It is often the case that I will be browsing the internet or some other form of media when I stumble across an image of a place or something that I literally don't have a clue about. This happened to me tonight when looking on a popular image blogging website when I discovered a set of pictures, of which the most striking was the following:
Welcome to the Nyiragongo Crater on Mount Nyiragongo in the centre of Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo. If I told you that the crater is 1,300 feet deep then you should get some sense of the scale of this natural wonder. Apparently no human being had ever survived a trip to the edge of the lava pool until 2011 a feat that is truly beyond words in terms of bravery and technology (think of the high tech equipment that must have used!).
The fact of this article is though, that had it not been for the wonderful internet I may never have known, or have a much more delayed knowledge of this amazing geographical feature. Upon further reading I found that there have been huge eruptions here in recent memory: 1977 and 2002 being the notable ones.
I will aim to make this article a regular feature because I really am always finding pictures or snippers of information that I know initially nothing about and I feel that after I have done some basic research I should share the knowledge and see if anyone else is as amazed as I often am!
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