travel # 61 Darvaza Gas Craters in Turkmenistan

Darvaza Gas Craters

Some people, to make it interesting and gossip worthy, they call the Darvaza Gas Craters as the “Gateway to Hell”. Well, actually if you look at it, the whole place is creepy – there is a big hole on the ground and that’s the crater. The hole is full of fire, literally. It is burning continuously. The Darvaza Gas Craters is definitely one of the things to see in Turkmenistan. In truth, the crater is a gas field located in Derweze – people put gas in it and you can try that too