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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre these the most magical settlements in the world? A village inside a volcano crater, cliff houses
made of clay and a tiny town that lives under a rock* Some villages exist in what would be considered as uninhabitable places around the world
* They have thrived by adapting to the natural surroundings and some remain hidden away from the rest of the world
* Hidden villages can be found in the middle of the Grand Canyon, in clay structures on rock faces, and underground
Bravest village ever? The settlement of Aogashima in the Philippine Sea, has 200 inhabitants who live in the middle of a volcanic crater
Hidden behind a rock! This tiny settlement is concealed from the Greek coastline behind a giant rock on the island
Long way to the corner shop! Only 16 people live in this tiny village nestled high on the cliffs near the coast of the Faroe Islands
Nestled in one of the driest locations on earth, is Huacachina; a town complete with trees, hotels, shops and even an oasis library - tranquil!
Fairytale village! Undredal is hidden in a narrow valleyin the Aurlandsfjord in Norway, and looks like something out of Disney movie
Gorge-ous views! Tiny hilltop village, Rougon, boasts panoramic views of the surrounding Verdon Gorge in the south of France
More to see here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3050646/A-village-inside-crater-active-volcano-cliff-houses-clay-tiny-town-lives-rock-magical-settlements-world.html
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Dream worlds, indeed.
underpants
(182,988 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)is where captain nemo used to park the nautilus.
ETA I had to look it up on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aogashima
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)be the main reason for our eventual extinction.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Climate-change deniers, who contend that 'science and technology will always find a way', are going to have to put their money where their mouth is all too soon, I fear.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)How enchanting.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)That said, some of those haunting 'art' photographs of the desolate, abandoned buildings in Detroit almost make it magical.
treestar
(82,383 posts)They could get tourists from the publicity - though it looks like they are tough places to get to!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Which is precisely why they have remained pristine and unspoiled.
I suspect that tourists are the last thing these isolated folks want!
treestar
(82,383 posts)So lucky to look out every day and see what they see.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)That said, to get to the hospital or specialist medical care, be prepared to wait.
treestar
(82,383 posts)That would be the downside. Though I guess they are quite expert in getting to and from their villages!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)And, the mail boat only comes once a week, at best.
brer cat
(24,637 posts)and another wow! You make me want to get my travelin' shoes on and hit the road. These are so enchanting it is hard to believe people actually live there.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)brer cat
(24,637 posts)My first thought was a book illustration from some fantasy classic.
Chakaconcarne
(2,478 posts)Huacachina... It's a 2 hour bus ride from Lima, Peru and very much a stopping off point for many traveling the Gringo trail...
It's looks peaceful in this picture, but late in the day when travelers come through there are people sandboarding on the dunes and dune buggies all over.
It must be beautiful inside that crater of the first picture.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)When I was on the train.
Fascinating spotting these troglodyte dwellings.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Very eco-friendly way to live. Warm in winter and cool in summer!
suffragette
(12,232 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)How would you get insurance for such a house? Maybe the policy would have a special rider saying, "This policy will not cover losses incurred due to eruptions."
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)San Andreas? How do people get insurance there?
tclambert
(11,087 posts)The governor of Florida may not believe in climate change or rising sea levels, but insurance companies do.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)For the most part, people here have no earthquake insurance, it is prohibitively expensive. I know of a number of people who don't have any (myself included) and noone who does, small sample but I believe it is representative.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)live inside a volcano. And they may have decided that if it does erupt, and I hope they would have enough warning, they would go someplace? Might even have a plan for that eventuality.
Or is it possible the Governments have some policies that cover them if they need it?
Anyhow, it is beautiful to see, all of them.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)One has to first survive an eruption to be able to collect on an insurance policy.
Is homeowner's insurance even a thing in remote locations of the world? I would think there needs to be a certain population density before insurance companies start extracting value out of a region.
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)suddenly I'm a supervillian.
Double standards.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Judy Collins Sings "My Father"
Edmund StAustell - Feb 15, 2013
Some songs are just so good and so moving that they never grow old. This beautiful love song to her Father and to the dream of living in France is one such song. For those whose native language is not English, here are the lyrics:
My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance
We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time
All my sisters soon were gone
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man
I stayed behind the youngest still
Only danced alone
The colors of my father's dreams
Faded without a sound
And I live in Paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the words of a miner's life
In words they've never seen
I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
set in my father's eyes again
My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance
I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
set in my father's eyes again.
Neither of us ever made it there. He died when I was 13 and he was 51. The second image of her in the video is like a twin of me. This song makes me cry listening to it after all these years.
There was no mother to take over, and I realized I had to grow up fast and take care of myself. I hope I did an adequate job. I think a lot of him on the holidays, and the older I get, the more I miss him.
Strange, after half a century, isn't it. He had many paintings of such scenes he loved to look at, hoping for the future, but he was not a miner, though. Thanks for the French and the translation.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)touching reminiscence about your dad. He died too, too young. And you 'had to grow up fast and take care of yourself.'
'And watch the Paris sun
set in my father's eyes again'
Beautiful, just beautiful.
Thanks for acquainting me with this song from Judy. I didn't know it.
Paris will always be here, fresh. She's the eternal 'Ville de Lumière'. Perhaps you'll make it one day.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)Thanks for the link.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)I would think that desert city would be consumed every year.
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Falling rocks must be a serious danger in that place.
And you see the homesteads on teh TOP of the rocks, esp. the mansion on the right-hand side of the pic? How the heck do they get up there? I mean, the view has got to just be AMAZING but damn what a HASSLE everything must be. Someone has a heart-attack up there, unless there's a helicopter just waiting to rescue them (maybe they even have their own?), that person is pretty much toast. Would love to visit these places though!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)to those lovely island locations when the seas rise due to climate change? It's good that there will be pictures to remember by.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)far-away places. :-D
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Hope these visions flitted through your dreams last night.
burrowowl
(17,654 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)MidschoolLiberal17
(16 posts)If anyone, by chance, went to these areas, be sure to take a picture and post it on a thread so every DUer can see it!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Many DUers are superb photographers. Keep a look out for them. There's even a monthly photo contest.
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Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It would be a 3-day trip, which would involve traveling from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Hachiojima Island, then by helicopter from Hachiojima to Aogashima. Total price for a round trip for me, including 2 nights accommodation on the island, would be around $600.
Historic NY
(37,457 posts)"Still considered a Class-C active volcano by the Japan Meteorological Agency, the last eruption of Aogashima was during a four-year period from 17811785."
I'd shudder at every little vibration....
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)seems to have caught a lot of people off guard. Although according to Wiki, there were some precursors about three weeks before the eruption.