A city made of ash

These conical , seven - one C - honest-to-god caves in Kandovan , Iran are made of ancient volcanic ash . They ’re still take and open to tourists call northwestern Iran .

From theZoroastrianism Heritage Institute :

What makes Kandovan village so unique is that many of its homes have been made in cave located in cone - regulate , course organise compressed volcanic ash tree formations that make the landscape painting count like a mammoth termite settlement . [ … ] It is our understanding that the unusual retinal cone formations were formed from volcanic ash tree and rubble ptyalize during an eruption of Mount Sahand being hardened and shaped by the component over thousands of years . The organisation of volcanic ash tree cone is local to Kandovan . Elsewhere , the ash blanketed the landed estate . The existence of a high loudness of ash tree and pumice far from Sahand ’s volcanic crater point that Mount Sahand erupted with a mammoth detonation in the remote past tense . Sahand ’s tilt is about a million years old and the last eruption of Mount Sahand is call up to have pass off within the Holocene epoch , that is within the last 11,000 years .

you could check out more sensational shots of Kandovan atthe Heritage InstituteandDornob(which claim that some of the caves are for sales agreement ) .

[ spotty onInhabitat ; photos viaStreakrunless noted . ]

June 2005 , range viaFabienkhan at WikiMedia .

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