The farthest loft on earth. The most inaccessible places in the world. Consisting of a bunch of tiny islands, the Pitcairn archipelago is located in the heart of the South Pacific Ocean.

For a real traveler, it is not the number of places visited that matters, but their quality. Agree, to visit the South Pole is much more honorable than, for example, to go to Paris. There are no more white spots on our planet, but, nevertheless, there are many secluded corners that are inaccessible to most tourists...

No. 10. Easter Island, Chile

1. Easter Island, or Rapanui, belongs to Chile and is considered the most remote island on the planet from the continent (3500 km to the coast of Chile).

3. At the time of the discovery of the island by the Dutch admiral, the population of the island was 2-3 thousand people. After this event, the island was forgotten for 50 years. And in 1770 the island was annexed by Spain.

4. The ancient culture of Easter Island is shrouded in mystery and charm. The most famous symbol of Easter Island is the large statues-idols made of stone. Moai statues reach a height of 20 meters. They are made in the form of a head with a torso.

5. Moai idols were made in the period from the 12th to the 15th centuries, after this period their production abruptly stopped. Why the production of Moai stopped and where the people who inhabited the island disappeared is still a mystery.

No. 9. City of La Rinconada, Peru

6. The city of La Rinconada is located in the Andes mountains in the permafrost zone at an altitude of 5100 meters above sea level. Getting to the city is very difficult. The air temperature here is always below zero. There are no plants suitable for human consumption. And because of rarefied air, people quickly lose strength.

7. La Rinconada was formed at the end of the 20th century as a small settlement of gold miners. From the side of the plain, a magnificent landscape of mountain peaks opens up, but when you drive closer, the smell of rotting industrial waste hits your nose.

8. The population of the city is 30 thousand people, almost all of them are engaged in gold mining in mine caves. La Rinconada has a dubious reputation as a city for the poor and the desperate. Gold mining is carried out in terrible conditions, people are not paid wages, they work for a percentage of the gold found, but not everyone and not always find it.

9. Life expectancy in the city is about 50 years. There are reasons for this: there are many accidents, people live and work in poor conditions, the ore emits mercury vapor.

Incredible Facts

There are still places on Earth where no human foot has set foot.

But also on our planet there are places where people should not have lived, but they still live there.

Whether it's unbearable heat, Siberian frosts, or an island that is almost impossible to get to, some people are unwilling or unable to leave their places of residence for one reason or another.

Here is a list of 25 such places.

25. Atacama Desert, Chile/Peru

This desert is considered the driest place on Earth. It rains here 4 times in a thousand years.

Temperatures can range from incredibly cold at night to stifling heat during the day.

Despite these conditions, over 1 million people consider the desert their home, and most of them work in a copper mine.

24. Verkhoyansk, Russia

Despite the fact that this is one of the coldest places on our planet, and officially coldest city on earth, Verkhoyansk is still inhabited.

Where the temperature reached the mark -69.8 degrees Celsius lives a little over 1,200 people.

23. Merapi Volcano, Indonesia

This is the largest active volcano in the country, which is located on the island of Java, near the city of Yogyakarta.

Merapi is also called the "fiery mountain", and it erupted more than 60 times in 500 years. But this did not force nearly a quarter of a million residents to leave their homes, located on fertile land in the shadow of a volcano.

22. Kivu (Lake), Rwanda/Democratic Republic of the Congo

At the bottom of this lake are several million cubic meters of methane and carbon dioxide. If all this comes to the surface, more than 2 million people could be affected.

21. Pitcairn Islands

Sometimes they are called "the smallest democracy on Earth." This state is the place of residence for 50 residents from 9 families.

On the island no harbor or airport- can only be reached by canoe. But there is high-speed Internet.

20. Cook Islands, Australia and Oceania

Only 4 people live here. There used to be a railway station here, where trains were refueled to cross longest straight road on earth.

Since nothing grows on the island, the inhabitants have to bring all the food and drinking water by boat.

19. Minqin, China

This area has a sad future. The rapid growth of the population has led to the fact that on the site of the only river passing through the district, desert formed.

Here left only 155 square kilometers of fertile land.

18. La Rinconada, Peru

The city is located in the Andes at an altitude of about 5 100 meters above sea level. That makes La Rinconada the highest human settlement on the planet. You can get into the city only by climbing a narrow mountain road.

Plus, its ecology is completely unfavorable. Except almost underdeveloped sewerage and wastewater systems, here you can find high mercury content, which remains after gold mining.

live here about 30,000 people, many of which suffer from mercury poisoning.

17. Chernobyl, Ukraine

After a tragic accident that happened in 1986, almost all the inhabitants of this city were evacuated.

To date some workers still live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, but the time of their stay is limited - only a few days a week they can live there.

It should be noted that the Exclusion Zone is a territory into which no free access, since after the accident she was subjected to intense contamination with long-lived radionuclides.

16. Linfen, China

Until 1978, this city was known for its pure spring water, greenery and rich agricultural culture, earning it the nickname "Modern City of Fruits and Flowers".

But after the city was turned into the main industrial center of coal mining environment has changed drastically.

It is currently one of the most polluted cities in the world: air polluted with ash, carbon, leadAndorganic chemicals.

15. Pompeii, Italy

After the destruction brought by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, this ancient Roman city, located in the Campania region and buried under volcanic ash, is still a place of residence for some people.

And all because of the fertile land. Even despite the fact that frozen lava lies at every step, people consider the risk of living in the city justified.

14. Socotra (island), Yemen

Known as "the most ethereal place on Earth", this island is located in the northwest Indian Ocean, about 250 km from the Somali Peninsula, and 350 km south of the Arabian Peninsula.

This makes it so isolated from the rest of the world that most of the flora and faunaimpossible to findnowhere else.

There are only two roads here, but the inhabitants, who number just over 40,000, it does not bother.

Socotra is inhabited mainly by shepherds, fishermen and farmers - they all breed frankincense and aloe, as well as sheep and goats.

13. Barrow (Alaska), USA

Barrow is the northernmost city in the US. It is located about 2,100 km from the North Pole, which makes the city incredibly cold.

In addition, Barrow is included in the list of settlements that can "boast" the harshest environmental conditions.

Only 109 days a year the temperature can rise above 0 degrees Celsius. On the average the temperature in the city is below zero for 324 days a year. Plus, frosts and snowfalls can begin in any month, and the polar nights here are incredibly long.

12. Tristan da Cunha (Islands)

Together with Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands, it is on the list the most remote settlements on the planet.

Tristan da Cunha is located 2,816 km from South Africa and 3,360 km from South America. You can only get here by fishing boats or scientific vessels., but be careful - the locals are not very friendly to tourists.

It is worth noting that immigration is illegal here.

11. Bajo, Philippines

This is not so much a locality as an ethnic group that lives in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Indigenous peoples and tribes from nearby areas were nicknamed "Sea Gypsies" because of their way of life. Even though more and more Bajo decide to move to land, there are families who continue to life on the water.

They live without drinking water and electricity, and they stick to the shore only when it is necessary to bury the dead.

10. Kifuka, Democratic Republic of the Congo

If you are afraid of lightning, then you will definitely not like it here. This village is where lightning strikes regularly, and for every square kilometer there are about 60 lightning strikes every year.

9. Meghalaya, India

This state in India is famous for its torrential downpours and monsoons. The town of Cherrapunji, which is located in this state, has become famous as the rainiest place on Earth - rainfall exceeds 11,000 mm. This amount of precipitation led to the emergence of unique plants.

8. Muli, Faroe Islands

Despite its extremely unstable weather and the complete or partial absence of minerals and vegetation, the four residents of this tiny village in the Faroe Islands are not going to leave their home just yet.

7. Motuo, China

This is the place where incredibly hard to get to. The path to this isolated settlement is considered the most difficult in the world. Here live about 10,000 people.

Here no roads and no communication with the outside world. To get to the mysterious (the word "Motuo" means "hidden, mysterious lotus") you need to make your way through the mountains, and the journey can take a week.

6. Norilsk, Russia

Besides the fact that Norilsk is one of coldest cities on earth, it is also one of most environmentally polluted cities on our planet.

5. Dallol, Ethiopia

This settlement can "boast" of the most high average annual temperature on Earth. Between 1960 and 1966, the highest average annual temperature was recorded here - 34 degrees Celsius.

In addition, Dallol - one of the most remote places on the ground. Here no roads, and to get to it, you need to use the caravan routes, which are aimed at collecting and delivering salt.

Nearby, below sea level, is Dallol volcano(last eruption in 1926). There are no exact statistics on how many people live here.

4. La Oroya, Peru

This city is famous mining and metallurgical industries. But these industries have listed the city most environmentally polluted cities in the world.

Due to lead smelting, literally all residents, including children, have some degree of lead poisoning.

The average life expectancy in this city is 51 years for men and 55 years for women. It is worth noting that on average in the country, people live 20 years more.

The main cause of death is oncology. Here there is many genetic deformities, because for several generations they have not left this lead shell.

3. Oymyakon, Russia

This village is known as one of the "Poles of Cold", ie. region where registered lowest temperature on earth.

About 500 people live here (2012). The length of the day in Oymyakon can vary from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in the summer.

In January, the average monthly temperature is -46.4 degrees Celsius(sometimes it can go down to -50).

10. Cake, Alaska

Cake (Alaska) is a small community located approximately 114 km from Juneau, the state capital. It doesn't seem very far, but the only way to get to or leave Cake is by sea or air. It is home to some 650 Tlingit (Indian people) who are known for their strong connection to the land. Tlingit communities are scattered throughout Alaska, from the northern coast of Canada to Oregon in the United States.

To get to the settlement, you will need to book a charter plane, take an air taxi, or use the Alaska’s Marine Highway System. There are two regular flights a week between Cake and the mainland - one goes north, the other south. There is no special station building, just a canopy over the loading point.

There is a rental car, kayaks and houses, but banking in a small fishing village is not developed. So only cash is accepted here.

The remoteness of Cake makes it quite a dangerous place. The city was recently shocked by the murder of a 13-year-old girl. Patrolmen are the only representatives of the law here, but they cannot quickly get to the scene due to the lack of roads. Therefore, a group of volunteers had to be on duty near the body of the victim all night until the patrol arrived.

Rural Alaska is breathtakingly beautiful. But there's a big problem with law enforcement here, and in places like Cake, there are 12 times more attacks than in the rest of the country. Cake is just one of 75 small villages with similar problems - they are remote, they do not have their own law enforcement agencies, and there is not even a road to reach them. The emergency response time is one and a half days, as a result, the population should be able to stand up for themselves.

9. Pitcairn Island, South Pacific

The tiny island in the South Pacific is home to about 50 people and the British Overseas Territory is currently attracting immigrants to repopulate. This is quite difficult, because the island can only be reached by water, and a supply ship comes only once every three months or so. Until 2002, the only communication with the outside world here was via amateur radio. The islanders have rich, fertile land, minimal pollution, stunningly beautiful beaches, diverse marine life and a fascinating history.

In 1790, Pitcairn Island was settled by rebels from the Bounty, who were in the service of the armed forces of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian, the European settlers got everything they could off the ship before setting it on fire, and also made sure no one would see or find them when the ship was on fire. Christian himself died a few years later, but the current population of the island is mainly the descendants of those rebels and the 18 Polynesians they brought with them from Tahiti.

Their existence might have gone unnoticed for years if the island had not been spotted by an American whaling ship in 1808. The settlers would never return to the mainland, but in 1814 two British ships made their way to them, who not only learned about the island, but also found out what happened to the Bounty warship.

Today the island has its own holidays and traditions, and the daily life of the islanders revolves around fishing, diving and gardening.

8. Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland

Greenland itself is rather remote, with the strangely named Ittoqqortoormiut being its most remote town. Situated in the depths of the world's largest fjord, the city is cut off from the rest of the world for about 9 months a year - as long as the ocean around is covered with ice. The city was founded in 1925, currently 450 people live here, who live off fishing and hunting.

The lack of the benefits of civilization is compensated by cleanliness and breathtaking beauty. There is only one grocery store in the city, but it's only a stone's throw from the highest of all Arctic mountains, Gunbjorn. Nearby are several uninhabited settlements, including one that was built near the hottest spring in Greenland (620 degrees Celsius) - Uunartok. In recent years, city dwellers have added another source of income to their lifestyle: tourism.

Hikers can rent a kayak or dog sled, go hiking, get up close with Arctic wildlife, and get a front row seat during the Northern Lights.

7. Supai, Arizona

The United States is the last place you would look for an isolated village, but the Indian settlement of Supai is just that. It is located in the middle of the Grand Canyon National Park, in Arizona, and like most places here, it is breathtaking.

The village is the home of the Havasupai tribe, which translates as “people of the turquoise water”. Nestled in the Grand Canyon on one of the Colorado's largest tributaries, the village is surrounded by countless waterfalls, stunning rivers, azure travertines, blue skies and vibrant, colorful rock formations only found in the deserts of the American Southwest.

The village of Supai can only be reached by taking an eight-mile trek through the canyon or by renting mules, which are usually used to transport supplies and supplies back and forth. You can also fly by helicopter, enjoying stunning views. It's the only place in the country where mail is delivered by mules, and it's a constant draw for tourists—about 20,000 people a year come from all over the world, unafraid to hike in the Arizona sun.

The city itself is not growing, but for tourists, there is only a hostel with 25 rooms and a restaurant. And so most visitors prefer to stay in less remote and more accessible nearby areas. In addition, those who visit the village should be prepared to carry everything they need: camping gear, clothing and plenty of water for a long hike in the heat.

Due to the village's location in a canyon and near the sometimes unpredictable Colorado River, flash floods occur here. But this risk is worth it to see the breathtaking waterfalls of Havasu Falls and the 200-meter Mooney Falls.

6. Aukanquilcha Volcano, Chile

The 6176-meter peak was inhabited until the 1990s. Aukankilcha has been the highest settlement since 1913. Here was a village of miners, located just below the sulfur mine. In 1993, work was stopped, and most of the artificial roads in the mountains were destroyed by landslides.

In theory, it is quite possible to drive uphill along the remaining roads. The volcano last erupted less than 1000 years ago and earthquakes occur periodically here. When the settlement first formed, the lack of oxygen forced the use of animals, such as llamas, instead of machines, and the replacement of gasoline-powered vehicles with systems based on pulleys and ropes.

The settlement was near the youngest and largest volcano in the region, which still shows signs of life, and the remains of a mining village still remain there.

The area is also vulnerable to unpredictable storms and violent winds, making already tough conditions even tougher. At this altitude, the human body is forced to adjust to the lack of oxygen, which can take several days. This usually means difficulty breathing, swelling of the extremities, poor sleep. But all these signs can disappear as soon as a person gets used to the height.

5. Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. It is home to about 270 people who farm and live in an area of ​​about 100 square kilometers. Their settlement is called Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.

The island is a British Overseas Territory. The settlers took the opportunity to establish some special rules. All lands are communal, and families cooperate, share not only work, but also profits. The island has one road, electricity is generated by generators, and groceries in the only grocery store must be ordered months in advance. There is no airport, and the only way to get to the island is by boat. The trip takes seven days from Cape Town in South Africa.

The island was discovered in 1506 by a Portuguese sailor and named after him. This is 1750 km from South Africa and 2088 km from South America - only recently the settlement received an index, because before that the mail went by mistake not to the islanders, but to Edinburgh - the capital of Scotland. There are approximately 20 rainy days on the island every month. It is located near an active volcano that last erupted in 1961. But city dwellers love this lifestyle, and virtually everyone who was evacuated after the eruption returned home as soon as they received permission to do so.

4. Villages of Krasnoyarsk

The city of Krasnoyarsk itself is one of the largest and most populated cities in Siberia, but there are a number of small villages in the remote areas of the region, where there are only a couple of houses and a few people. The region, known for its harsh winters and scorching summers, has another rather strange problem in remote villages - mostly all men live.

The small remote villages are in such a wilderness that until 2013 no one knew that there was anyone there at all. In the whole region there are almost 200,000 more women than the stronger sex, but not in the most deserted villages.

In Lokatuy, Kasovo and Novy Lokatuy there is only one resident each, a little more in Ilyinka - three men. A little more villages with four or five inhabitants, but those who live in these most remote regions of Siberia live a very long time. There are more than 70 people in the whole region who are over 100 years old.

3. Layamanu, Australia

Australia, for the most part, is a vast expanse that is largely uninhabited, unexplored and undeveloped. In these open spaces a large number of villages are scattered, where aboriginal natives live. Relatively recently, an amazing village was created here - Layamanu.

About 700 people live here. Layamanu is located 550 kilometers from the nearest city. There are no normal roads, so those who want to get to the village are forced to make a rather dangerous journey through the wild, outback. Once a week, a truck delivers groceries to the village's only store, and electricity comes from several solar panels and one generator. The village itself has a rather tragic history. It was created in 1948 by the Australian government in an attempt to resettle too densely populated areas. The first settlers were not volunteers, they were forcibly resettled, however, those who wanted to return to civilization were able to do so.

Only in 1970 did the village begin to resemble something similar to a normal community. And in 2013, the village attracted the attention of linguists because of the language formed there.

Cases of the extinction of a language are not so rare, but the formation of a new one is of interest. Layamanu's children began to speak a completely new language, with different dialects and rules. It began when adults communicated with their children in a mixture of their native language - Walbiri - with English, along with several others. Linguists have been fascinated by the development of this new language, as it is neither a creole nor a mixture of words and rules from other vernaculars. The new language is spoken by those under 35 years old, linguists attribute its emergence to the remoteness of the settlement.

2. Baktia, Siberia

About 300 people live in this Siberian village, which gives a new meaning to the word "remote". There is no running water, no telephone, no immediate access to hospitals or other medical care. The whole area is covered with ice and snow, which recedes only for a few months of the year - the rest of the time the temperature is below zero. You can get there only by boat or helicopter, and then, if the weather allows.

Families living in sub-zero temperatures in Siberia became the heroes of the documentary film Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. The footage filmed by the director, who lived in the village for a year, shows a way of life that has not changed in several hundred years. These people have a close connection to the land, they rely on their dogs for hunting and survival, hunting, fishing, and farming for a living. Today, their lives have been made easier by chainsaws and snowmobiles, but otherwise their way of life, their values, are closer to our ancestors than ours.

This is a way of life that looks completely alien to modern man, when the longer and colder nights indicate that now the main problem for these people is survival.

All this seems wild to the Western world, for which the most pressing problems are connecting digital television and choosing dishes for dinner. In Bactia, the inhabitants store large stocks during the summer to last through the endless days of winter darkness.

1. Palmerston, Cook Islands

It is called "The Island at the End of the Earth".

Palmerston in the Cook Islands is visited twice a year by a supply ship. About 60 people live here, all of them descendants of the first settler - William Masters, who settled on the island in 1863. He left his first wife and two children in England, struck up relationships with three Polynesian women and made Palmerston his home. By the time he died in 1899 he had 17 children and 54 grandchildren. Now the number of his descendants is in the thousands, but only a few remained to live on this paradise island.

The island has two telephones and even Internet access - but only for 4 hours a day. There is also electricity, but also only for a couple of hours a day. Its location on maps was accurately described in 1969, and even today it can take several days to get there by boat on rough seas.

Palmerston is one of a group of islands connected by a coral reef, which brought a lot of trouble to sailors. Officially, this is the territory of New Zealand, but in fact it is run by one family, which annually receives a fairly large number of brave tourists who decide to take this trip. The islanders need money only for contacts with the "outside world". They don't use them among themselves. They get them by exporting coconut oil - a product of coconut palms, which were planted by Masters.

The central street of the settlement, in its essence, is a simple strip of sand.

The material was prepared by Lidia Svezhentseva

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Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, or as the locals call it (there are 264 of them according to the latest census) Settlement is considered one of the most isolated settlements on the planet. It is clear why: the nearest settlement is 1850 km by sea! It is located in the Tristan de Cunha archipelago, which is part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena.

The city was named after Alfred (the second son of Queen Victoria), the Prince of Edinburgh, who once visited it in 1867 on his frigate Galatea. The fastest way to get here is a six-day journey by sea from the coast of South Africa. The village has the only port on the island, where every few months a ship comes from Cape Town to George Town (Ascension Island).

Whittier (Alaska, USA)

Although the city has a deep water port, a railroad terminal, and an airstrip, it is accessible via Portage Glacier's only highway through the Anton Anderson Tunnel. There are 220 permanent residents in the city, all of whom live in a 14-story army barracks built in 1956. The building, called Begich Towers, houses a police station, a health clinic, a church, and a laundry. Whittier's climate is not the most pleasant: most of the year it rains or snows and strong winds blow.

City of Stars (Villa Las Estrellas, Antarctica)

The city, by the way, the largest in all of Antarctica, is located at the Chilean research station named after Eduardo Frei Montalva and at the same time a military base on King George Island. In summer, 120 people live here. And in winter - 80. Nevertheless, the city has its own gym, church, post office and souvenir shop for tourists. There is also the Internet in the city of stars, but it is available only at a school where there are as many as three computers.

La Rinconada (Peru)

The city, located at an altitude of 2400 km in the Peruvian Andes, in the permafrost zone, is the highest mountain settlement on Earth and is also considered one of those places where, despite mercury-contaminated soil, lack of drinking water and other inconveniences, about 50,000 people live here . The reason for such popularity was the recent discovery of a gold mine near the city. You can get to La Rinconada only by mountain road, and the journey will take more than one day. Every year, the city produces from two to ten tons of gold per year.

Supai Village (Arizona, USA)

You can get to the Supai Indian Reservation, located in the Havasu Canyon, only by helicopter or by a 13-kilometer trail. Despite this, many tourists come here every year, 208 people live permanently in Supai.

Coober Pedy (Australia)

The town owes its name, which is translated from the language of the Australian Aborigines as "White Man's Hole", primarily to the fact that the world's largest deposit (and hence mines) of opals is located here. Although the first houses of white settlers were also underground due to constant sandstorms (Coober Pedy is located on the border with the Victoria Desert). Today, ordinary underground dwellings have been added to the traditional ones, but locals are happy to go to an underground bar, visit an underground art gallery and pray in an underground church. 1695 people live in the city, and the nearest settlement is 500 kilometers away.

Longyearbyen (Shipzbergen, Norway)

The administrative center of Svalbard, located on the shores of the Advient Fjord, the northernmost city in the world, is located on the 79th parallel, 1320 km from the North Pole. Initially, it served a coal mine opened here at the beginning of the 20th century by the American John Longyear. 3,000 people live here, and a third of them are foreigners. On the streets you can see a sign with a polar bear and the inscription "Everywhere". True, in recent years, due to warming, bears come here infrequently. Here is the northernmost church in the world. However, the airport, hotels, university are also the northernmost in the world. The city has a very low crime rate, as living in Loggerbyen and not working is prohibited by local laws. Dying here, however, is also prohibited, because due to low temperatures the body cannot decompose.

Palmerston Island

The Palmerston Coral Atoll is located in the Pacific Ocean about 3,200 km from the nearest "mainland" - New Zealand. It belongs to the same family - the descendants of William Masters and his three wives. Masters accidentally came to the atoll in 1860 and founded a settlement here. Masters had 17 children. Currently, about 1000 of his descendants live on the islands of the Pacific archipelago, in Australia and New Zealand, but a part continues to live on Palmerston. All descendants of William Masters speak perfect English with a Gloucestershire accent. There are no shops on the island, local residents do not use money among themselves, and essential goods are exchanged for fish. You can do this twice a year. When a ship comes to Palmerston from New Zealand. In addition, about a dozen tourist ships come here every year.
The city of Kedrovy rarely appears on the pages of tourist guides. It would probably be more accurate to say "never". This is a small settlement in the Tomsk region in the Chuzik river valley. And when we say “small”, we really mean this: Kedrovy is one of the smallest cities in terms of population in Russia. The first houses appeared here in 1982, and Kedrovy received the status of a city in 1987. Workers of the oil refinery live here. The Kedrovy airport burned down in 2006, and since then the city has no regular communication with the outside world. You can get to Kedrovy (or get out of it) by helicopter or along the 221-kilometer winter road.

Lost on the border of Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, the Ukok plateau is not accidentally called a calm zone, since it is isolated from the outside world by a mountain range from almost all sides. This plateau belongs to those territories, the landscape of which has practically not changed since the last Ice Age.
You can get here only by SUV, only in July-August, since the rest of the time the passes are covered with a deep layer of snow. However, even in the summer months, the plateau does not always let travelers in: due to the abundant snowmelt, access roads are very washed out.
There is practically no snow on the plateau itself - strong winds blow it into ravines and hollows. The area is deserted and only occasionally a shepherd wanders here in search of pastures for livestock.

Rub al Khali desert

The Rub al-Khali Desert in Saudi Arabia is recognized as the largest area on the planet covered with sand. Its area exceeds France, Belgium and the Netherlands combined. Many desperate travelers dream of conquering the vast desert expanses, while for the Bedouins the “abode of silence” is a formidable and frightening element. The mesmerizing beauty of these places does not excite the nomads - they are more concerned about whether they can get to the next oasis.

Woe to the traveler who got lost in the sands of Rub al-Khali: 300-meter dunes stretching for hundreds of kilometers and sweltering heat can kill even the most courageous traveler.
During one of the recent expeditions, scientists managed to find 31 species of plants and 24 species of birds in the desert. But for researchers it is still a mystery how living organisms could adapt to such harsh climatic conditions.

Amazonian selva

Despite intensive deforestation, the Amazon Selva still remains the largest patch of rainforest on earth. If the Amazon itself and many of its tributaries have been studied, then the impenetrable jungle occupying thousands of square kilometers is a solid white spot. Giant trees grow so close to each other that it is not possible to see the area from an airplane. Few people dared to conquer the dense and dangerous jungle.
However, more recently, Brazilian scientists were able to look inside the Amazon rainforest. Near one of the tributaries of the Amazon - the Zhavari River, they discovered an unknown Indian tribe. Areas of cleared forest allowed the discovery to be made. Enlarged photographs obtained as a result of aerial photography showed the economy of the natives: thatched dwellings, baskets of cassava and papaya, as well as primitive tools. Judging by the reaction to a flying plane, this is a spectacle for the local tribe a curiosity.

Tepui Guiana Highlands

In that part of the Guiana Highlands, which is located on the territory of Venezuela, there are amazing rock formations - mesas or tepui, which became the prototype of Conan Doyle's "lost world". Tepui have been studied relatively recently, since for an unprepared person to get to them, and even more so to climb, is an extremely difficult and dangerous undertaking.
Now the highest of the table mountains - Roraima, which the first expedition stormed for a whole month, is already available for tourists. With others, scientists are just getting to know each other. The Sierra Neblin tepui turned out to be a real sensation. Scientists have discovered a huge number of endemic plants and animals here: among them are frogs that hatch their offspring like birds and giant ants that can gnaw through small branches with their jaws.

Dry valleys of Antarctica

On the seemingly completely covered with snow and ice Antarctica there is a dry place - the McMurdo Valley. Here, for mercy, 8 thousand square meters. km. almost 2 million years there was no precipitation. Powerful Katabatic winds, the speed of which reaches 320 km / h, and rocky spurs make this place almost inaccessible to humans.
In the absence of snow, temperatures of -50°C seem extremely cold. It is not surprising that in this place there is no life except for some types of bacteria.
However, people rarely come here. Since 2004, NASA has been using the Dry Valleys to test descent spacecraft, as the conditions in these places are as close to Martian as possible.

Irian Jaya

Indonesian-owned West Papua, also called Irian Jaya, is one of the most isolated places from civilization, despite the fact that it is less than 1000 km from Australia. Here life flows as well as several hundred years ago: pristine nature and primitive tribes are not very happy with strangers.
Getting to Irian Jaya takes a few tiring flights, but getting deeper into its heart of virgin highland forests, which is a real paradise for zoologists and botanists, requires more than good physical shape. Not everyone can breathe humid and stuffy air all day long, wander through swamps and bogs through an overhanging canopy of vegetation.
Papuan tribes live in the remote highlands, who a few decades ago hunted by cannibalism and did not suspect the existence of a “other” world. Here, in the jungles of West Papua, in November 1961, the trail of Michael Rockefeller was lost.

Tibetan plateau

Tibet is one of the most remote places on the planet from the oceans. It is here, according to European scientists, that the most isolated land area from civilization is the Tibetan Plateau. The researchers calculated the time needed to get from the plateau to the nearest major settlement. The results showed that the journey to Lhasa takes about three weeks: one day by car and another 20 days on foot. The Swedish traveler Sven Hedin, who visited the Tibetan Plateau, did not meet a single person there in 81 days.