Places you’d never be allowed to visit in your lifetime !
Here are some places where people’s are not allowed —
Pluto’s Gate
This ‘Gate To Hell’ space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death,” the Greek geographer Strabo wrote. “I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell,” he added.This site was discovered in 1965 by Italian archaeologists in the ancient city of Hierapolis near Pamukkale in modern Turkey’s Denizli Province.
Vatican Secret Archives
It consists of over 600 archival fonds and is stored on over 85 linear kilometres of shelving, some of which is in the Bunker, a two-storey underground vault below the Cortile della Pigna of the Vatican Museums.Inside the Vatican Archives you will find all acts disseminated by the Holy See, state papers, correspondence, account books, and other documents accumulated by the church over the centuries.The oldest document in the archives is on a loose parchment page, indicating a donation to a church in Venice from 809 CE.
Now,the question is who protects the Vatican archives?
Swiss Guards, corps of Swiss soldiers responsible for the safety of the pope. Often called “the world’s smallest army,” they serve as personal escorts to the pontiff and as watchmen for Vatican City and the pontifical villa of Castel Gandolfo.
Lascaux Cave
Lascaux in France is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical local contemporary fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the Upper Paleolithic in the area. They are the combined effort of many generations.The age of the paintings is now usually estimated at around 17,000 years,Because of the outstanding prehistoric art in the cave, Lascaux was inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Places like Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway houses the world’s largest collection of crop diversity and is closed to the public to maintain the integrity of the seed samples.The Seed Vault safeguards duplicates of over 1,214,827 seed samples from almost every country in the world,with room for millions more.It’s purpose is to backup genebank collections to secure the foundation of our future food supply.Individuals cannot deposit seeds into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. If you have seeds that you would like to save, we advise you to contact your national genebank or any other sustainable long term genebank near you and discuss securing your seeds there.
Lake Natron
Lake Natron is a mineral-rich soda lake in northern Tanzania, at the border with Kenya. It’s a breeding ground for hundreds of thousands of lesser flamingos, despite the highly alkaline state of the striking red waters.Lake Natron’s high alkalinity is beautiful, but hazardous. Its pH levels often exceed 10 and can reach a pH of 12, akin to that of ammonia. Therefore, the lake’s waters are caustic. It is capable of causing burns and irritations to human skin and eyes. The chemical properties of the water are known to calcify the bodies of any living thing that died in the lake, turning them to stone before they decompose.
North Sentinel Island
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. The island is a protected area of India.The Sentinelese are an uncontacted tribe and they even kill the visitors.
What do sentinelese eat?
The Sentinelese is a hunting-gathering community. They hunt wild boar, turtle and fish with bows, arrows and spears. They also use single out-rigger canoes for fishing and turtle hunting. Their main food items are wild boars, sea turtles, different kinds of fish and molluscs, fruits, roots and tubers.
