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In the world there are many beautiful bays and simply amazing in their the beauty of the beaches. However, the “Glass” bay of Vladivostok is special in many respects, it is incomparably unique and also fantastically attractive.
Can you imagine a beach of multi-colored glass, which created sea waves from fragments of various bottles! This is it Vladivostok’s “Glass”, as its locals call it, and tourists. And those who at least once visited this bay, remember her forever and on occasion tries to return to this charming glass beach. No coincidence last year the British edition of the Daily Mail devoted an entire article to him, calling a real phenomenon, a fabulous kaleidoscope of endless glass, sparkling in the sparks of the sun and diamonds of the sea spray.
The uniqueness and fantasticness of “Glass”
The uniqueness of such a glass beach in the first place is that it was the result of a solid waste landfill, which arose near this bay in 1967 and, ultimately account, grew into a huge landfill of 15 hectares in area. We reclaimed this landfill only in 2011. For half a century landfill history time and sea waves did their job by turning bay shore to this colorful beach, so beloved today vacationers in the Far East.
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The Weirdness of “Glass” is that similar the glass beach is still in the American city of Fort Bragg, and it arose exclusively also, that is, due to the dumping of solid waste. But it’s not even surprising, but the fact that that dump in Fort Bragg was reclaimed in 1967, that is, exactly when Vladivostok created something similar. Like the capital of Primorsky region of Russia took over the baton from the American city in creating glass beaches through landfills. Interesting in 2011 when Vladivostok landfill was reclaimed, no one in the world has not created a bottle dump near the coast? Relay race I think it’s necessary to transmit …
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And finally, by analogy with the glass beach at Fort Bragg, The “glass” of Vladivostok is intensely pulled by tourists and local handicraftsmen who make all kinds of glass jewelry in high demand. Americans for example tourists and locals have long been banned from stealing their unique glass beach, which has become a landmark of the city. Do you think Vladivostok’s authorities will do the same, if not now then in the future?
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Nobody knows this, especially since specialists, for example, Vladimir Rakov – a scientist responsible for the ecology of the Primorsky Territory, sure that over time the glass beach itself will disappear: the glass is simply frayed by the waves and sorted into “sand”, and because there is no point in protecting all this: the sea will take it anyway his …
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I wonder why the Americans guard their glass beach from tourists and accomplices? Maybe because they want to see him in as a city attraction as long as possible? Wide apparently, the Russian soul simply does not understand this …
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