Ten of Australia's most amazing natural phenomena
Burning mountains, pink lakes, horizontal waterfalls ... our country is filled with spectacular and sometimes bizarre natural phenomena.
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Burning mountains, pink lakes, horizontal waterfalls ... our country is filled with spectacular and sometimes bizarre natural phenomena.
About 20 kilometres from anywhere resembling a town in the south-east, a inconspicuous dirt road cuts through man-made forest to the most ominously-named sinkhole of them all. Despite the popularity of other surrounding cenotes, there's not a single person to be seen on the road, or at the park from which a pathway leads to a shaggy and distinctly out-of-place patch of bush. It's eerily quiet when I reach the hellmouth, which has been made accessible to visitors by an enclosed steel bridge which juts over the top of the sinkhole, the height from which makes me instantly woozy. I clutch ...