These fiery fortresses, or Yangi-Kala, are canyons in the mountains of Turkmenistan. At sunset, the intense colours of white, yellow, ochre, violet and red enliven the cliffs sculpted by the winds and rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bottom of the canyons was once occupied by the highly saline Kara-Bogaz-Gol <\/a><\/strong>lagoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Credits : Eleonora Sacco<\/strong> (@painderoute<\/a><\/strong>, Italy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Find all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These fiery fortresses, or Yangi-Kala, are canyons in the mountains of Turkmenistan. At sunset, the intense colours of white, yellow, ochre, violet and red enliven the cliffs sculpted by the winds and rains. The bottom of the canyons was once occupied by the highly saline Kara-Bogaz-Gol lagoon. Credits : Eleonora Sacco (@painderoute, Italy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":46723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2415,4285,4002,691],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-46722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-canyon","tag-desertification-2","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-turkmenistan-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46726,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46722\/revisions\/46726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46722"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}