Chamber of Secrets

Seeking more than your ability is not bad, but if it causes harm, take it to mind.

Just the watch the movie in Sies Para Uno at the embedded video below:

Just enjoy watching😊

5.) Varosha

Varosha is a ghost town. In the 1970s, this town was one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world, home to 40,000 people. To go with the flow of all the new tourists, many high-rise buildings and hotels became available. Elizabeth Taylor and many other celebrities visited the town. The rich and famous flocked to its vibrant lifestyle and perfect beaches by the dozens.

Now, many of the buildings are falling apart. Plants are taking root in walls and pavement. Sea turtles are nesting on its deserted beaches. Trees are sprouting through living rooms.

Varosha’s inhabitants fled during the Turkish invasion in 1974. The Turkish took control of the town, and it is still abandoned to this day.

No one from the public can step foot inside. The only people allowed access are Turkish military and United Nations’ staff. Soldiers must obey orders to shoot on-sight anyone who tries to breach its gates. No photos and movies allowed.

If you were to take a peek at the town now, you would see car dealerships still stocked with 1974 cars. A city frozen-in-time.

Miles of sand where it’s just you and nature. Dozens of grand hotels where you’ll have the pick of the rooms.Just remember to pack your bolt cutters to make a hole in the fence – and watch out for the army patrols with orders to shoot on sight.
Before the division of Cyprus in 1974, Varosha – a resort in Famagusta – was booming. The rich and famous were drawn by some of the best beaches on the island. Richard Burton and Brigitte Bardot all dropped by – the Argo Hotel on JFK Avenue was said to be Elizabeth Taylor’s favourite. “Anyone who comes from Varosha has a romanticised notion of it,” says Vasia Markides, 34, an American Greek-Cypriot whose mother grew up there. “They talk about it being the hub of art and intellectual activity. They describe it as the French Riviera of Cyprus.” But 40 years ago, after years of inter-ethnic violence culminating in a coup inspired by Greece’s ruling military junta, Turkey invaded Cyprus and occupied the northern third of the island. As its troops approached Varosha, a Greek-Cypriot community, the inhabitants fled, intending to return when the situation calmed down. However, the resort was fenced off by the Turkish military and has been a ghost town ever since. A UN resolution of 1984 calls for the handover of Varosha to UN control and prohibits any attempt to resettle it by anyone other than those who were forced out. One of them was Markides’ mother Emily – she had just got married and her wedding presents were still in the attic when they abandoned the family home. Others tell stories of pots left cooking on stoves, of lives stopped in mid-frame.

The idea is for Varosha to become a model for green technologies. “We need to pay attention to the signs that nature is giving us,” says Markides, referring to the way nature has reclaimed the town. “It’s about using the energy of the sun – that we have so much of in Cyprus – rather than relying on fossil fuels. The project launches in January 2014 when Markides will begin making a documentary film about the effort to turn the Famagusta region into a thriving eco-city. It kicks off on 16 January with an architectural design studio overlooking the ghost city, where local and international experts will begin planning a sustainable future. “It is a delicate issue”, says Fiona Mullen, an economist and part of the Famagusta Ecocity Project. “While it is true that it would make a very big difference to how Greek Cypriots view Turkey, the Turks and Turkish Cypriots have always worried that if they gave back Varosha, the Greek Cypriots might just “pocket” it, and not give anything in return.” So the longstanding position of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots is that Varosha forms part of a comprehensive settlement past proposals have included re-opening ports and airports in the north.

4.) Niihau, Hawaiian

Niihau, Hawaiian Ni‘ihau, volcanic island, Kauai county, Hawaii, U.S. Niihau lies 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Kauai island. The smallest of the populated Hawaiian Islands, Niihau has an area of 70 square miles (180 square km). King Kamehameha IV sold it for $10,000 in 1863 to Elizabeth Sinclair of Scotland. Her descendants, the Kamaaina (meaning “Old-Timer”) Robinson family, continue to live on the island and have attempted to preserve Hawaiian culture there. Residency on Niihau is restricted to Hawaiians, and tourism is prohibited; in 1959 it was the only island to vote against statehood. Although English is taught, Hawaiian is the preferred language. Niihau is mostly arid lowland, which supports sheep and cattle ranching. The U.S. Navy uses the island for weapons testing. The chief village, Puuwai, is on the west coast. None of Hawaii’s treasured shorelines are quite as untouched as those of Ni‘ihau, known to locals and foreigners as the “Forbidden Island.” Even though it’s so close to modern civilization, in 2018, there are still no roads or running water, and the village runs solely on solar-powered electricity. On Ni‘ihau, islanders speak their traditional dialect of Hawaiian, and the entire island operates in a completely self-sustainable way by growing, foraging, and hunting for their own food. This island, free of the restrictions of modern time, has earned a respectable spot on every curious traveler’s map, due in most part to its shroud of mystery.

Niihau’s transition to the “Forbidden Island” began in 1864 when Scottish widower Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair purchased the island from Hawaiian monarch, King Kamehameha IV, for $10,000 in gold, for ranching purposes. “My great-grandmother purchased the island from the monarchy and it’s been virtually unchanged since that date by my family,” Bruce Robinson, the great-grandson of Eliza Sinclair, reported. “We’ve tried to maintain the request of the King when it was turned over. We maintain the island for the people and continue to work it as he had.” King Kamehameha IV had actually offered Sinclair better real estate, which included an area from downtown Honolulu to Diamond Head in Waikiki, but Sinclair saw the island as a lush alternative for her large family since they had relocated from New Zealand. Kamehameha IV reportedly had one request for Sinclair: “Niihau is yours. But the day may come when Hawaiians are not as strong in Hawaii as they are now. When that day comes, please do what you can to help them.

Sinclair and her descendants, the Robinsons, have done their best to honor the king’s request. They rejected the colonization of the Hawaiian islands by westerners, especially when in 1893 the Americans ousted the indigenous monarchy and banned the Hawaiian language.

Niihau has since taken up a relationship with the U.S. military, which actually began in World War II when a Japanese fighter pilot crash-landed on the island only to be killed by the Niihauans. Keith Robinson added that today: “We’re doing national defense work that’s critical to our country. Technology for the DEW [Distant Early Warning] Line was developed secretly [during the Cold War era] on Niihaua.”

3.) Caño Cristales

Caño Cristales is a river located in the Serrenia de la Macerana region of Columbia. This isn’t just any river, it has been referred to as and “The Most Beautiful River in the World.” For much of the year it looks just the same as any other river, but for a short amount of time between September and November – in the transition period between wet and dry seasons – it transforms into a wash of color. The reds, pinks, blues, greens and yellows that adorn the river are actually unique types of flora growing on the riverbed.

or most of the year, Caño Cristales is indistinguishable from any other river: a bed of rocks covered in dull green mosses are visible below a cool, clear current.

However, for a brief period of time every year, the river blossoms in a vibrant explosion of colors. During the short span between the wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right, a unique species of plant that lines the river floor called Macarenia clavigera turns a brilliant red. It is offset by splotches of yellow and green sand, blue water, and a thousand shades in between.

This only happens for a brief period between seasons. During Colombia’s wet season, the water flows too fast and deep, obscuring the bottom of the river and denying the Macarenia clavigera the sun that it needs to turn red. During the dry season, there is not enough water to support the dazzling array of life in the river. But for a few weeks from September through November, the river transforms into a veritable living rainbow.

Caño Cristales is located in a remote, isolated area not easily accessible by road. Adventurous tourists can now fly into the nearby town of La Macarena. From there it is a short trip to “Serrania de la Macarena,” the national park in which Caño Cristales is located.

The site was effectively closed to tourists for several years because of guerrilla activity in the region along with concerns about the impact of unregulated tourist traffic. It was reopened to visitors in 2009, and today there are several Colombian Tourist Agencies that will fly travelers to La Macarena. From there, they must make their way to the river site on horseback (or donkeyback) and by foot as part of a guided tour. Visitors are not permitted to stay overnight or cook.

Swimming is permitted only in designated areas. Swimmers mustn’t wear a sunscreen as to not destroy the fragile ecosystem.

For perfect photographs, check the weather forecast, because when it’s cloudy, the sun rays do not illuminate the river so the colors are not that vivid. If there was no rain for a while, the water levels drop killing the fragile plants and turning the color from bright red to brownish.

Caño Cristales is a famous river in Colombia known as the “river of five colors”, which is also considered by many to be “the most beautiful river in the world”. The river has also been called the “liquid rainbow”.

During several months each year, Caño Cristales becomes a rainbow of vibrant colors including red, green, yellow, blue and black hues in a natural display that reportedly happens nowhere else on Earth.

Several readers on the Medellín Guru website asked about Caño Cristales and when is the best time to go. So, I wrote this up-to-date guide to Caño Cristales with plenty of time to plan for the next season that starts in June this year.

Caño Cristales is located in the Serrania de la Macarena National Park, which is located in the Meta department of Colombia. In addition, Caño Cristales is a tributary of the Guayabero River.

Serranía de la Macarena is a protected national park in Colombia that covers 2,500 square miles. The Serranía de la Macarena park is located where three large ecosystems in Colombia meet, each of them with a high diversity of flora and fauna: the Amazon rainforest, the Andes mountain range and the savannah plains of the East Llanos.

Serranía de La Macarena is considered one of the most biodiverse areas of Colombia. It reportedly is home to over 500 species of birds, 100 species of reptiles, over 2,000 species of plants and over 1,200 species of insects.

Until the mid-2000s, nearby guerrilla activity rendered this part of Colombia almost completely inaccessible, as it was considered an area that was too dangerous. But the military took back control of the area several years ago and it’s now generally considered safe. And it has become a growing ecotourism destination.

2.) Area 51

In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there’s a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area 51. It’s protected by little more than a chain link fence, a boom gate, and intimidating trespassing signs. One would think that America’s much mythicized top secret military base would be under closer guard, but make no mistake. They are watching.

Beyond the gate, cameras see every angle. On the distant hilltop, there’s a white pickup truck with a tinted windshield peering down on everything below. Locals says the base knows every desert tortoise and jackrabbit that hops the fence. Others claim there are embedded sensors in the approaching road.

What exactly goes on inside of Area 51 has led to decades of wild speculation. There are, of course, the alien conspiracies that galactic visitors are tucked away somewhere inside. One of the more colorful rumors insists the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was actually a Soviet aircraft piloted by mutated midgets and the wreckage remains on the grounds of Area 51. Some even believe that the U.S. government filmed the 1969 moon landing in one of the base’s hangars.

For all the myths and legends, what’s true is that Area 51 is real and still very active. There may not be aliens or a moon landing movie set inside those fences, but something is going on and only a select few are privy to what’s happening further down that closely-monitored wind-swept Nevada road. “The forbidden aspect of Area 51 is what makes people want to know what’s there,” says aerospace historian and author Peter Merlin who’s been researching Area 51 for more than three decades.

In the early 1950s, U.S. Navy and Air Force sent low-flying aircraft on reconnaissance missions over the USSR, but they were at constant risk of being shot down. In November 1954, President Eisenhower approved the secret development of a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft called the U-2 program. One of the first orders of business was to track down a remote, covert location for training and testing. They found it in the southern Nevada desert near a salt flat known as Groom Lake, which had once been a World War II aerial gunnery range for Army Air Corps pilots.

Known by its map designation as Area 51, this middle-of-nowhere site became a new top-secret military base. To convince workers to come, Kelly Johnson, one of the leading engineers of the U-2 project, gave it a more enticing name: Paradise Ranch.

Area 51, secret U.S. Air Force military installation located at Groom Lake in southern Nevada. It is administered by Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. The installation has been the focus of numerous conspiracies involving extraterrestrial life, though its only confirmed use is as a flight testing facility.

For years there was speculation about the installation, especially amid growing reports of UFO sightings in the vicinity. The site became known as Area 51, which was its designation on maps of the Atomic Energy Commission. Conspiracy theories gained support in the late 1980s, when a man alleging to have worked at the installation claimed that the government was examining recovered alien spacecraft.

In 2013 the U.S. government officially acknowledged the existence of Area 51. That year the National Security Archive at the George Washington University obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) a formerly classified CIA document that chronicled the history of the U-2 spy plane; a heavily redacted version had previously been released in 1998. According to the report, in 1955 the remote site—which included an airfield not used by the military since World War II—was selected in order to test the U-2. Test flights of that spy plane, and subsequent aircraft, accounted for many of the UFO sightings in the area; the U-2 could reach altitudes much higher than any other planes at the time. After the U-2 was put into service in 1956, Area 51 was used to develop other aircraft, including the A-12 (also known as OXCART) reconnaissance plane and the stealth fighter F-117 Nighthawk.

1.) Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages. But although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-traveled sections of the ocean. In fact, people navigate the area every day without incident.

William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermuda shipwreck, may have enhanced the area’s aura of mystery. Nonetheless, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public’s attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred in March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage.

A pattern allegedly began forming in which vessels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then, in December 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunctioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, got severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared.

n all probability, however, there is no single theory that solves the mystery. As one skeptic put it, trying to find a common cause for every Bermuda Triangle disappearance is no more logical than trying to find a common cause for every automobile accident in Arizona. Moreover, although storms, reefs and the Gulf Stream can cause navigational challenges there, maritime insurance leader Lloyd’s of London does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an especially hazardous place. Neither does the U.S. Coast Guard, which says: “In a review of many aircraft and vessel losses in the area over the years, there has been nothing discovered that would indicate that casualties were the result of anything other than physical causes.

4.) Hitachi Seaside Park (Ibaraki, Japan)
This beauty is located northeast of Tokyo within the Kanto Plain. A vast hectare with a variety of flowers in every palette. Definitely the place where flower enthusiast can call paradise. (Mind you, this is just less than two hours away from Tokyo).
Overview
Covering an area of 190 hectares, the park features blooming flowers around the year.[1] The park has become known for its baby blue-eyes flowers, with the blooming of 4.5 million of the translucent-petaled blue flowers in the spring drawing tourists. In addition to the annual “Nemophila Harmony”, the park features a million daffodils, 170 varieties of tulips, and many other flowers. The park includes cycling trails and a small amusement park with a Ferris wheel..
History of Hitachi Seaside Park
Located on the Pacific Ocean side of the Japanese coast, the Hitachi Seaside Park is home to an abundance of colorful flowers including the Nemophila and the Kochia. The Nemophila is also known as Baby Blue Eyes as it takes after the color of the sky when in full bloom. Kochia, on the other hand, is known as the Broom Grass. It is named such since the plant is used to make brooms.
The 350-hectare park not only boasts of beautiful greeneries, but it also has an amusement park, BMX and cycling tracks, and cafes and restaurants, among others.
Pleasure Garden
Pleasure Garden is where the amusement park rides are located. The giant Ferris wheel known as the Flower Ring is one of the main attractions of the garden. The amusement park also features at least 25 other rides such as the Family Banana Coaster and the Disk-O.
Watch the flowers bloom
Explore the Hitachi Seaside Park’s natural beauty and the variety of plants and flowers it offers through its gardens: the Miharashi no Oka (Miharasahi Hill), the Suisen Garden (Narcissus Garden), the Tamago no Mori Flower Garden (Eggs Forest Flower Garden), and the Hitachi Rose Garden.
Rest and dine
Take a rest and enjoy the food at any of the restaurants and cafes that Hitachi Seaside Park has to offer like the Lake Side Cafe, Glass House, Kinen no Mori Rest House, Garden Restaurant, and the Mori no huwahuwa Crepe Shop. Visitors can also enjoy their barbecues at the BBQ Plaza.
Best time to visit Hitachi Seaside Park
The park is open on the following days of the seasons:
• Spring: March 26th to May 31st
• Summer: July 21th to August 31st
• Fall: October 1st to October 31st
• Winter: December 25th to December 31st
Visiting guidelines
■ Some rides in the Pleasure Garden have age and height restrictions.
■ Baby strollers and wheelchairs are available for FREE.
■ First aid offices are available at the Central Entrance, Seabreeze Entrance, and the Park Administrative Office.
■ Pets are allowed as long as they are on leashes, but do note that there are facilities where pets cannot enter.
■ Bat, remodeling bicycle, monocycle, roller skates, skateboards, kickboards, and large tents are not allowed inside the park.
■ Drones are prohibited.
■ Don’t step over the garden fencing.
How to get there
Hitachi Seaside Park is accessible by train, bus, and car.
■ Via train
Take the JR Joban Line from Central Tokyo going to Katsuta Station. This will take about 80 minutes. Then, ride the bus going to the park which takes about 15 minutes.
■ Via bus
There are direct highway buses from Tokyo Station that stops at Hitachi Seaside Park, but it is infrequent and a one-way ride will take around two and a half hours.

4.) Crooked Forest in Szczecin, Poland
A bizarre wide array of crooked trees can be found near the town of Gryfino in Western Poland. Where trees are slightly tilted in the most weird structure. The Crooked Forest has around 400 pine trees that grow trees with a 90-degree bend from their root. Some say that the reason behind the 90-degree bend of the trees is a gravitational pull within the area.
So what exactly is the Crooked Forest? An unexplained phenomenon that’s what. For some unknown reason, a small forest by the Oder River grew in an exceptionally bizarre manner during the 20th century. The pine trees were all planted in the 1930s and as you can see below, have all grown in a warped and curvy way. I take the name Crooked to have a double meaning: Firstly they are crooked in the wonky sense, but they also kind of look like shepherd’s crooks.
I’ve read multiple reasons theorised for why the trees have grown the way they have. One is that the trees were stunted by an exceptionally heavy snowstorm, causing them to warp. Other theories involve the trees being deliberately shaped by humans to creative curved timber. I’d actually thought it had something to do with World War I and tanks rolling over them and bending them in the process before learning of the timing. But who knows, there’s apparently no consensus as of yet.
The Mystery of Crooked of Forest in Szczecin, Poland
In Poland’s Krzywy Las, or Crooked Forest, the pine trees look like potbellied stick figures. On some 400 trees, the trunks buckle out 90 degrees, creating bark-covered bellies that drag just above the earth, oddly, all pointing in the same direction — north.

No one knows for certain what caused this unusual stand of trees in a protected forest, just outside the town of Gryfino, Poland. The town was mostly destroyed during World War II, and the truth of the forest was lost with it.

Strangely bent trees exist in other parts of the world, but not in such great numbers nor as neatly arranged as in Poland’s Crooked Forest. You can visit this little patch of land in northwest Poland any time, but the cusp of spring is the perfect chance to see the trees in winter’s bare-boned attire, without its bitter temperatures.

The pine trees, thought to have been planted in the early 1930s, bend at the trunks, and some extend outward around three to nine feet before zipping back up into the air. The trees — around 50 feet high at their tallest — were probably damaged at an early age, causing them to permanently grow this way. But how?
“As to an explanation, that is not so easy,” said William Remphrey, a retired plant scientist from the University of Manitoba, who discovered a genetic mutation causing a group of aspen trees in Canada to curve and droop consistently over development, resulting in gnarled, twirly, Cheeto-esque trees.
If the cause for Poland’s crooked forest were genetic, he said, he would expect the curves to continue beyond the base, as they do in the aspens he studied. But given their smoothness, something environmental most likely caused these sweeping curves.
It’s possible that a heavy snowfall covered the trees and continued to weigh them down through spring, when buds sprouted up and grew from the snow-covered trunk. But this wouldn’t explain the straight pines that surround this patch of bent ones.
The prevailing hypothesis is that farmers manipulated the trees in the 1930s to use their bent wood for furniture or ship building, but that the war prevented them from following through.

3.) Enchanting River (Hinatuan River) in Surigao del Sur, Philippines
The Philippines is slowly showcasing its beauty one island after the other. Islands like Boracay, Palawan and Siargao. But the country offers you more that what Google can show. Tucked in behind the rocky mountains of a small province called Surigao Del Sur lies a fairy-tale like river that will surely make you think twice if its real or not.

DAVAO CITY, 12 January 2018. Mention Surigao del Sur and what comes to your mind? Nothing except that it is located at the eastern coast of Mindanao and faces the Philippine Sea.

Get a book on Philippines and its tourist destinations, and Surigao del Sur is mentioned only briefly. Carlos M. Libosada, Jr. wrote this brief information in his 210-page book, Domestic Tourism: “The terrain is characterized by hilly ranges and an irregular coastline. Just offshore is the Philippine Trench, which is the second deepest part of the ocean with a depth of 10,057 meters. The northeast tradewinds prevail almost year-round, particularly during the dry season. Strong winds occur during the rainy season, but these could hardly be considered storms.”

To think of, the province has two of the most unique tourist destinations in the country: the Tinuy-an Falls in barangay Burboanan of Bislig City and the Enchanted River which shapes the boundary of barangays Talisay and Cambatong in Hinatuan.

Legends
The river’s unusual colors and unexplored depths has inspired various local legends. One story tell of fairies that added the colors of sapphire and jade to the river to make its unique shade. Local fisherfolk also report seeing fish in the river that cannot be caught through any means. According to locals, the river was called the Enchanted River because of the engkantos that dwell there.[ Their legends also say that the river is haunted by supernatural beings which act as its protectors.

Exploration
The first exploration to the cave of the Hinatuan Enchanted River was made by Alex Santos in 1999. The major exploration to the cave system started eleven years later when a group of three cave divers led by Dr. Alfonso Amores with team members Bernil Gastardo and Emgee Guillermo entered the cave in February 2010. The major exploration led to the discovery of a hidden cave opening at 30 metres (98 ft) depth. Succeeding expeditions have been made that led to the discovery of the underwater cave’s chamber. During its sixth expedition on June 17, 2014, Dr. Amores perished after failing to exit the narrow entrance to the cave due to a cardiac arrest at 40 metres (130 ft) depth inside the narrow tunnel to the Mayor’s Chamber of the cave in the Hinatuan Enchanted River.

Explorations have continued in March 2015 aiming to discover its unexplored area beyond its 82 metres (269 ft) depth and is now led by Bernil Gastardo under contract with GIZ, University of San Carlos-Biology Department, and DENR-BMB under the project Hinatuan Enchanted River Underwater Cave System Rapid Source Assessment (HERUCS). Beginning on March 20, a collaborative 5-day assessment and mapping of the ecosystem was conducted by the University of San Carlos and the Filipino Cave Divers (FCD).

How to get to Enchanted River from Manila
Manila City to Butuan City
The fastest route to Enchanted River is via Butuan Airport. Book a flight from Manila to Butuan. The Philippine based budget airline Cebu Pacific has 3 flights daily from Manila to Butuan. Alternatively, you may also book your Butuan flight via Philippine Airlines. Travel time is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Butuan City to Hinatuan (Surigao del Sur)
By bus – From Bancasi airport, just locate the multicabs in the area and tell the driver that you are going to Butuan bus terminal. Fare is 10 Php per person. In Butuan terminal, ride a bus (Bachelor bus lines) bound to Bislig. Just tell the driver to drop you off the Hinatuan terminal. Bus fare is approximately 200 Php and travel time is 5 to 7 hours.

By van – Walk few meters from the Bancasi airport’s departure area and you will find vans bound to several municipalities and cities. Just look for the van headed to Bislig or ask the driver if the van is passing through Hinatuan Terminal. Fare is 350 Php and travel time is approximately 4 to 5 hours.

Hinatuan Terminal to Enchanted River
In Hinatuan terminal, habal-habal drivers will approach you and offer their service to Enchanted River. A two-way trip from Hinatuan terminal to Enchanted River costs 300 Php good for 2 persons. Habal-habal travel time to Enchanted River from Hinatuan terminal is approximately 30 minutes.

2.) Lake at Jiuzhaigou National Park (China)
Get a glimpse of this 1375-metre-long crystal turquoise lake in China. It’s hard to believe that this lake is in one of the most populated cities in the world and it has this lake tucked in among the Min Mountains near the Tibetan Plateau. This lake deserves attention that UNESCO turned the place into a World Heritage site in 1992.

Jiuzhaigou Valley is located in the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, north of Sichuan Province in China. This land features perennially snow-capped mountain peaks, verdant and lush forest, stretches of serene lakes, and various birds and animals, all contributing to the unique view of Jiuzhaigou Valley. Upon entering the resort, you will find yourself strolling in a fairyland, leaving behind nothing but earthly troubles and vexations. It is a world of water. Water brings Jiuzhaigou Valley its most enchanting views, which is the soul of the place. Whether you are met with serene lakes or plunging waterfalls, you will enjoy yourself so much among the charming sights as to linger on with no thoughts for home.

The local people of Jiuzhaigou Valley call these lakes ‘Haizi’, meaning little sea in Chinese. Jiuzhaigou Valley has a total of 108 “haizi” of varying sizes and shapes, but of invariant limpidity to the bottom of the lakes. Some of the lakes are hidden in the valleys, and others inlay the virgin forests. On sunny days, algae and sediments at the bottom of the lakes send out colorful lights. The lakes, thus, have gained another name call ‘Wuhua Hai’, meaning ‘multicolored sea’ in Chinese from the locals.

A beautiful local legend has it that a very long time ago, there lived a beautiful and kind-hearted goddess in the mountain east of the Jiuzhaigou Valley and an industrious and chivalrous god in the mountain west of the Jiuzhai Valley. As time went by, they fell in love with each other. One day the god presented a big and shiny divine mirror to the goddess as a token a love. The goddess reached out to take it, but she was too exited and nervous to hold fast the mirror. Hence, the mirror slipped from her trembling fingers and dropped to the valleys, breaking into 108 pieces. The 108 mirror pieces turned out to be 108 winkling and glittering crystal lakes of different sizes, covering the land of Jiuzhaigou Valley.
With an elevation of 2,000-3,000 meters above the sea level, the area enjoys a favorable climate that is cool in summer while immune from the cold wind of the winter season, presenting the beautiful scenery all year around. In spring the ice and snow begin to melt, and water and stream begin to flow and mountain flowers blossom. The soft and lazy spring sun kisses the surface of the lake and the spring shoots. The sight is really refreshing and touching. In summer, Jiuzhaigou Valley is overshadowed by green trees. And the silver waterfall expresses their most unrestrained feelings. Autumn is the most splendid season in Jiuzhaigou Valley when colorful leaves and woods are reflected in the water and the fallen leaves are floating amidst the shinning waves of the lakes. The sky here is vast, clear and blue. The most beautiful scenery created by nature is right before your eyes. As winter comes, Jiuzhaigou Valley becomes quiet, serene and poetic. The mountains and forests are covered by snow, and the waterfall and lakes are crystal clear and jade-like. The ice on the blue lake surface shows wonderful and different lines as the temperature changes between sunrise the sunset..
Map of Jiuzhaigou Valley
Generally speaking, Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic Area is mainly composed of three valleys arranged in a Y shape: Rize Valley, Zechawa Valley and Shuzheng Valley. The Rize and Zechawa valleys flow to the north and meet at the centre of the site where they form the Shuzheng valley, flowing north to the mouth of the valley. For one-day tour in Jiuzhaigou Valley, usually, it is suggested to visit Rize Valley first, and you’d better start from the Primeval Forest, then tour one site by one site downhill. You may take shuttle bus inside to travel between different tourist sites. After having lunch at Nuorilang Restaurant, you may continue to visit Long Lake and Five-Color Pond at Zechawa Valley, then proceed to visit the tourists sites at Shuzheng Valley.