Sentences with phrase «boqueron volcano crater»

Other things to see besides Kona, the volcano craters with bubbling lava flows into the Pacific Ocean are an amazing sight and old lava tubes are fun to explore with Eco systems that seem prehistoric, many open to the public, one is over 22 miles long (bring lots of batteries and extra strong Kona Coffee brew).

Vialet has visited schools where the center of the schoolyard was about as vacant as a volcano crater, flanked by children on the sidelines, unsure of what to do with their free time or how to engage their classmates.

The «Pikaia Lodge concept» was conceived to deliver an exciting and real «once in a life time» experience to the environmentally conscious, eco-adventure traveler, who seeks active and intimate contact with the unique natural heritage of the Galapagos along with all the comforts of a highly evolved lifestyle Hidden in a secluded giant tortoise reserve on an extinct volcano crater, Pikaia Lodge is a spectacular new alternative to cruises, enabling guests to explore Galapagos in a sustainable, yet luxurious way.

Pilanesberg National Park is a beautiful park with a 55,000 hectares surface in an extinct volcano crater, which explains its circular shape.

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the area - and, by comparison, receives little of the acclaim it deserves... The 55 000 hectare Pilanesberg park opened in 1979 in one of the largest game resettlement projects in the history of South Africa, and possibly the most expensive as commercial farmers gave over land to be restocked with wildlife.

The lake is set in a volcano crater and, as a result, the water has a slight sulfur taste.

Watch the sunrise over Mt Bromo, hike around a volcano crater, sample java from its namesake island, chill out on stunning beaches, hang ten with a surf lesson in Java, enjoy the nightlife of Koh S...

The long extinct volcano crater in question is now home to the Pilanesberg reserve and was well worth the visions of disaster.

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the are...

After admiring this incredible natural spectacle for a bit more than an hour, we got some rest on the thin mattresses near the volcano crater that were carried up by camels.

Start your day with a breakfast overlooking Mount Batur and the volcanoes crater lake, before venturing downhill through the central Bali's countryside.

Back on the main road and continuing east, there is Goris, City of Trees, which is located in a volcano crater, and has kind of neat downtown, called Central.

The highlight of the interior is the volcano crater lakes at Kelimutu.

You will see a dormant volcano crater, the active Masaya Crater, go shopping at the artisan markets, explore the colonial town of Granada, and go on a boat ride viewing the islets of Lake Nicaragua, and even get to feed monkeys!

Molokini is a sunken, extinct volcano crater about 2 miles of the coast!

Located in Parque El Boqueron at 1800 meters you will find an impressive view of the dormant volcano crater.

Positioned in the mountains, on the floor of the largest inhabited volcano crater in the world, this quiet village is the place to come for fresh air, stunning views, hiking, swimming and relaxing.

On this excursion, you will snorkel inside of a volcano crater, a truly unique experience of a life time!

Present day the volcano crater is partially submerged in the ocean which has created an idea environment for tropical sea life and excellent snorkeling.

Explore the World Heritage rainforest, scenic views of the mighty mountains, the many rivers, raging waterfalls and tranquil lakes in volcano craters.

RINJANI VOLCANO CRATER RIM & SEGARA ANAK LAKE TREKKING 2 Days / 1 Night Rinjani mountain crater rim in the middle of Rinjani National Park is one of the best trekking destinations in Indonesia; it provides spectacular views of the lake Segara Anak within the volcano's crater.

On the east end of the island lies Hanauma Bay, the remnants of a volcano crater that's now a marine sanctuary and popular snorkel location.

Whether you take a tour of the famous volcano crater or just make the most of the fresh sea waters and hiking options, this holiday destination offers something for everyone.

The eco-friendly lodge, built on an extinct volcano crater, utilizes alternative energy sources and is home to its own Tortoise Reserve.

Guests are welcome to relax using any of the hammocks slung throughout the resort grounds, lounge by the pool with a drink from the well stocked bar, or sunbath on the elevated deck before cooling off in one of the most beautiful and unique swimming locations in the world, the extinct Apoyo Volcano crater lake.

Take a coach tour to the Atherton Tablelands to see all the amazing sites, waterfalls, volcano crater lakes, the romantic Paronella Park, and the mysterious Babinda Boulders.

The picturesque Atherton Tablelands are home to heritage listed rainforest, mountains, waterfalls, volcano crater lakes, rivers and national parks.

Therefore, intermittent renewables are not a suitable source of power for pumped hydro, except in a few special, extraordinary cases --(such as El Heiro island where they have a 700 m high extinct volcano crater providing a large upper reservoir, good wind resource and are replacing high - cost diesel generation.)

Not exact matches

A rush of moving magma on Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has triggered hundreds of earthquakes in recent days and caused the crater floor at Puu Oo to collapse.

«But meteor crater was once thought to be a volcano, father and son geologist proved impact crate» yes, through science and reasoning.

The cakes rose high and resembled volcanoes without the craters when they emerged from the oven.

There is a volcanic crater lake up there — one that until pretty recently people used as a giant natural hot tub, at least until seismic activity intensified and folks realized that swimming in a volcano's simmering crater lake might not be the best idea.

We drove around the huge crystal - clear lake that is inside the crater of a volcano and stopped at several overlooks.

Volcanoes are complex geothermal phenomena, and as every kid knows, a volcanic eruption is caused when someone puts a tablespoon of baking soda into a crater of vinegar.

The most common perception of a volcano is of a conical mountain, spewing lava and poisonous gases from a crater in its top.

A steep lava dome (dark area just left of center) is swelling rapidly inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, next to an older dome that emerged after the volcano erupted in 1980.

Ever since NASA's Magellan probe mapped Venus's surface in detail in the early 1990s, scientists have known that the landscape there is remarkably unblemished by impact craters but rich in apparently dormant volcanoes.

Soar over Pluto's seas, mountains, craters and volcanoes of ice in this montage of images released by NASA from the New Horizons encounter with the dwarf planet.

The spectacular Martian scenery includes a six - mile - deep crater that could swallow half the U.S. and a dead volcano that towers to 17 miles.

Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.

Their abundant presence on this peak may be tied to the liquid carbon dioxide spewed by the volcano's hydrothermal vents, which kills virtually all life in the deeper reaches of the crater.

Boise State University geologist Jeff Johnson gathers data over the edge of the inner crater of Villarrica, an active volcano in Chile.

Before they descended, their sonar revealed a new feature in Vailulu'u's massive crater, a volcano — Nafanua — that was absent four years earlier.

Since the volcano is still active, bunker - like concrete shelters are provided around the crater, built after a dozen people perished in a sudden eruption some 50 years ago.

By KURT KLEINERIN AUGUST an 800 - kilogram robot called Dante picked its way into the crater of Mount Spurr, an active volcano in southern Alaska.

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.

The four extinct volcanoes in the cluster are calderas, which form after a volcano erupts and the land around them collapses, forming a crater.

The upcoming visual exploration of Pluto will fill in knowledge gaps, possibly revealing craters or ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet.

The flybys produced superb images of the surfaces of Jupiter's large Galilean satellites, revealing sulphurous volcanoes on Io, ice chasms on Europa, huge ringed impact craters on Callisto, and polygonal dark regions on Ganymede.

Trying to guess what it could be, he and his colleagues ruled out a meteor crater, a volcano, and, as they joked, Dr. Evil's sub-ice lair.