How can one visit the Door To Hell?
I have stumbled across this photo while surfing the net:
Turkmenistan's Door To Hell in Wikipedia does not say much about the how to visit it, it only says that there were 50,000 visitors in the past five years.
My question: How can I visit it? are there roads to there? can I just show up? or does it have to be with an arranged group and a reservation?
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Can we visit door to hell?
Situated in the middle of Central Asia between Uzbekistan and Iran, lies Central Asia's own hermit Kingdom, Turkmenistan. Home to the infamous Darvaza Gas Crater, or known to most as the Door to Hell, the country receives less than 10,000 tourists annually, equivalent to a mere 30 tourists per day.How do you find the Door to Hell?
The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen media use the name Shining of the Karakum: Turkmen: Garagum \xfdalkymy), also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darvaza, Turkmenistan.Can you visit the gateway to hell?
Coincidentally, The Gates To Hell is now the most famous tourist site in all of Turkmenistan and the most common reason foreign tourists want to visit Turkmenistan. What is this? The Gates of hell, seen from one of the two hills overlooking Darvaza Gas Crater. You can see the yurts in the background.What is inside Door to Hell?
The "Door to Hell" is a natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan, that collapsed into an underground cavern in 1971, becoming a natural gas crater. Geologists set it on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas, and it has been burning continuously since then.The Door To Hell!
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