Rarely has Turkmenistan better deserved its reputation as an inaccessible and strange country than in this photograph of a refreshment bar on the edge of the ‘Gate of Hell’ ( Darvaza gas crater).

Photo credits : Anton Pfaller (Germany, @apr_jnr)

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