Fire door in Turkmenistan

Fire door in Turkmenistan

250 km from the capital, Ashgabat Aturkmnstanah no hole raging flames day and night without interruption, with a diameter of 100 meters and a depth of 50 meters, and hears her buzz and can be seen from a distance of several hundred meters.

This fiery pit that some dubbed "the gate of hell" after the fall of natural gas excavator while working in the region in 1967 was formed, was interrupted by the fire since then. Fiery pit has become a leisurely attention of foreign tourists and visitors to Turkmenistan.

This hole catch of about 42 years .. Djilogian where he set up a platform for the drilling of this area by mistake and the ceremony began when they discovered they were digging up the cave by a very large inventory of natural gas

Scientists then left to their belief that the flame will rise to only a few days and then come back to work there, but they work Atfajún flame still emitted from the crater to this day .. .. Praise the Creator can of approaching Jufrah Show flame mounts a few miles