10 Most Dangerous Places On Earth

While there are so many awesome, sweet, beautiful, and paradise-like places to visit, there are also extremely dangerous, unpredictable region of the world to AVOID owing to unknown dangers that lurk around in every corner. Below, we have talked about exactly those places of the world that one must NOT visit if they are looking for an ideal holiday destination. Those who are ready for some serious adventure or tour, please avoid these places that have been proven as extremely dangerous places in the world.

10 Most Dangerous Places On Earth

1. Gates of Hell – Door To Hell, Turkmenistan: The Turkmenistan Darva Gas Crater is notoriously known as the “Gates of Hell”. It’s an underground natural gas field within a cave. In 1971, Geologists set it on fire to prevent the methane gas from spreading, and it has been burning ever since. It is situated in the middle of the Karakum desert, around 260 kilometers north of the capital of Turkmenistan, near the village of Derweze, Ashgabat.

The natural gas reserve that has been discovered here is one of the world’s most extensive gasses. Local residents gave it the name “Door to Hell”, referring to the orange flames, boiling mud, and explosion in the large crater, 70 meters in diameter. The hot areas spread across an entire area of 60 meters long and about 20 meters deep. It’s not in doubt among one of the deadliest places on earth.

2. Snake Island, Brazil: This Island is situated around 25 miles off Brazil’s coast where no local resident would ever dream to walk. The mysterious island is known by the name IIha da Queimada Grande, and going there is too dangerous that the Brazilian Government has made it an offence for anyone to visit. There were rumors sometimes ago that the last fisherman who strayed very close to it shores was found lifeless drooling in his own pool of blood. The island is deadly in the form of the golden lancehead snakes – a pit viper species that is one of the world’s most deadly serpents.

3. Bermudia Triangle: The Bermudia Triangle is a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean extending across Bermudia, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Miami, and Florida has been credited with deaths and disappearance of over 8,000 lives over the past centuries. At least 50 ships and 20 airplanes have disappeared in the triangle without a trace. It notorious to swallow ships and vanish planes, where pilots and sailors are prone to lose contact with the natural world and disappear forever under mysterious circumstances.

4. Death Valley, Border of California & Nevada: This is the most extreme place on earth. Death Valley is a desert valley situated on border of California and Nevada with extreme heat (super hot). It is referred as one of the hottest places on earth. Only few deserts in Africa and the Middle East, approaching very high temperature during the “summer” which can give competition to the Death Valley. The hottest place on Earth had its hottest month record of July 2018. The known average temperature in this place, including overnight lows, was 108.1OF. For four days in a row, the daily highs temperature hit 127OF, it’s the highest recorded temperature.

A group of settlers who were lost here in the winters around 1849-1850 gave it the forbidden name “Death Valley”. It was recorded that only one person died here, as far as we know, the settlers thought this valley would be their cemetery. They were saved by two of their young men who were trained scouts, William Lewis Manly and John Rogers. As the men were climbing over the Panamint Mountains from the valley, one of the men turned and looked back saying, “goodbye, Death Valley” earning its spot in the top dangerous places.

5. The Blue Hole, Dahab, Egypt: Blue holes are known to be essentially very deep-reaching sinkholes or marine caverns that usually give way to underwater cave passages, and the blue Hole of Dahab is one of the world’s biggest. In the last several years, it is reported that over 200 divers lost their lives in the Blue Hole – although not an official statistic per say.

6. The Amazon Rainforest, Brazil: The Amazon rainforest is as dangerous as it is beautiful, covering much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Peru, Columbia and other South American countries, is known as the world’s largest rainforest, famed for its varieties of plant and animal lives. It is a home for all kind of dangerous creatures such as anacondas, spiders, sharks, vipers, piranhas, electric eels (knife-fish), rattle snakes, jaguar, poison dart frog, bullet ants, as so many more. Dive into the Amazon at your own risk.

7. Oymyakon, Russia: It’s a Russian village located in the Oymyakonsky district of Russia, and serves as home to only about 500 persons who fight to survive the bitter cold. It is famously considered to be dangerous to humans owing to the severe climate condition - the most frigid (coldest) places in the world. The severe temperature makes it impossible for life to sustain in this region of the world. It’s even got the lowest recorded temperature of -71OC (-96OF) in history for a place permanently inhabited by humans.

8. Death Road, North Yungas, Bolivia: This road situated in North Yungas is well known as the “Death Road” for so many genuine reason that you can guess. It spans across 43 miles (69 kilometers) a zigzag path extremely dangerous because of landslides, waterfall, fog (cloud), and cliffs falling 2000 feet (610 meters) in each turn. Before 1994, almost 300 drivers were killed every year, justifying its nickname and earning its spot as one of the most dangerous places to visit on earth. The road spans far enough to connect the Amazon rainforest to the capital city, surrounded by mountainous terrain. This means that many merchant were usually crammed into trucks or buses trying to sell their crops and wood in the area. This hairpins turns were not wide enough for each vehicle, thereby leading many trucks to go down with people and their livelihood.

9. Lake Natron, North Tanzania: This Lake is notorious as one of the most inhospitable places on earth. The Lake Natron acts and looks like a lake of fire. Its high level of Natron (sodium carbonate decahydrate) makes its waters very corrosive to human skin and eyes, sometimes reaching a ph level of 12. The Lake contains red-colored bacteria, producing its unique pink-red hues. Even if most species can’t handle the 120 degree lake water, cyanobacteria have made Natron their ideal home and turned the Lake its trademark of reds and oranges. Surprisingly, over 2.5 million Lesser Flamingos call Lake Natron their home, considering the fact that it is one of their only breeding grounds, now making the protection of the lake a priority. The above views have earned it a place among the world’s most dangerous places.

10. Danakil Desert, Africa: This desert is around northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti. Situated in the Afar Triangle, it spans across 136,956 square kilometers of the arid terrain. It is one of the most uninhabited environments on earth, with temperatures that regularly rise above 50oC (122oF), volcanoes and geysers that spew toxic gas. This desert is not a perfect place for travel enthusiasts because your physical health is highly at risk within a very short period of time you stay there. The most adverse effects occlur owing to the presence of high concentration of poisoning vapors of sulfur in the area. The area is volcanically active and on top of that, to increase the risk, the air temperature of this desert nearly falls below 50o Celsius, thereby bagging it place among the world’s most dangerous places.