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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan The President of Turkmenistan calls for an end to one of the country’s most remarkable but hellish sites, the blazing natural gas crater widely referred to as the “Gates of Hell.”
The desert crater located about 260 kilometers (160 miles) north of the capital, Ashgabat, has been burning for decades and is a popular sight for the small number of tourists who come to Turkmenistan, a country where it is difficult to travel. enter.
The Turkmen news site Turkmenportal said a gas drilling collapse in 1971 formed the crater, which is about 60 meters (190 feet) in diameter and 20 meters (70 feet) deep. To prevent the gas from spreading, geologists started a fire, expecting the gas to burn in a few weeks.
The spectacular but unwelcome fire that has since burned down is so famous that state television showed President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov driving around it in an all-terrain truck in 2019.
But Berdymukhamedov ordered his government to look for ways to put out the blaze as it is causing ecological damage and affecting the health of people living in the region, state newspaper Neitralny Turkmenistan reported on Saturday.
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