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We all know about the horrors of German fascism, concentration camps and massacres. But they happily forgot about the no less nightmarish page in the history of mankind - slavery. The small island of Gore, which is 5 kilometers off the coast of Senegal, can definitely be called the most terrible place in Africa. For 300 years, the island was a prison for millions of black slaves brought from the mainland and waiting to be sent to South and North America. People were kept in inhuman conditions, in tiny cells 3x3 meters, where up to 20 (!) people were stuffed. They waited for the slave traders to buy them, after which they were driven like cattle into the holds of ships and set off on a long voyage across the ocean. On average, every third slave died of starvation and disease on the way from Africa to America, and a considerable part of them died on the island of Gora.

The journey to the island begins from the Dakar sea terminal, where you are attacked by the inevitable "helpers", here, in the photo, he runs shouting "Misyo, I'm from your hotel, do you remember me?". Of course I remember, how can I forget my girl friend? So he told him, wanting to test their reaction to a joke that was clearly ambiguous for a Muslim country. He did not immediately get it, he says: "I'm your friend, not a girl rand." I throw up my hands theatrically, and you look so much like my mistress! The man was a little taken aback: "-Uh-uh ..." and left me alone.

There is a hitch at the gate, the guard mumbles something and does not let through. I walked around the entrance on the left, through a large gate, but another figure noticed me, he is visible in the photo and is standing with a phone. What's happened? They say something incomprehensible in a mixture of French and Wolof. I don't understand. I start to move away from them, not reacting to the screams. But the watchman ran after me, grabbed my hand and let's pull back. And I pull on myself, we stand, we push, onlookers gather. The situation was sorted out by a random person who told me that the guard wants a passport, such are the rules when visiting the seaport. Passport? Yes, no problem, but he did not ask for a passport, but mumbled something indistinct, I can even make out the word "passeport" even in French. I show my passport, it immediately returns to the gate. The incident is over.

Dakar Sea Terminal -

Ferries to Gore Island run once an hour and cost 5,000 CFA ($9) round trip, while locals pay three times less. Boarding begins

The audience is extremely colorful! Today in Senegal some kind of holiday and people all over the city walk around in white robes and sing songs, the content of which I do not know -

Interview for television, filmed on a regular camera -

And here is the island of Gore. The people rejoiced, they sang even louder, laughed, danced (the video will be at the very end of the article). Meanwhile, their ancestors were driven to this island in shackles and no one experienced joy on the occasion of getting there ...

Bingo, I'm on the island of Gore -

Long-changed ferry schedule and fares -

The island was discovered by the Portuguese in 1444, having erected a fortress there, but in 1588 it was captured by the Dutch, from whom the island was squeezed out by the French and then the British. In 1817 France won the final victory. The island, like Senegal as a whole, remained under its control until 1960, when Senegal declared independence. The place is very picturesque, quiet and pleasant to explore. Old Catholic churches side by side with elegant European villas with courtyards hidden in lush greenery.

There are a lot of people, but most of them are visitors. There are about a thousand permanent residents on the island.

Baobabs -

Portuguese fortress -

Fans of military history and fortifications, are you surprised by concrete bunkers on an African island? Of course, they were built by the French between the two world wars, but were never used for their intended purpose. Fortunately for Senegal, the war did not reach him.

It was assumed that these heavy guns would not allow German ships to enter Dakar Bay -

There are five such fortifications along the perimeter of Gora -

Inside the fortress

Little has changed here in the last century.

During the slave trade, soldiers and their families lived here. Buyers of living goods also arrived here and were accommodated in hotels specially created for this purpose. Yes, the first "tourists" on Gor were slave traders -

I'm bastard from baobabs -

On the main square of Gora, a universal prayer is held -

And again my favorite baobab -

This is the place where a huge group of pilgrims in white dined. I did not find a mass lunch, but I saw how lunch was "finished": they simply pick rice from the vats into a paper "plate" with their hands and eat from there with their hands -

And here is one of the hotels, built in the early 19th century for the residence of slave traders. Works to this day -

Soldier barracks. Several hundred soldiers lived on the island in order to monitor the slaves and, in which case, suppress unrest and stop attempts to escape -

Grace and the boys pulling the boat ashore -

One-two-took-and-and!

The embankment is very picturesque and all the colonial villas have been preserved here -

French fort built in 1830 -

3 hours flew by unnoticed as I walk around the island. It would be nice to spend the night here and take a walk in the evening when there is sunset. An extremely pleasant island, unless of course you think about what happened here 200 years ago.

Promised video -

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There are many strange things in the world.

Some are created by nature, others are man-made.

20. La Isla de las Munecas ("Isle of the Dolls")

This island is located near the city of Mexico City. A man named Don Julian apparently lost his mind, abandoned his family and fled to this island, where he hung several dolls to ward off evil spirits. Some time later, he drowned.

19. Okunoshima Island

This small island is located in the Sea of ​​Japan, near the city of Takehara. It is also called "Rabbit Island". Between 1929 and 1945, the Japanese army used the island as a test site for chemical weapons and apparently imported rabbits as test subjects. The rabbits that inhabit the island today are the descendants of those very poor animals.

18. Isola La Gaiola

Not far from the coast of Naples lies the terrible island of Gaiola. Almost every inhabitant of this island has either been killed, or drowned, or lives in devastation. Many consider this place cursed and refuse to live here.

17. Deer Island, Thousand Islands

At first glance, this island, located next to Alexandria Bay, New York, USA, looks like an old island with old houses. But in fact, it is the site of the oldest secret society "Skull and Bones" (Skull & Bones), organized by Yale students.

It is believed that only representatives of the highest elite, the heirs of the wealthiest and most influential families in the United States, become members of this secret society. Both in the past and now, members of the Skull and Bones Society hold the highest positions in the fields of politics, media, finance, as well as in the scientific and educational fields.

16. Floating Islands on Lake Titicaca

These islands, created entirely by human hands ka, are interconnected by reeds and are the property of the local Uros tribe. A long time ago, representatives of the tribe created these islands and settled on them in order to avoid problems with other tribes. Today, this tribe still lives on the islands and is engaged in fishing, and also profits from tourism.

15. Poveglia Island

This island is one of the most famous in the Venetian Lagoon, which is located in northern Italy. For many years this island served as a "dump" for the sick and the dead. Here at one time the Romans sent victims of the plague.

In 1922, a hospital for the mentally ill was built here and, according to the legend, crazy experiments were carried out in this institution. Today, the island is uninhabited; moreover, none of the locals even think of visiting it.

14. Alcatraz Island

Located in San Francisco Bay, the island was originally used as a defensive fort.

After some time, the island was turned into a military prison, and then into a super-secure prison, in which there were especially dangerous criminals, as well as those who were caught trying to escape from the previous place of detention. Here sat Al Capone himself. Today this place is a museum.

Islands in the Atlantic Ocean

13. Sable Island

Off the coast of Nova Scotia is Sable Island, also known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. All you will find on this island are horses and the wreckage of 350 ships. It is worth noting that the image of the horses of this island can be found on Canadian stamps and coins of 2005.

It will also be interesting to note that due to two countercurrents: the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current, the island is moving and its speed is about 200 m / year. This sometimes leads to navigational errors.

12. Queimada Grande or Snake Island (Ilha de Queimada Grande)

There is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, near the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Queimada Grande is just full of poisonous snakes, and these are not just poisonous, but very poisonous snakes.

Moreover, the Brazilian naval forces forbid even setting foot on the coast of this island.

11. Fort Boyar

This island was built for 56 years. The project of the stone fortress-island was far from easy - when the French troops completed construction in 1857, progress in the field of weaponry made this island an easy target. This led to Fort Boyar being turned into a prison.

During World War II, German troops used the island for practice shooting and caused significant damage to the building. For the next 20 years, the Fort was in disrepair, and under the influence of waves, wind and birds continued to collapse. Only later did television become interested in him, they bought the island, did the necessary restoration work and began to use it for the television game of the same name.

Islands in the Indian Ocean

10. Christmas Island

This small island is located in the Indian Ocean and is the outer territory of Australia. It is he who is the site of one of the largest migrations of representatives of the animal world on Earth.

Every year, about 120 million crabs move from the forests to the coast for a month to breed. It is truly an exciting sight.

9. Socotra Island

The island is located in the northwest of the Indian Ocean. It is part of the Socotra archipelago and is administered by the Republic of Yemen.

Since this island was isolated from prying eyes for a long time, a wide variety of plants and animals have been preserved here, most of which cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.

8. North Sentinel Island

This island is one of the Andaman Islands located in the Bay of Bengal. North Sentinel Island is officially administered by India.

The Sentinelese, the aborigines, live on northern Sentinel Island. Their number cannot be accurately determined, since they are hostile to any contact from people outside their civilization. The island currently exists in a rather unusual state of limbo.

Islands in the Pacific Ocean

7. Tashiro Island

Also known as "Cat Island", this small Japanese island is home to about 100 people and a huge number of cats and cats.

It is reported that the animals appeared on the island in the 1850s in order to control the number of rats that interfered with the silk production on the island.

Over the years, a large number of residents left the island, and the number of cats and cats began to increase. Today, the inhabitants of the island consider the animals as symbols of good luck. Tourists can even spend the night in a cat-like house.

Taal Lake in Luzon, in the northern part of the Philippines archipelago, is recognized as one of the most unique in the world. The fact is that this is one of two lakes on the planet that have an island of the third order inside. In other words, Taal, which is located on the island of Luzon, has its own volcanic island, inside of which there is another crater lake containing another small island inside called Volcano Point. So this amazing matryoshka is obtained: island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island! If you have not yet begun to celebrate Friday and the upcoming New Year holidays, then you will surely be able to easily understand the previous phrase.

Another similar lake with lakes and islands inside is located in Canada. We are talking about a nameless island, with an area of ​​1.6 hectares, which is located inside a small, also unnamed lake, which, in turn, lies inside another slightly larger one. This place is located approximately 90 kilometers inland from the south coast of Victoria Island. On the map in Google Maps, you can see it by setting the following coordinates: 69.793°N, 108.241°W.

Here are some photos of Taal Lake on Luzon Island:

Surely many of you have read Stephen King's novel called "The Dark Tower", or the Lord of the Rings with its Mordor tower? You will be very surprised to learn that the fantastic huge tower still exists, and it was not some evil genius who created it, but nature. It is called - Pico C?o Grande, which translates as the Peak of the Great Dog and is located on the small island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Africa

This is one of the highest needle-shaped volcanic peaks on Earth, with a height of 300 meters, it is second only to the Devil's Tower in Wyoming. It is very difficult to photograph it, as the peak is most often hidden in the clouds.

The mountain looks like a giant finger pointing to the sky



On the top, covered with many vines, only birds nest, and some species of snakes also live. And this is what the peak looks like in a picture from space

The tower, shrouded in mist, looks very serene and majestic. It can be compared in some way with Mount Roraima, which we wrote about recently

Among the rare species of living creatures that live on the island of Sao Tome, one can distinguish the sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea, the giant toad of Sao Tome, as well as other rare species

It is almost impossible to climb to the top of this cliff, it is covered with dense fog, and its slopes are slippery as ice. If you want to visit these places, and maybe even try to climb to the very top of the Dark Tower - hurry up before the giant King Kong, or some other terrible monster, has chosen the top as his home