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First, you take a boat from Ireland eight miles out into the ocean. At a tiny island with two steep hills, you climb up 600 ancient steps. At the summit, there is a cluster of stone huts around a small garden area. This is the monastery at Skellig Michael, where a few monks at a time lived completely isolated from the rest of the world from the 7th to the 12th century. Yes, you can go there if you like, or just read more about Skellig Michael, and see more pictures, at Atlas Obscura. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend
Yes, that’s right a volcanic plug. It sounds dangerous but at this stage in its life, Taung Kalat poses no threat. A volcanic plug (sometimes called a ‘neck’) is formed when magma, on its way up through a vent on an active volcano, hardens inside the vent. While the volcano is active this could well lead to the mother of all explosions and it would, you have to admit, be a shame if this beautiful monastery was to be catapulted in to the stratosphere. However, the volcano is thought (perhaps we should say hoped) to be extinct.
(image credit: Flickr user exfordy)
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