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If the Earth did not have a protective layer of the atmosphere and water space (this is two-thirds of the entire surface of the planet), then life would not appear on our planet. The earth would be empty, rocky, like our satellite the Moon - only craters from the impact of meteorites. But the Earth is alive, from space it looks very attractive. In 1891, an amazingly shaped giant crater was discovered in the desert US state of Arizona, which raised many questions among scientists: this is either the remains of an extinct volcano, or ... a blow from a spacecraft by aliens looking for a new home. But why not a funnel from a meteorite, an inquisitive reader will ask. Could meteorites of this size reach the Earth, and where are its fused remnants?

This unusual attraction in the state of Arizona is visited with interest by scientists and tourists. They see a strange formation on the surface of the Earth, which for a long time has also been called the Devil's Canyon or Berringer's Crater, after the name of its explorer. The crater is located 30 km from the town of Winslow and 56 km from the city of Flagstaff. It can be seen from afar - a mountainous cone rises above the horizon. The closer to it, the more distinct it becomes. Its height from the ground level reaches 50 m. Having climbed the ridge, you see in front of you a giant bowl, the diameter of which is 1200 m, and the depth is 180 m. The spectacle is enchanting and exciting. It seems that you are on an uninhabited planet. Scientists note the great similarity of the crater to the lunar surface.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, everyone believed that this was the crater of an extinct volcano. There were too many coincidences. But local Indians, who found various metal debris, claimed that many, many years ago, aliens who had flown in from the depths of the heavens set up their camp in the desert, and then flew away. At the site of their starship, a large round crater remained. Probably, it was the gods from space who visited the Earth, the aborigines were sure.

"PLATES" OVER THE CANYON

The local Indians were echoed by some tourists who came. They said that sometimes at night the sky above the canyon glows in a special way and gets brighter every hour. There were those who saw the descent of strange devices in the form of saucers, now called UFOs (unidentified flying objects). In addition, there is a version that the crater emits geomagnetic waves and thus communicates with arriving aliens.

These various fantastic and frightening stories have given the canyon its popular name - Devil's Canyon. It is clear that the majority of scientists treated and treats these stories with irony and great skepticism. Some of them have their own argument: the Arizona crater resembles the crater of the famous Italian volcano Vesuvius, which is located near Naples. Scientists believe that this similarity determines their uniformity and commonality. But is it really so?

VOLCANIC CRATER

The word "crater" is Greek, translated as "bowl". Such craters are formed during volcanic eruptions and can reach several kilometers in diameter. At the bottom of the crater, there is usually one vent, less often several, through which lava and other volcanic products rising from the magma chamber come to the surface.

At the first glance at the Arizona crater, one really thinks that these are the remains of an extinct volcano. Perhaps in a few million years, and maybe millennia, the crater of the currently active Vesuvius will descend and turn into a copy of the Arizona one. True, it depends on the underground forces that operate under it. There are craters on Earth much larger than Arizona. So, in Antarctica on Wilkes Island in 1962, a meteorite crater with a diameter of 241 km and a depth of 800 m was discovered.

In Canada, on the coast of the Hudson Bay, there is a crater with a diameter of 443 km, but the Arizona crater is special, it is the best preserved, amenable to study, and is loved by filmmakers - it is a wonderful natural object for filming adventure and science fiction films.

STUDY OF ARIZON CRATER

Who left a giant imprint in Arizona: a volcano, aliens or meteorites?

This question haunted many American scientists for many years. In numerous disputes, the truth was never born. Serious and large-scale research was required, for which there was no money. The greatest contribution to the study of the Arizona crater was made by the American mining engineer and explorer from Philadelphia Daniel Moreau Berringer. He was very interested in the mystery of the appearance of such a giant crater in the desert.

Berringer immediately questioned the idea of ​​its volcanic origin. In the state of Arizona, there are no conditions for the appearance of volcanoes - everything is calm underground, no magma threatens to leak out. He drilled in several places and found no evidence of volcanic rocks. But Berringer's theory, advanced in 1902, had yet to be proven.

The researcher bought a small piece of land at the bottom of the Arizona crater and began deep drilling there. He hired workers, brought in equipment. The survey was carried out in difficult conditions: heat, lack of water, remoteness from urban infrastructure. The first samples of rocks showed that there are no elements of volcanic origin in it.

The drilling continued. And suddenly, at a depth of 420 m, the drill stopped, as if it ran into an insurmountable obstacle. What happened? A drill was raised to the surface, its incisors were completely worn off. At first glance, it became clear that the drill rested against the ferrous material. When they checked in the laboratory samples of the material from the borax, they established: these are iron-nickel particles. A meteorite, then? It is meteorites that contain iron and nickel. What is its volume underground? If you start the industrial development of nickel in the open way, you can get rich.

EPILOGUE OF METEORITE THEORY

But further efforts by Barringer did not lead to anything - no one willing to start developing the "meteorite deposit" was found. Drilling has stopped. The bankrupt Berringer in 1909 gave the data of his research to the US Academy of Sciences, which finally officially recognized that the Arizona crater was formed as a result of the fall of a celestial body.

And many years later, already in the era of computer diagnostics at the end of the 20th century, Berringer's version was fully confirmed. Scientists have determined that about 50 thousand years ago, a celestial body burst into the Earth's atmosphere, most likely an iron-nickel meteorite measuring 30-40 m. The estimated mass is 70,000 tons, although some scientists believed that its weight could reach 2 million tons. The speed of movement when approaching the Earth was equal to 70 thousand km per hour. The vast majority of the meteorite burned up in the atmosphere. When hitting the ground, the meteorite partially evaporated, partially split. Pieces from several hundred grams to 500 kg were scattered for many kilometers around. The force of the strike was about 40 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans on Herosima in 1945. A giant crater formed - a crater.

Fragments of the meteorite were found by the Indians at a distance of up to 10 km from the crater. The same fragments were found in the ground at a depth of 420 m by Berringer while drilling.

The formed funnel is practically the only place on Earth that resembles a lunar landscape. It is no coincidence that the Americans trained astronauts in this crater before flying to the moon in 1969, eliminating the shortcomings of spacesuits. Thus, Devil's Canyon played a role in the exploration of the moon. Now it is a place of pilgrimage for tourists from all over the world.

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You don't have to travel to distant Arizona to see the Grand Canyon! There is the same spectacular geological object in Ukraine - we mean the Aktovsky canyon. Of course, our canyon is much smaller than its North American counterpart, but its beauty is in no way inferior to it.

Excursions to the Aktovsky canyon from Kiev, Dnipro, Odessa, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Kharkov and other cities are carried out by prior arrangement by phone 050 515-88-86
096 095-99-69

Trips from Kherson take place according to Saturdays, holidays and individual orders.

Description

Having got out to the Aktovsky canyon, you will remember your rest here for a long time - the landscapes are fantastic! The flat endless steppe is crossed by a deep river valley with almost steep slopes and a narrow bottom, between the stone arches of the canyon a river with the ominous name of the Dead River meanders. The height of the rocks reaches 40-50 meters - this is about a 15-20-storey building.

The history of the appearance of the Aktovsky canyon

The Nikolaev Canyon is one of the oldest land areas in Europe, formed from volcanic rock (about 60 million years ago, the sea splashed here). The valley arose due to the break of a large granite shield - the age of the rock is more than four billion years. In addition to the Grand Canyon in America, these places are called the Small Crimea - the granite-basalt rocks really resemble the Crimean ones. Many also note the similarity of the relief with the canyon in Buki.

At the entrance to the Vienna UN International Center, there are boulders symbolizing the world's continents. The stone that symbolizes Europe was brought to the capital of Austria from the Nikolaev gorges!

Watch the Devil's Canyon from above in this video:

Features of the natural area

Aktovsky canyon, the photo of which you see, is a unique phenomenon, absolutely atypical for the hot Ukrainian steppes. It is a deep river valley - the only complex of rocks and granite blocks of all sizes in Europe. It is part of the Buzhsky Gard National Park and is regularly ranked among the country's natural wonders.

However, the Aktovsky canyon near Nikolaev is of interest not only for fans of geology and beautiful nature, but also for followers of esoteric teachings. It is believed that these places, as well as, were an important sacred center of Scythia - since ancient times, among the majestic rocks, they prayed to the gods and performed important rituals.

Vegetation

The climatic conditions here are atypical - it happens that even in winter, violets bloom on the slopes and cows graze! In total, more than 900 plant species are found on the territory of the canyon (which is almost two and a half hundred hectares) (about 30 are listed in the Red Book).

Thickets of calamus on the slopes, rare species of ferns, wild rose hips, junipers, mosses and lichens - all this diversity of flora can be seen upon arriving in the Aktovsky canyon, excursions include walks in protected areas.

Not far from the place where the Arbuzinka river flows into the Mertvovod river, there is a reserved tract Trikratsky forest (consists of the tracts of Vasilyeva apiary and Labyrinth).

Man-made Trikratsky forest

As well, this is not a natural phenomenon - at the beginning of the 19th century, the forest was planted by Count Viktor Skarzhinsky, a Kherson landowner, a provincial leader of the nobility and a famous practitioner of steppe afforestation. By the way, in the village of Trikraty, the estate of the Skarzhinsky family is still preserved - an atmospheric two-story building, built in the 18th century.

Having abandoned his military career, Skarzhinsky decided to arrange a dendrological park in the middle of the Nikolaev steppes - he brought more than 200 varieties of fruit trees, seedlings of oaks and poplars, thuja and tulip trees, mimosa and cedar. Fountains and paths were laid in the park - thanks to the intricate grid of alleys, part of the Trikratsky forest was named the Labyrinth.

Years passed, and the park turned into a real wild forest - here you can meet bison, deer, pheasants and other representatives of forest fauna. For example, gray herons nest in Myronova Grove - this is the only place of this kind on the map of the Nikolaev region. And in the Trikratsky forest there is a whole grove of ancient oaks - their age has long passed over a hundred!

In fact, Aktovsky canyon is a whole complex of canyons of different sizes. Beautiful photo-landscapes can be taken in the Arbuzinsky or Small Aktovoy canyon - its granite-basalt rocks were formed billions of years ago.

Basalt Rock Labyrinths

The Arbuzinka River flows along the bottom of a kilometer-long gorge, between huge boulders. On its banks you can find many granite outcrops - in Soviet times, granite quarries functioned in one of the most beautiful places in the Nikolaev region. Today they are all abandoned, one of them is known under the name "Black Lake" - this is the main attraction of the village of Migia in the Nikolaev region.

Deadvod River

The mystical river Mertvovod (a tributary of the Southern Bug) flows along the bottom of the Aktovsky gorge.

Once upon a time in antiquity, along the course of this river, the Scythians fused the bodies of their dead leaders - perhaps the name Dead-Man came to us from those times. According to another version, the "dead" water became during the Tatar raids - allegedly local residents (in some retellings, Zaporozhye Cossacks) poured a poisonous broth into the river to poison the bassurman who camped nearby. However, some researchers associate this name of the river with a high content of hydrogen sulfide in its waters and a corresponding smell.

Weather in Aktovsky canyon

On the map of Ukraine, Aktovsky canyon is located at the very bottom, in the south - among the steppes drenched in the sun. You can come here at any time of the year:

• in winter Deadman freezes, and the overhanging rocks are covered with frost - why not the decoration for the next season of "Game of Thrones"?
• in spring, mountain tulips bloom here - you can see the same ones only in southern Siberia and on the plains of Kazakhstan.
• in summer, the wind brings dizzying aromas of fragrant steppe herbs, and river lagoons beckon to swim. And it is also in the summer that you can see and experience "frying pans" - giant flat stones that are so heated in direct sunlight that it is quite possible to fry eggs on them.
• In autumn, the Trikratsky forest and Aktovsky canyon are painted in all shades of yellow and red - this is the most suitable time for leisurely picnics and beautiful photos of nature.

The average summer temperature in the local area is + 25C °, the average winter temperature is -1 ° C. However, even if the sun hides during your visit, nature will not disappoint - cloudy weather gives the rocks a special, a little ominous charm. The video about Aktovsky canyon vividly illustrates this:

Aktovsky canyon: how to get from Kherson?

On the map of Ukraine, the Aktovsky canyon is indicated in the Voznesensky district of the Nikolaev region, near the settlement of Trikraty. The way from Kherson takes about three hours (180 km), but time flies by - very interesting views outside the window!

By car

Your main landmark is the village of Aktovo in the Nikolaev region (highways M14, P06). Coordinates - 47.72430 31.48206. We do not recommend driving a sedan with a ground clearance of less than 15 cm. The local landscape does not allow the confident use of a low-slung car. An excursion to the Aktovsky Canyon will not be complete without proper accompaniment and an expert guide.

By bus

By bus, you first need to get to the city of Voznesensk, where you change to a minibus to Trikraty - it will take you to the village. 10 minutes and you are there. It is difficult for the most difficult to find all 3 canyons that are available on the Devil's Canyon tour. The distance between the gorges reaches several kilometers.

Tour program

The journey is very busy and takes a whole day. During this time, you will have time:

• bypass all three legendary canyons - Arbuzinsky, Maly Aktovsky and Bolshoi Aktovsky;
• descend to the bottom of Devil's Canyon;
• arrange a photo session against the backdrop of spectacular natural scenery;
• relax in the Trikratsky forest;
• visit 4 secret locations, not known to every guide!

Excursions from Kherson to Aktovsky canyon: an approximate plan

7:00	The meeting point is (Suvorov st. 8). We leave from Kherson to Aktovsky canyon by bus.
10:00	Stop near the Skarzhinsky estate. WC.
10:20	Arrival to the Arbuzinsky Canyon. A walking tour about the formation of rocks, the Arbuzinka river, a story about local legends.
12:00	Moving to the "Kupalskaya Polyana" (small canyon), free time and the opportunity to have a snack. You can order a delicious panini or granola with you on the road from our administrators.
13:30	Transfer to the big Aktovsky canyon. Visit to several locations in the Devil's Canyon and a walking tour. Free time to walk in the canyon, collect water from the spring or do some meditation in a stunning location. Time for photos, videos and selfies in the Ukrainian Grand Canyon.
16:30	Visit to the Trikratsky forest. Herbal tea in Kherson style and preparation for the road back.
17:00	Departure to Kherson.
20:00	Return to Kherson on Suvorov 8 or to the agreed place.
	* The itinerary and travel time may vary depending on weather conditions and personal agreements with guests.

Ideal for canyon travel. The tour is carried out by our partners. An experienced and charismatic guide will accompany you.

Prepare for your trip in advance! Here is a rough list of things you will definitely need on the road:

• comfortable clothes and shoes;
• headdress;
• swimsuit or swimming trunks (in the warm season);
• habitual snacking;
• drinking water supply.

We accept applications from Kherson, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and any other cities of Ukraine - book an excursion right now! The cost of a trip from Kherson is 650 hryvnias. The tour price includes:

• entry tickets;
• tea made from medicinal steppe herbs;
• insurance;
• excursion program.

Aktovsky canyon from Odessa

The cost of a trip to Aktovsky canyon is 985 hryvnia. The price includes the following services:

• transfer to the canyon and back;
• excursions according to the program and entrance fees;
• Tasty dinner;
• escort on the route;
• insurance.

An excursion to the Aktovsky canyon from Odessa follows the following program:

06:45	Gathering the group at st. Bunin 15, corner of st. Pushkinskaya (near the regional Odessa Philharmonic). We leave at 07:00.
10:00	Arrival to the village of Trikhata. We go with a guide on an excursion to the Arbuzinsky Canyon, listen to the guide's story about legends and stories. Excursion along the Aktovsky canyon.
14:00	We visit the man-made forest of Count Skarzhinsky and get acquainted with the flora and fauna.
14:30	Dinner time. Approximate menu: pork kebab, baked potatoes, vegetables, drinks.
15:30	Excursion to the tract "Labyrinth" in the Trikratsky forest.
17:00	Departure to Odessa.
21:00	Arrival in the city.
	* Itinerary and travel time may vary due to weather conditions and time of year.

The collection of tourist groups for excursions to the Aktovsky canyon from Odessa is scheduled for April.

Travel Schedule

Standard trips operate on Saturdays from early April to November. Select the desired date on the calendar and place your order online in 3 minutes.

An individual excursion can be ordered by calling 050 515-88-86.

Excursion to Aktovsky canyon: feedback from participants

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Arizona crater

Arizona Crater(Barringer's Crater, Devil's Canyon) is a large meteorite crater (astroblema) in Arizona, USA, 30 km west of Winslow and 56 km from Flagstaff (Interstate 40, exit 233). It is a giant earthen bowl with a diameter of 1200 meters and a depth of 180 meters.

The origin of the crater

The crater appeared about 50 thousand years ago after the fall of a 50-meter meteorite weighing 300 thousand tons and flying at a speed of 45-60 thousand km / h. The explosion from the fall was three times more powerful than the explosion of the Tunguska meteorite and was similar in power to the explosion of 20 million tons of TNT or 1000 atomic bombs similar to those dropped on Hiroshima. Fragments of meteoric nickel iron have been found in and around the Arizona Crater.

History of discovery and research

The location of the crater was known to the local Indians for a long time, who used metal fragments of the meteorite for their own purposes. Local tribes have a huge number of legends and traditions associated with this sacred place. Scientists only became aware of the existence of the crater since a year.

View of the crater from space

Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was believed that this crater was of volcanic origin, and only in 1902, a mining engineer from Philadelphia, Daniel Moreau Barringer, hypothesized that this giant crater was formed as a result of a meteorite impact. He acquired a piece of land where the crater is located, and quickly began drilling its bottom, because he was convinced that he would find the meteorite itself. Barringer spent 26 years of his life looking for a meteorite and convincing others that his crater was of extraterrestrial - meteorite origin.

The drilling turned out to be useless, and it could not be otherwise. The estimates of scientists, which may have caused Barringer's fatal heart attack, showed that the meteorite should have almost completely evaporated in the atmosphere and upon collision with the Earth. During his lifetime, Barringer failed to unequivocally prove to the scientific community and the nature of the origin of the crater.

His merits were not recognized until thirty years later, when convincing evidence that a crater in Arizona was caused by a meteorite impact was presented by Eugene Shoemaker, one of the world's foremost comet and meteorite specialists.

Astronaut training in the crater

The Arizona crater was recognized as the only place on Earth that most closely resembles the lunar landscape, and it was there, under the leadership of Shoemaker, that all astronauts who were to go on a flight to the moon passed part of the training. And it was in this crater that the shortcomings of the spacesuits in which the first earthlings were to leave their mark on the moon were revealed and eliminated.

Tourism

Crater bottom

It is impossible not to mention the museum, which stands literally on the edge of the crater and stores photographs of all the "lunar" astronauts in full space attire. If you do not know that these pictures were taken literally two steps from where you are standing, then you can believe that they are of lunar origin. The Arizona Crater is one of the landmarks of the state of Arizona. Many tourists visit it every day. To attract tourists, locals regularly report numerous observations of this place of air glow and UFO hovering, as well as mysterious geomagnetic anomalies inside the crater.

Selling the meteorites found in this crater (or impersonating them) is thriving and quite a lucrative business. The cost of such meteorites in online stores is on average $ 1 for each gram of weight.

Comparison with other Earth meteorite craters

The meteorite crater in Arizona, often named after its discoverer Barringer Crater, is by no means the largest on Earth. In the Antarctic on Wilkes Land, a meteorite crater with a diameter of 241 kilometers and a depth of 800 meters was discovered under a kilometer thick ice per year. In Canada, on the coast of the Hudson Bay, there is a crater with a diameter of 443 kilometers. However, unlike the largest, whose diameter is measured in hundreds of kilometers, the Arizona crater is the only one that has preserved its almost pristine appearance. As reported in the museum's official booklet, "although there are larger impact traces on Earth, the meteorite origin of this crater was the first to be proven and it preserved its original appearance best of all."

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This is one of the most beautiful and unusual places in Ukraine where I have been. Aktovsky canyon is often called "Devil's Valley". The small river Mertvovod meanders between the high rocks. According to legend, the ancient Scythians sent their kings down the river on the last journey. The cliffs around it rise 50 meters. How and why such a place arose among the flat steppe is completely incomprehensible. This is a miniature American Grand Canyon. The landscapes here are incredibly beautiful, especially at dawn - with the first rays of the sun, the rocks turn peach-pink. Welcome to Devil's Valley.

Autumn should be met where it is especially beautiful. Last year it was such a place for us, now it is Aktovsky canyon. We had been going there for a long time and finally escaped, and even with tents, so we managed to shoot at dawn. Getting here is very difficult, but worth it. This is one of the most beautiful and unusual places in Ukraine where I have been. At the end of the post there is a map and a detailed description of the best way to get there. In the meantime, we enjoy the beauty.

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To begin with, according to tradition, the history of the place in two paragraphs. It is one of the oldest land areas in Eurasia, formed from volcanic rocks. The sea here dried up 60 million years ago. But that was too long ago, we are more interested in the present. Aktovsky canyon is located in the valley of the Mertvovod river. This is an influx. The length of the entire canyon is about five kilometers. The height of the rocks is up to 50 meters. In some places, sheer stone walls are formed. Huge boulders lie on the banks.

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Like the Aktovsky Canyon and the entire bed of the Mertvovod River, it is included in the Bugsky Gard National Park. This place is called "Devil's Valley" and "Small Crimea" - granite-basalt rocks are very similar to the Crimean ones.

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Rocks in the very village of Aktovo. This is the most popular section of the canyon. But, by the way, not the most beautiful one. It will be better further)

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For the first time I saw how tourist buses travel across an open field. It is beautiful here, but there are a lot of people. Therefore, we go further.

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The place is very popular, but it is incredibly quiet and cozy here. Tourists rarely reach the canyon itself, limiting themselves only to the rocks in the very village of Aktovo. It is difficult to drive further, only photographers, climbers and ecotourism lovers wander into the valley itself. It means that we have a road there.

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Dawn. The sun rises due to the landing opposite the canyon, so in the morning the rocks are pink.

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Many rituals of the ancient tribes were performed in these places. Most of the Scythian kings are buried in the valley. According to legend, the rulers were sent on their last journey along the stream of the Dead Man. Hence such a gloomy name. Herodotus calls this river Exampey, which literally means "dead water".

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There is another legend - during one of the Tatar raids, local residents cooked a poisonous broth and poured it into the river upstream of the Tatars' camp. The enemies drank some water and died. According to another version, the river got its name after the terrible battle of the Zaporozhye Cossacks with the Turks, after which the river water was not visible because of the bodies of the dead.

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As for me, it is from this point that the best view of the canyon and the valley of the Mertvovod River opens up.

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The canyon is considered the only one in Europe, which in terms of geological and landscape indicators exactly repeats the famous canyons of North America. A kind of Grand Canyon in miniature.

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The sun has risen and the rocks no longer seem peachy.

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I can't believe it, but a hundred years ago the river was navigable. The Soviet government decided to equip collective farms here - in many places the channel was blocked off with dams, the banks were turned into fields. The course of the river slowed down, the bottom was silted up, the channel was overgrown with reeds. They say that the layer of silt and mud in some places reaches five meters, in some places the river has turned into a swamp that you can wade. But in some places there are still small murmuring cascades and even waterfalls.

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The best place to camp. Convenient descent to the water, there is a place for a fire and tents. And around - beauty.

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Locals come here to fish.

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Local flora. They say that several hundred species of different plants grow here. Many of them are listed in the Red Book. I don't know what it is, but it looks pretty.

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Finally - two panoramas. Pictures are clickable.
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How to get to Aktovsky canyon:
The road is not for the faint of heart. From Odessa it is best to go through Nikolaev, and further along the Southern Bug, through Novaya Odessa and Voznesensk. At the exit from Voznesensk, in front of the church, turn to the right. The road to the village of Trikraty is quite bearable. In the village itself there is a wonderful landmark - an old road paved with cobblestones, you go there. In about 10 minutes the Arbuzinsky Canyon will appear on the right. We drive past, enter the village. The main road turns left and after five minutes it runs into a field. The most popular rocks are right behind it. The canyon itself is upstream. You need to go there along the fields and dirt road. Leave the village, near the tractor base to the right, then along the field to the landing - there will be a small passage through it. Then the road goes between the canyon and the forest. It's easier to show on a map than to explain. The only correct path from the village to the canyon is highlighted in orange. Yes, these are all primers. The ride is about 20-30 minutes.

1 - the most popular rocks (photos 2-7), 2 - an impromptu parking lot, 3 - a tractor base, near it you need to turn right, 4 - a lake, 5 - here we dive through the landing, 6 - the steepest view of the canyon (photo 15- 23), 7 - another coolest place with a convenient descent to the water (photo 27-33), 8 - a small waterfall (photo 24-26).

P.S. Firewood for a fire can be found on the spot, but you need to go to the landing for them, on the shore everything has long been dismantled. So if you are too lazy to walk a lot - take coal with you) It is also advisable to take a folding brazier with you. There are few equipped places for fires, and the grass is all dry around - it can catch fire.

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ARIZON CRATER (Barringer Crater, Devil's Canyon) is one of the largest and best preserved meteorite craters located near Diablo Canyon in northern Arizona (USA). The current dimensions of the crater: diameter - 1265 m, depth - 175 m, the rise of the rampart - 40-48 m.

It is assumed that the crater arose as a result of a two-million-ton nickel meteorite with a size of 61-79 m falling to the Earth about 27 thousand years ago. fell into the ground. The location of the crater was known to the local Indians for a long time, who used metal fragments of the meteorite for their own purposes. Local tribes have a huge number of legends and traditions associated with this sacred place. Scientists only became aware of the existence of the crater since 1891.

Arizona Crater, Devil's Canyon (anomalous zone)

This is not the largest meteorite to hit Earth. In Antarctica, on Wilkes Island in 1962, a meteorite crater with a diameter of 241 kilometers and a depth of 800 meters was discovered. In Canada, on the coast of the Hudson Bay, there is a crater with a diameter of 443 kilometers.

From the 1950s to the present, numerous tourists and locals have reported numerous sightings of air glow and UFO hovering over the Arizona Crater. According to some data, gravimagnetic and chronal anomalies are sometimes allegedly observed in the center of the crater. The crater has been used more than once as a backdrop for filming fantastic films about the travels of earthlings to other planets, and about the arrival of huge UFOs in "their secret harbor, closed from prying eyes."