This sublime scenery also welcomes flocks of flamingos every November, as they come here to breed. Salar de Uyuni, Boliviaĭid you know that Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest salt desert in the world? Ok, another question, name a salt desert. Photographers will have a field day here thanks to the natural lighting as well as the procession of sculpted shapes and forms. Geologists call it a ‘slot canyon’ – a narrow gorge carved by water and mud. Good old Mother Nature has done her best with screensaver favourite Antelope Canyon. Read more: Love Islands: the most romantic island getaways in Europe 5. This naturally-created tunnel in Klevan, Ukraine is in use three times a day when a train passes through to take wood to a nearby factory. Sounds a bit creepy, especially after dark. Legend has it that ‘ask a sincere desire and it will be fulfilled’. Take your ‘loved one’ (or lover, if we’re not beating around the bush) to the Tunnel of Love – one of the most magical and romantic places in the world. But tear yourself away from admiring precipitous architecture to be awestruck by rock formations that make you think “how on earth did those get there”? Resembling giant mushrooms, put there by a creative, slightly psychedelic god, these natural monuments actually owe their appearance to erosion (sorry, boring). The Enchanted City, Cuenca, SpainĬuenca, in Castile-La Mancha in central Spain, is famous for its hanging houses – which definitely make our list of the most magical places on the planet. They are all built with the local stone and vary in shape and size, which contributes to the beauty of this magical place. Dating back to 1500, the Trulli (one of them is a ‘Trullo’) in the town of Alberobello are adorned with symbols that range from the Christian to the bizarre. These cone-topped fairytale dwellings are not populated by Hobbits, but the inhabitants of the Itria Valley in Apulia, southern Italy. Yes, they are real, people do live in them. Like the Dead Sea, it’s so salty that you can float in it. When pigment and salt collide in sunlight, the water goes pink. The lake gets its Lambrusco Blush tone from an algae that produces a red pigment to resist the water’s high salinity level. Unfortunately, up close it’s not quite as pink, nor can you drink it as you do the breaststroke. Lake Retba (in French it’s the more descriptive Lac Rose) has been described as looking like raspberry milkshake.

What the devil? It’s pink? Ok, it looks purple in these pictures. Or just look at the photos! Get inspired: Here are 10 of the most magical places in the world 1. Mysterious, sublime, surreal and simply stunning: 10 of the world’s most magical places you’ve just got to go to.

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