Best 10 Scary But Beautiful Remote Places – Trip to Middle of nowhere

Planet earth is full of mysterious, scary but beautiful remote places. These places are mostly located into the middle of nowhere. Some of them are situated in the oceans and some of them are on the land. Having a date on a remote island is a unique experience into itself where no one is there to hear your voice but trees,birds, waterfalls and floating water. So lets have a virtual trip to the exciting world of middle of nowhere. you can turn this trip into the real one later.

10. La Rinconada, Peru

La Rinconada is known as the “highest” city in the world, and it is this stunning geography that makes it so desolate. For sheer inaccessibility, few locations in South America compare to La Rinconada, a small mining town in the Peruvian Andes. It is Located around 17,000 feet above sea level.

What is exciting about La Rinconada ?

The city is situated on a permanently frozen glacier, and can only be reached by truck via treacherous and winding mountain roads. Just reaching the city takes days, and even then altitude sickness, combined with the shantytown’s deplorable condition, means that few people can handle living there for long. Still, the town is said to have as many as 30,000 inhabitants, almost all of whom are involved in the business of mining gold, which is extracted from beneath the ice inside nearby caverns.

9. Easter Island

Easter Island is located some 2,000 miles west of the Chilean Coast. It is relatively small, measuring roughly seventy square miles in size, and is today home to around 4,000 people. Due to its extreme geographic isolation, many people assume that only the highly intrepid traveler can get to Easter Island. In fact, the island is accessible by regular commercial air service to Hanga Roa, Chile (IPC), and tourism is the main industry of the island.

What is exciting about Easter Island ?

Easter Island is extremely small and it is famous  for its remarkable isolation in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. The island has become well known for the massive rock sculptures called Moai that dot its beaches. They were carved sometime around the year 1500 by the island’s earliest inhabitants, and it has been said that the massive wood sleds needed to transport them from one place to another are a big part of what led to the almost total deforestation of Easter Island.

8. Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Australia’s some places are listed as a place of the middle of nowhere but even to Aussies, Cape York presents a remote and forbidding frontier. The region has a population of only 18,000 people, most of whom are part of the country’s aboriginal tribes, and it is considered to be one of the largest undeveloped places left in the world.

What is exciting about Cape York ?

The northernmost tip in the country is reached along corrugated 4WD tracks that will rattle the teeth loose from your jaw. You’ll find the cape approximately 1000km from Cairns, which means days and days of driving, including crossing creeks inhabited by estuarine crocodiles. For your reward, you’ll find a rocky headland and, well, not much else. Now the only thing left to do is to turn around and clatter your way back.

7.McMurdo Station, Antarctica

McMurdo Station is located in the South pole of the earth. Antarctica needs no introduction to get listed into world’s best Scary But Beautiful Remote Places and Mc Murdo Station is situated just into the middle of nowhere.

What is exciting about McMurdo Station ?

It is Located on Ross Island near the northern tip of the continent, the almost perpetually frozen station is a center of international research, and is home to as many as 1,200 scientistsand workers during the warmer summer months. It’s one of the most desolate locations on the planet, but although McMurdo is as far from a major city as any location in the world, even it is no longer as backwater as it used to be. Trips by boat to Antarctica once took months, sometimes even years, but McMurdo’s three airstrips have helped make the region a much less remote destination than before.

6.Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia

Whether you call it the Empty Quarter (Rub al-Khali) or the Abode of Silence, the largest area of sand on earth is, well, rather empty. Covering an area of the Arabian Peninsula that’s larger than France, Belgium and the Netherlands combined.

What is exciting about Empty Quarter?

The desert covers some 650,000 square kilometres .It also has sand dunes as high as the Eiffel Tower, rising to more than 300m in height and stretching for hundreds of kilometres. And while the Eiffel Tower remains firmly rooted in Parisian soil, these dunes can move up to 30m a year, pushed along by strong winds.

5. Pitcairn Island

The Pitcairn Island, which is the last remaining British territory in the Pacific, has a standing population of some fifty people, many of whom are descended from crewmembers of the famed HMS Bounty. Pitcairn Island is a tiny speck of land located nearly dead in the center of the southern Pacific Ocean. Its closest neighbors are the Gambier Islands and Tahiti to the West, but even these are several hundred miles away.

What is excitingabout Pitcairn Island?

In 1789, the Bounty was the setting for a now-legendary mutiny, when crewmembers enchanted by the idyllic life of the native Pacific islanders overthrew their commander, burned their ship in a nearby bay, and settled on Pitcairn. Today, the descendants of those sailors mostly make their living off of farming, fishing, and selling their extremely rare postage stamps to collectors, but even with modern transportation they still remain one of the most isolated communities in the world. There is no airstrip on the island, and getting there from the mainland requires hopping a ride on a shipping boat out of New Zealand, a journey that can take as long as ten days.

4. Olkhon Island, Russia

Travel on the Trans- Siberian Railway as it skirts Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, and you appreciate the place’s remoteness – about 3½ days by train from Moscow, and three days from Beijing. Containing around 20% of the world’s fresh water, the lake also contains Olkhon Island near its midpoint. Around 72km long, Olkhon is Baikal’s largest island, and by some climatic quirk it’s said to get more sunny days than the Black Sea coast, even as the rest of the lake and its surrounds mope beneath heavy cloud.

3. Kerguelen Islands

Kerguelen Islands is also known as the “Desolation Islands” for their sheer distance from any kind of civilization. The islands have no native population, but like Antarctica, which lies several hundred miles south, the Kerguelens have a year-round population of scientists and engineers from France, which claims them as a territory. The islands do have something of a storied past, and since they were first discovered in 1772 they have been visited by a number of different biologists and explorers, including Captain James Cook, who made a brief stop on the archipelago in 1776.

What is exciting about Kerguelen Island ?

There is no airstrip on the islands, and to get to them travelers must take a six-day boat ride from Reunion, a small island located off the coast of Madagascar.

Today the island is primarily a scientific center, but it also holds a satellite, a French missile defense system, and even serves as a sort of refuge for a particular type of French cattle that has become endangered on the mainland.

2. Motuo County, China

1. Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha island is the place which is located in the middle of nowhere and was first discovered in 1506 by a Portuguese explorer, and was later annexed by the British, who feared the French might use it as a point of departure to rescue Napoleon, who had been exiled to nearby St. Helena. A small group of British, Italian, and American settlers began living on the island in the 1800s, and it is still under the U.K.’s jurisdiction today.

What is exciting about Tristan da Cunha?

The single most remote inhabited place in the world, Tristan de Cunha is an archipelago of small islands located in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The nearest land to the island is South Africa, which is roughly 1,700 miles away, while the South American coast lies at a distance of about 2,000 miles. The islands now have a total population 271 people, most of whom are descended from those original settlers and make their living as farmers and craft makers. Although the island now has some television stations and access to the internet via satellite, it is still the most physically isolated location on planet earth. The island’s rocky geography makes building an airstrip impossible, so the only way to travel to it is by boat.

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