bat2007
01-23-2010, 05:10 PM
Iceland
Steam, bubbles, rocks and ice combine into breathtaking, though, alien-looking landscape. This is Iceland. The island with no trees, few people and the biggest glacier in Europe called Vatnajökull. Yes! This is Europe, not the moon.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-77_3.jpg Iceland by stuckincustoms (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-78_3.jpg Vatnajökull by eir@si (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eirasi/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-79_3.jpg By menesis (http://www.flickr.com/photos/menesis/)
Uzbekistan
The hole filed with burning gas called by locals “the door to hell” is in Uzbekistan but could be as well quiet spot somewhere on Venus.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-80_3.jpg Gate to Hell. Credit: englishrussia (http://englishrussia.com/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-81_3.jpg Burning gas looks like landscapes of Venus. Credit: englishrussia (http://englishrussia.com/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-82_3.png Not to be groundless...Venus
Mauritania
Eye of the Sahara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richat_Structure) called Richat Structure has a diameter of almost 50 kilometers (30 miles). Placed in Mauritania, it is so huge it can be visible from the space. A meteorite impact? An effect of erosion? A symmetrical uplift? Or maybe three in one? Geologists do not really know how the structure was created.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-83_3.jpg The Eye
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-85_3.jpg Credit: Viva NOLA (http://www.flickr.com/photos/halesfamily/)
Socotra Island
A long geological isolation and dry, hot and harsh climate made Socotra Island looks like a grotesque computer animation. Hyperbolic plants, funky-looking trees and pink flowers can be great inspiration for graphic designers. The island is situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen and it was isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-86_3.jpg Trees on Socotra by soqotra (http://www.flickr.com/photos/soqotra2007/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-87_3.jpg By soqotra
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-88_3.jpg Socotra beach by Marco Pavan (http://www.marcopavan.com/)
Spain
An ancient, acidic river in Spain - Rio Tinto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_%28river%29) – is a favourite environment for acid- and metal-loving extremophiles. It does not look like human-friendly and, in fact, it is not, but surely it could quench the Terminator's thirst.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-89_3.jpg Rio Tinto by ganso.org (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ganso-org/)
Arizona
The Antelope Canyon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope_Canyon), located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona looks more like an oil painting than a rock formation. Not without reasons it is the most visited canyon in the southwest America.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-92_3.jpg Picturesque rocks by paphio (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paphio/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-93_3.jpg By smileywhiley05 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamsmiley/)
Yellowstone National Park
The terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, in the USA, are created by heat, water, limestone, and rock fracture. The formation is like a living sculpture that is constantly changing by flowing water and erosion. Well...the trees are very much alive as well.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-94_3.jpg Mammoth Hot Spring by v1ctory 1s m1ne (http://www.flickr.com/photos/v1ctory_1s_m1ne/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-95_3.jpg By v1ctory 1s m1ne
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-96_3.jpg A tree on a walk. By v1ctory 1s m1ne
Planet Earth
The icy forms of glaciers are located around the world. That’s how I imagine Pluto and Neptune, the coldest planets in the solar system.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-97_3.jpg Hubbard Glacier is the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska by bob... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohane/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-98_3.jpg Grey Glacier, Chile by tom holub (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tholub/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-108_3.jpg Le Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina by ricardo.martins (http://www.flickr.com/photos/redneck/)
Denmark
The Mars’ landscapes of Skagen in Denmark do not really fit into the image of the richest and most developed country in the world. The moving dunes and deserted beaches run into the end of Europe where the Baltic Sea clashes with the North Sea.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-99_3.jpg Somewhere in Skagen
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-100_3.jpg Where Baltic meets North Sea by goandgo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/goandgo/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-101_3.jpg Skagen or Mars? by cmdrcord (http://www.flickr.com/photos/21317398@N04/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-102_3.jpg Mars or Skagen? Credit: apod (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/)
Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni), the world's largest salt flat, is located in southwest Bolivia. The salt desert surrounded by cactuses, volcanoes and geysers looks as if it was a remote planet, far from our solar system.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-103_3.jpg So the salt does not come from the supermarket. By calimero74 (http://pl.trekearth.com/members/calimero74/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-104_3.jpg Yellow plants around Salar de Uyuni by Calvin-C (http://www.flickr.com/photos/calinbrasil/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-109_3.jpg
Steam, bubbles, rocks and ice combine into breathtaking, though, alien-looking landscape. This is Iceland. The island with no trees, few people and the biggest glacier in Europe called Vatnajökull. Yes! This is Europe, not the moon.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-77_3.jpg Iceland by stuckincustoms (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-78_3.jpg Vatnajökull by eir@si (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eirasi/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-79_3.jpg By menesis (http://www.flickr.com/photos/menesis/)
Uzbekistan
The hole filed with burning gas called by locals “the door to hell” is in Uzbekistan but could be as well quiet spot somewhere on Venus.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-80_3.jpg Gate to Hell. Credit: englishrussia (http://englishrussia.com/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-81_3.jpg Burning gas looks like landscapes of Venus. Credit: englishrussia (http://englishrussia.com/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-82_3.png Not to be groundless...Venus
Mauritania
Eye of the Sahara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richat_Structure) called Richat Structure has a diameter of almost 50 kilometers (30 miles). Placed in Mauritania, it is so huge it can be visible from the space. A meteorite impact? An effect of erosion? A symmetrical uplift? Or maybe three in one? Geologists do not really know how the structure was created.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-83_3.jpg The Eye
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-85_3.jpg Credit: Viva NOLA (http://www.flickr.com/photos/halesfamily/)
Socotra Island
A long geological isolation and dry, hot and harsh climate made Socotra Island looks like a grotesque computer animation. Hyperbolic plants, funky-looking trees and pink flowers can be great inspiration for graphic designers. The island is situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen and it was isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-86_3.jpg Trees on Socotra by soqotra (http://www.flickr.com/photos/soqotra2007/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-87_3.jpg By soqotra
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-88_3.jpg Socotra beach by Marco Pavan (http://www.marcopavan.com/)
Spain
An ancient, acidic river in Spain - Rio Tinto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_%28river%29) – is a favourite environment for acid- and metal-loving extremophiles. It does not look like human-friendly and, in fact, it is not, but surely it could quench the Terminator's thirst.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-89_3.jpg Rio Tinto by ganso.org (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ganso-org/)
Arizona
The Antelope Canyon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope_Canyon), located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona looks more like an oil painting than a rock formation. Not without reasons it is the most visited canyon in the southwest America.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-92_3.jpg Picturesque rocks by paphio (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paphio/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-93_3.jpg By smileywhiley05 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamsmiley/)
Yellowstone National Park
The terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, in the USA, are created by heat, water, limestone, and rock fracture. The formation is like a living sculpture that is constantly changing by flowing water and erosion. Well...the trees are very much alive as well.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-94_3.jpg Mammoth Hot Spring by v1ctory 1s m1ne (http://www.flickr.com/photos/v1ctory_1s_m1ne/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-95_3.jpg By v1ctory 1s m1ne
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-96_3.jpg A tree on a walk. By v1ctory 1s m1ne
Planet Earth
The icy forms of glaciers are located around the world. That’s how I imagine Pluto and Neptune, the coldest planets in the solar system.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-97_3.jpg Hubbard Glacier is the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska by bob... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohane/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-98_3.jpg Grey Glacier, Chile by tom holub (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tholub/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-108_3.jpg Le Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina by ricardo.martins (http://www.flickr.com/photos/redneck/)
Denmark
The Mars’ landscapes of Skagen in Denmark do not really fit into the image of the richest and most developed country in the world. The moving dunes and deserted beaches run into the end of Europe where the Baltic Sea clashes with the North Sea.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-99_3.jpg Somewhere in Skagen
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-100_3.jpg Where Baltic meets North Sea by goandgo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/goandgo/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-101_3.jpg Skagen or Mars? by cmdrcord (http://www.flickr.com/photos/21317398@N04/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-102_3.jpg Mars or Skagen? Credit: apod (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/)
Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni), the world's largest salt flat, is located in southwest Bolivia. The salt desert surrounded by cactuses, volcanoes and geysers looks as if it was a remote planet, far from our solar system.
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-103_3.jpg So the salt does not come from the supermarket. By calimero74 (http://pl.trekearth.com/members/calimero74/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-104_3.jpg Yellow plants around Salar de Uyuni by Calvin-C (http://www.flickr.com/photos/calinbrasil/)
http://img.opentravel.com/blogs/travel-idea-incubator-109_3.jpg