Vertical extremes and sunken basins
Waterways that break the rules
Stone forests and painted mountains
Island oddities and invisible borders
schopenhauer Match Asia's strangest natural oddities to discover how stone forests and painted mountains formed.
Avatar mountain: The Southern Sky Column in the Tianzi Mountains was officially renamed 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain' in 2010 to honor its cinematic fame.
An area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns. The towering limestone pillars of Yunnan's Shilin were shaped over some 270 million years of geologic erosion.
What type of rock primarily makes up the unique mounds of the Chocolate Hills in the Philippines?
Approximately how many symmetrical hills make up the Chocolate Hills landscape on Bohol Island?
How tall do the quartz sandstone pillars of the Tianzi Mountains rise in Hunan, China?
What geological process created the vibrant colors of the Zhangye Danxia landforms?
In which Chinese province can visitors walk through the 270-million-year-old Shilin Stone Forest?
Which movie's floating mountains were inspired by the towering spires of the Tianzi Mountains?