Visit the 8 mysterious 'hidden places' on Earth

These are wild lands with rugged terrain that always stimulate the curiosity of adventurers to discover.

Since the 1950s, Dr. Robin Hanbury - Tenison has conducted more than 30 expeditions on every continent. He was the first person to cross the widest point in South America or go with Aboriginal people in the Kalahari desert and travel to Amazon on a seaplane.

The trips helped him better understand the lesser-known lands. Visit 8 hard-to-find hidden places that he went to on his expeditions.

1. Central America region

As a land between North America and South America, countries in Central America can easily be overlooked on the map. However, it has a diverse network of cultures, ancient monuments, tropical mountain forests - very suitable for those who want adventure, adventure.

To start the expedition, you can climb up to visit the volcanic beast that lava is still boiling. Walking through the jungle will lead you to the Mayan pyramids or better understand the lives of monkeys, squirrels, sloths.

Mountains in North Central America

Along with that, visitors will have the opportunity to explore the ruins of tropical forests and wild animals from ancient civilization.

Pyramid and Mayan civilization

Not only are the golden sand beaches, Central American lands also taking you to visit the remote villages of the Mayan region, Kuna and Miskito and learn about the lives of residents, buying handicraft products featuring statue of the ancients.

2. Gunung Mulu National Park, Broneo

Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Borneo bordering Brunei is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park has many caves and karst tectonics (weathering phenomenon).

The rocks are in Gunung Mulu National Park

In the local language, Mulu is synonymous with the cave. Mulu's oldest cave began to form around 5 million years ago, when the tilting motion of the Earth led to the formation of both limestone and sandstone mountains lying close together.

Over a very long period of time, with heavy rains pouring down, fast-flowing stream rivers have created an underground cave system like today.

Deer Cave is one of the world's largest underground tunnels

At Gunung Mulu National Park there are caves up to 100m high, 90m wide, 2km long. These large caves are home to millions of bats and birds flying into the dusk when it is dusk.

In the 1970s, Dr. Robin Hanbury- Tenison joined the Royal Geography Society's largest expedition to the Mulu rainforest for 15 months. They discovered 24,000 new species - both plants and animals - a finding that was of great significance to natural scientists.

3. Amazon natural forest

The Amazon rainforest, is a broad leaf forest in the Amazon basin of South America. The region is located in the territory of nine countries, mainly Brazil (with 60% of rainforest), Peru (13%) and the rest of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Surinam and Guyana of France.

With a total surface area of ​​up to 7 million km ² , Amazon is known as the planet's largest 'lung' when it supplies the Earth with about 20% of oxygen. Not only that, the long Amazon river and the largest flow of water on the planet are paradise of extremely rare vegetation and animals.

It is estimated that Amazon owns more than one-tenth of the world's flora and fauna species, including about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plant species (40,000 species) and nearly 5,000 species of birds and fish, Reptiles and mammals live.

Amazon is the largest biosphere reserve in the world

You must be brave enough to be brave enough to visit the giant blue Anacona python dwelling on the tree, catching an electric eel that can release electricity that is stunned, deadly, or poisoned by frogs. .

4. Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Great Great Barrier Reef stretches 2,600km off Australia's coast, made up of about 3,000 coral reefs, billions of small living creatures and 900 islands.

The existing coral reef structure is now beginning to grow on an old geology about 18,000 years ago. However, the Great Barrier Reef - this world heritage is seriously degraded by global warming. With ocean acidification increasing, along with pollution makes more than half of the The coral at the Great Barrier disappeared.

Great Barrier Reef features coral and colorful fish

According to calculations by scientists, the Great Barrier will disappear in the next 20 years or more. And this may be the first natural ecosystem in the world to be extinct.

5. Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

Located at the easternmost point of Russia, Kamchatka retains the wildness almost completely as it was when it was first formed. Kamchatka has been dubbed the 'land of volcanoes and hot water jets' by the central valley and the Kamchatka River in the middle of large volcanic ranges, of which 29 are still active.

Kamchatka has been conceived for an enchanting natural landscape and ecological diversity

It has valleys with beautiful blooming flower forests, fast flowing rivers, where the Kamchatka brown bear often catch salmon. With the world's richest variety of salmon, Lake Kurilski is recognized as the largest breeding ground for salmon in Eurasia.

Karymsky volcano, Kamchatka

Dr. Robin Hanbury-Tenison said that Kamchatka is an extremely interesting land. Not only is the majestic scenery, mesmerizing people but also the residence of many indigenous tribes extremely unique.

6. Congo rainforest

Congo rainforest is the second largest tropical forest in the world, stretching across 6 countries with 600 species of plants and about 10,000 different kinds of animals. More specifically, 70% of the black continental vegetation belongs to this basin.

Like all tropical forests, many animals often live in the Congo Basin. These include dwarf chimpanzees, hippopotamus, gorillas or Okapi - a hybrid of giraffes and zebras . are animals that live deep in the Congo rainforests.

According to Dr. Robin Hanbury - Tenison, it is because this land has many problems of territorial conflict, so few people come here to explore. But if you have a chance to visit, this tropical forest will not disappoint you.

7. Lake Vostok, Antarctica

With a length of 250km and the widest place reaching 50km, Lake Vostok (meaning Eastern Lake) has become the largest lake among nearly 200 underground lakes beneath the dense plain of Antarctica.

Vostok Lake is actually the most mysterious place on the planet. It is estimated that Vostok lake can be isolated from the outside world in about 15-25 million years ago under a band of 4km thick.

The average depth of Vostok Lake is 344m, with an estimated volume of 5,400km

The environment under the lake Vostok is considered mysterious and has not been recorded worldwide. Researching Lake Vostok will open more research opportunities on Earth life for many millions of years.

Robin Hanbury-Tenison said that if you want to participate in exploring Vostok lake, you need to be prepared because the lake is very cold and dark.

8. Mariana Trench

Located on the bottom of the Pacific Northwest region, to the east of the Mariana Islands, Mariana ditch (or Mariana basin, Mariana basin) is the deepest ocean trench ever discovered. The deepest point of the Mariana Trench is the deepest place in the Earth's crust.

The ditch is the boundary where the two tectonic plates of the Pacific and the Philippines meet. The maximum depth of this trench is 10,971m below sea level. Working in depths as in the Mariana trench, with a pressure of more than 1,000 atmospheres is a challenge for long-time scientists.

High pressure in this place is a disadvantageous environment for most marine life

Robin Hanbury-Tenison said the Mariana Trench was unbelievably cold, covering a whole black. The explorers dived in 1960 and found 20 tons of unexplored food, clams and mysterious creatures living on an isolated hot spring. With new technology, researchers hope to have a better chance of understanding this deep, deep ocean trench.