Snow even at + 35 ° C: Buluus beach, where ice has not melted for thousands of years

It seems that you will not surprise anyone with beaches: whether it is snow-white sand or large pebbles, from which you can build towers. However, there is one unique place on our planet - an ice beach.

Buluus Beach is about an hour and a half drive from Yakutsk. In the local language the name is translated - "glacier". This place has become especially popular in the era of social networks: people come here to take unforgettable photos in swimsuits against a snow-covered glacier.

Buluus is spread about 10 kilometers and is a glacier several meters thick, which does not melt even in the hottest time of the year. The reason is very simple: despite the fact that the summer here is very hot (the temperatures here are almost the same as in the resort cities of Russia), it is very short, the ice does not have time to melt at all. In addition, the beach is in the permafrost zone, so that the earth additionally cools Buluus. Nevertheless, the scorching sun heats the beach well, forming picturesque depressions on it, and sometimes even entire ice caves.

Buluus is located right next to the lake of the same name, thanks to which, in fact, the beach appeared. The lake is fed by underground keys, and some of them are hot. Because of this, the pond does not completely freeze even in winter, and the water turns into ice gradually, solidifying in layers and pushing out another layer one after another. So the glacier in the context resembles a snow-white layered cake, and some of its layers are very ancient and did not melt for several thousand years.