Most Alien looking place on Earth

[Kfeeras]

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

[newman]

cool...
good find.

[Crane]

Oh, my god...that is the most insanely inspiring thing i have ever seen...i wanna live there! imagine the views! drool!!

EDIT!

While we're on the subject of awesomeness and the same site...

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/gigantic-city-structures-of-paolo.html

Orgasm! picture at bottom


btw how do i put text with the right picture? i can only get text at the top then pictures below in a group...

[Ed Savage]

Anyone else thinking morrowind?

[Farsh]

^I did for a moment as well. Unbelievable! I have to see it for myself one day.

[P]

just WOW, I even watched some videos on youtube about Socotra Island, amazing!

[Carnifex]

i so want to go on holiday there now.

[S.C. Watson]

that is pretty awesome.

[Moai]

*right click save*...*right click save*...*right click save*...*right click save*...etc.
What an amazing place!

[Black Spot]

I loved the architecture in Yemen when I was there; gingerbread houses with icing and coloured glass windows. Some of those buildings are a couple of thousand years old and are built by masons hand chipping granite blocks into perfect blocks that fit so tightly together they didn’t need any cement.

Those plants are something else.

[Serpian]

.....

woah...

[Kfeeras]

Well "Spore" is nothing compared to this, I guess.

[Psychotime]

There goes my dream home.

[chriskot]

That is so awesome. I often wonder why such awesome places as these aren't better known. Another (far more barren) alien landscape that I really like is the area around Ethiopia's Dallol volcano. This pic is from National Geographic a few issues back:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/dallol-minerals-974674-lw.jpg

Sulfur mines are also pretty strange, I think:
http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/05/sulfur-mine-indonesia-ijen-volcano.html

And of course everybody loves deep sea hydrothermal vents and the strange beasts that they attract (although I wish I could find some better pictures of those).

[daestwen]

When I went to italy for a month we stayed in this little town in tuscany called "pittigliano", and here's what it looked like:

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it just reminded me, that's all, of the cliffs-to-buildings.