctive mineral springs with dissimilar natural characteristics, situated at 1,840 meters above sea level. Badab-e-Surt is considered one of the most incredible sights in this region that attracts millions of Iranian and international tourists to its eye-catching nature scenery and fine weather.

Therefore; the first spring encompasses very salty water that gathers in a small natural pool, which water is believed to have medicinal properties, particularly as a cure for rheumatism and certain types of skin diseases and skin conditions. The 2^nd spring has a sour taste and is predominately orange. Stepped travertine terraces are present on numerous places on earth.

But the other examples include the Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, the White Water Terraces and Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area both in China, US & New Zealand, but the most renowned of them all is “Pamukkale in Turkey which is tourism hub”. Nevertheless, different the aforementioned hot spring terraces, which are mostly shades of whites and blues, the travertine terraces of Badab-e Surt are bright orange and red. This is due to the presence of large amounts of iron oxide sediments.

The Orost village and Badab-e-Surt Spring are easily accessible via Semnan with paved way and vehicles being capable of utilizing the dirt roads leading up to the spring. The best time to visit this place is during either sunrise or sunset when the sun’s orange reflection blends in perfectly with the colored spring. The Badab Soort Spring has been registered as a national heritage site. Due to its natural and artificial landmarks in Iran, the Badab-e-Surt Spring was in danger of continuing erosion and eventual demise. But many thanks to the efforts of Lavasan’s Hiking Committee, and Nader Zarrabian, who’re working and has been done their job in order to restore the natural atmosphere of the Spring. However; countless people visit Mazandaran to shed their exhaustion of city life relaxing on the beaches of the Caspian Sea or staying in the jungle cottages, off the track sites such as Badab–e-Surt springs can also create a lovely memory in the minds of nature lovers who visit northern Iran.

 Source: Charismatic Planet