Unusual location of the Month: Jellyfish Lake

Unusual location of the Month: Jellyfish Lake -

Palau is an island in the South Pacific and is often overlooked for Fiji, Bora Bora, or the Cook Islands. That makes a big Palau making it for a nice, nice looking and peaceful tropical island. But more importantly, Palau has the amazing Jellyfish Lake. Jellyfish Lake is a lake-lake is on Eil Malk island in Palau and Palau is probably most famous attraction. Every day millions of golden jellyfish migrate across the lake. While they do this, you can go swimming with them!

Jellyfish Lake about 12,000 years old and is a remnant of the last ice age. About 12,000 years the sea level has risen to the point where seawater began to fill the Jellyfish Lake Basin. But when back walked the glacier, there was no place for these jellyfish or other fish to go. This isolation of the species in the lake allowed to develop on their own and become a unique species (Darwin would be proud!). For this reason it is lost in the lakes this jellyfish can swim their stingers. Without the need for them, they have lost their ability to sting, so you swim healing. The jellyfish in the lake live on algae, which are connected with them. Twice a day, swimming the jellyfish in the lake from one side to the other, so they live algae they can grow from.

Snorkeling in Jellyfish Lake is a popular activity for tourists to Palau and there are many tour operators here. Tourists need a passport to Jellyfish Lake access. The Rock Islands / Jellyfish Lake Pass is $ 35 and is valid for 10 days. You will spend hours to swim with these creatures as they travel from one side of the lake to the other. While Palau might not be one of the biggest destinations in the region, this lake is Palau's great goal. , Do not expect to be the only one here to swim

diving tourists in the lake is not allowed for two reasons: First, the bubbles from scuba tanks can jellyfish harm if they gather under their bell. Secondly, at about 15 meters below the surface, there are high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide, which can be absorbed through the skin of a diver and death.

If you are looking to do something different, try having a few million jellyfish go to swim. Most of the jellyfish in the world and stand as they are beautiful creatures, you can not really go swimming with them. But here in Palau, gives nature a chance to get all entangled without being stung.

P.S. - If you are like me and enjoy cool and unique places in the world to visit, read my "unusual places" category more about strange places to read in your journey to visit.

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