I recently came across some footage about our trip through Central Asia a few years ago and made a short clip .
A few years ago we were crossing Turkmenistan on our way to Uzbekistan and we stopped at a very eerie place not far from the Border.
The Darwaza gas crater is one of the weirdest sights in Central Asia, and perhaps in the entire world. It is a burning hole in the Turkmen Karakum desert with a width of 60 meters and a depth of 20 meters. Turkmen call it the ‘Door to Hell’, because the flames and the boiling mud seem to mark the entrance to hell. This flaming pit is the result of a drilling accident in 1971. The ground underneath a drilling tower collapsed and an underground gas cavern was exposed. To avoid the release of toxic methane gas, local geologists decided to burn off and neutralize poisonous gas. At first, they thought the fire would be out in a few weeks, but more than fifty years later the crater is still burning. When will it stop? No one knows.
We had the place to our selves.
Unfortunately I did not us a drone, as not not in my possession at that time , but I used a soni hd camera.
hope you like it
